Rewarding My BEL130 Students

Not so long ago, I brought my BEL130 students to Cafe Pauh D'Layang in Hotel UiTM Penang for breakfast. They were thrilled, of course. I am glad they were thrilled. Because it's not like I was bringing them to a posh hotel or anything.

These students were rewarded because of their good (I wouldn't want to say brilliant -- because my standard is way too high for them, hehehe) performance for their sketch practice. They were rated by their fellow classmates and I.

To motivate them to really perform for their practice sketch, I have come up with the idea to treat them breakfast at Hotel UiTM with me. They agreed. These students were only given 30 minutes++ to prepare their sketch. Each group should consist of not more than 6 students (smart, isn't it? So that I won't have to treat so many students at one time. *selamat*)

So it turned out that Raja Arif, Azfar Shah, Asyraff, Rafidi, Azhari and Arif Syahrizal won the challenge. So, they were entitled to having breakfast at Hotel UiTM.

The day finally arrived. We reached the coffee house at 9.30 a.m. The boys were excited to start. Before we ate, I asked a student to recite the prayer. I also set the rule that we must communicate in English throughout having breakfast.

So we ate. In the middle of breakfast, I noticed that one of them didn't finish his food. So, I immediately created a new rule. I told them "You must finish the food that you bring to the table. No excuses." The boys agreed. They had to. Hehehe.

Asyraff is a small eater. He doesn't seem to eat a lot at all. He stopped eating when all of us were still busy going to and fro the buffet line.

We talked about many things. Mainly academic stuff regarding BEL130 itself. We also talked about a special cake recipe. It turned out that one of the boys noticed a few icing cakes on display at the buffet line. One of those cakes is yellow in colour. His friend ask "What do you think the flavour of that cake?"

Another simply replied, "Oh...that? Kek jagungla...apa lagi?"

All of us bursted into laughter since we have never heard anyone who bakes corn-flavoured cakes. Come to think of it, have you?

So here are some pictures of us in Cafe Pauh D'Layang.