michael pollak

ghana 2014 – tag 12

Finally we kicked out one of the teacher who was late every single day. I took over his group and had a lot of fun explaining the guys networking equipment. The last week they just read wikipedia entries and tried to memorise that stuff by heart, it was really awesome to see them understand finally what they’ve read. I unplugged one of the Cat 5 cables, let them count the wires inside after stripping an old cable, explained them why they are drilled in pairs and so on.

I really had a lot of fun and the guys are starting to get the hang of it. They now know what it is about, and I hope they will remember those lessons for every other thing they have to learn. Learning is understanding.

In the break between our workshops I had Michael Y. and his students give me a lesson in weaving techniques. They actually created a learning unit for people to learn how to weave, and this day we took all the pictures. Was fun to learn new things and esp. with a good teacher like Michael I was able to take a few ideas from his teaching style.

Nachdem einer der Lehrer konstant zu spät gekommen ist, haben wir ihn endlich aus dem Workshop geworfen. Ich hab daraufhin seine Gruppe übernommen und den Jungs Netzwerktechnik erklärt. Für mich war es faszinierend zu sehen wie die beiden endlich Spass an dem Thema hatten, nachdem sie sich eine Woche mit grauer Theorie und veralteten Büchern geärgert haben.

Zwischen den Workshops hat Michael Y. mit seinen Studenten und mir Fotos für ihre Dokumentation gemacht, und mir dabei gezeigt wie man webt. War auch absolut witzig.