Teaching about meal

When you are teaching about different meals in a day, it could be quite easy in town. Students will get the meaning just by listening to the words but it is totally different in rural here.

The don't understand the meaning of "breakfast", "lunch", "teatime" and "dinner". For them, whenever food is available, then it will be a meal. They don't differentiate every meals with a name like we do. We are just too luxurious. Parents send their children to school because school provide food under "Rancangan Makanan Tambahan". If not for the sake of food, they rather let their children help in the farm and earn more food.

A girl in my year 5 class always keep half of her RMT food in her bag. No matter what it is, either an orange or bread, she'll just stuck the food into the dirty little bag. Tried to teach her to get some plastic to wrap the food but she never cared. The half is for her sisters at home. That half might be the only meal for her sisters if their parents come back empty handed on that day.

It's kind of pity but that's the fact here. Remembered a boy in Nando's Restaurant, KL cried loudly in the restaurant because he don't like the taste of food. It became so ironic in my mind now.

Appreciate what we have now. We are much luckier than other peoples on the worlds. Every bits of food we had is a blessing. So, thank for it.