Something about "Attitude" - 2

Last Wednesday, I had the class in that company again. When I got into the classroom, there was no one there. Then, one of the bad attitude student came in and said, "Sigh, it is really fast for us to have English class again." He said it like he had no other choice. The other one who came after him replied, "Don't say it here in front of the teacher, you can talk about it outside." Then, they just looked at me. I just simply replied, "I have the same feeling." "I don't care what you said." Then, I started doing my job for getting the class started.

All in the sudden, I could feel that they knew they did the wrong thing and they left the classroom without a word. After the class started, I treated them some chocolates which I like a lot because that Monday was my birthday. I just couldn't believe how people can be so mean when they said "You should bring different kind of snack each class." I pretended I didn't hear that but wondered if they really knew what they made me think.

According to what they said last class, we should check the answer of the first pre-test for GEPT in the first hour, I gave them the paper already. They were supposed to finish it and we could have it discussed in the class. Guess what, some of them didn't do it, and the class leader didn't even bring the paper. While I was explaining what "clauses" are, I saw the class leader writing some words on a piece of paper and the one sitting next to him was replying. During the break time, I looked what they wrote. There were 4 sentences, "A: Why don't you look high? B: I don't like it. A: She is talking about grammar all the time. B: I am very boring." --> (I am bored, not boring. I told them in the previous class.)

I felt really bad because they didn't even do the practice when I was doing the activity in conversation. I can still remember what one of the students asked me in the second class. He said, "Just tell us, can you assure that we can all pass GEPT test after we finished this class?" "I can't promise you anything because it depends on how you want to do to make it." I said. I told them that I spent at least 3 hours to study grammar after class everyday when I was in college. If you don't review and study, how can you pass?

I tell all of my students in the first class that learning is a 50-50 situation. I will show you everything you need and put my best effort on my job, and I hope you do the same. If you want to make it 100, you need to take it seriously. There is nothing you can't achieve only if you don't want to do it.