Hmm……really wish you could read my mind so you could know my feelings, pains and worries. Now I’m sure you really want to know what these outpouring of feelings is all about…I cannot hold it in any longer, my stomach is full and I cant help but vomit these feelings ….yes I will, I’ll pour it out. I have endured enough.
It all started on that beautiful day; that day when I saw the white screen in every classroom in my faculty. Yes! My faculty, the premier faculty. Joy filled my heart that I will also be lectured not with marker and a whiteboard any longer but with this very white screen they called projector. Why the joy? you may wonder, you can’t imagine how I felt because friends in other schools always bragged of their advanced level of teaching in their various schools.
That very day, my heart overflowing with joy, I picked up my phone; I called each of them to hint them about the white screen development in my faculty. It seems childish right? Yeah! I even told my parents at home. That was how happy I was with the new development.
Days passed, months passed, I’ve still not seen this screen operate. My lecturers still come to class, lecturing, still, without making use of this screen. I wonder why (hands akimbo). Is it that they don’t know how it functions or its functions? Weren’t they trained on how to use this screen as a tool for teaching? (Sighs)
What really hurt me most is that I see writings on this very white screens; could it be that one of the lecturers used a maker on it instead of the board? No! That is just too shocking to comprehend! How could they? How could they write with markers on those priceless projectors!
My friends now laugh at me, they ask me questions like; are your lecturers not into the 21st century teaching method? Is your school power supply inadequate for it to be in use? If you people can’t manage using white screens why fix it up? Could it be due to financial hiccups? Hmm…. all these they ask mockingly.
What do I do or what can I say? I know they really had my interest at heart for fixing up the screen. Am sure they trying to operate on an advanced level. It really must have cost them a lot. It’s really a good and innovative development
But why! Why! I would be leaving soon and yet, after spending four years in the “first and the best” school, I wont get to see the Projectors come alive, the screens have refused to function. Don’t tell me I wouldn’t benefit from this new development. How do I tell it to my friends that I left without being taught with this white screen? Am so sure they would say a lot….
All I can do now is to keep hoping, hoping that one day these “Screens” shall eventually be given life. yes! Soon! Thank God my little sister is still going to be here, I’m sure she will have the opportunity of being taught with this white screen that I might eventually never be taught with in my faculty. She will tell to me her experience of how it feels being taught with the white screen in function?
You think I have given up? No! No! All I can do right now is just to hope. Yes hope! And keep hoping…. After all there is a popular saying that says: when there is life there is hope.
….the screen I never viewed….
By GLORY BENJAMIN
