Wednesday, August 18, 2004

You Name It!

I have officially got all 29 names of the students of my class in my mind and can say them with a moments hesitation. It took me a day longer to do this than last practicum BUT this class does have more students. It also has more lookalikes too (even though my last practicum I had to deal with identical twins) but I do have the advantage this time of having very few foreign names in the class to get a handle on.

2 comments:

James said...

But, wouldn't foreign names be more distinct and easier to remember? I was introduced to a colleague at work called Shironika. I haven't forgotten her name and I am usually bad at names.

On the other hand, if everyone in the class had an ordinary name, like James, then remembering wouldn't be an issue.

Crypticity said...

Well, one name like that is fine, but if you have many like that it can be a little confusing.

In my first practicum I had: Abhijit, Abhijeet, Nafas, Hakau (who looked like a boy called Rima), Lamon, a Samoan girl whose name was a challenge to say, and now it seems, to remmber, Dwani, Apeksha, Hala, Latika, Yu-Keum and others. With foreign names it is easy to mix and transpose letters. For example, Nafas I kept thinking was Nasaf, Latika or Lakita. The two Abhijit/jeet thing confused the existing teacher too.

They are all very different and harder for the memory to have a convenient name to remember.

With my current class, it was almost all "English" names, although with some double ups (two Jakobs, two Gabbies) and the Sophie/Josie/Rosie name scramble. In those cases it is just a case of getting the name on the right person.