The MONDAY Life!!!!

Monday morning… The afore phrase is one that makes 70% of the youth grumpy. I mean, why not? After an activity packed weekend, all the parties and jams as well as church and even a sports game or leisure activity on a Sunday afternoon, it sure will be an exhausting Monday morning.

            But… the Monday morning of the second week in the 1^st semester of our 3^rd year in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology was highly exceptional. So it had been a load of pre semester stress over the weekend coupled with our own fun packed activities. We were really not expecting one boring morning lecture and ‘manna did fall’.

            We had our very first lecture on the course, Food Additives. Yh… I know that doesn’t guarantee much but wait till you meet our lecturer, Mr. John Barimah. He’s a man most probably in his early 50’s short and dark in complexion. That’s about all I can give away. He is one funny man who hasn’t the slightest idea how much he cracks people up just being himself.

            Putting his comic nature into words seems impossible but let’s just take it one a time. He walks into the class and in his bid to psyche us up for the semester, starts off with some tips on learning "'Baba’ is the first point of learning", he said. ‘Baba’ is the short form of a local jargon 'to chew something Baba'. It is basically when one chooses to cram up information to reproduce instead of understanding.

            On the usual, a lecturer will insist on you understanding but the truth of the matter is, most of the time, we usually get the information into our heads then upon further meditation you get understand. The wit of the quote is; it happens to be  funny in reality.

He as well devised a strategy for picking students to answer questions. I call it the ‘throw ball method’. He gives a miniball to his teaching assistant to throw in any direction and whoever it lands on the answers. There was a point where one ‘victim’ was not ready to answer hence told him to 'go and come'.

He took few steps up the aisle and came right back saying he was back. We couldn’t just hold back our laughter.

The benefit of his lecture technique was overlooked by many of us till the end of the class. We basically just kept contributing and enjoying the lesson. We wouldn’t however forget these words 'Memory is the ability to encode, store, retrieve and retain information'.

Credits:
Dilys Max-Voy

Jesse Baidooh

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