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“The art of life is constant re-adjusting to our surroundings” - Kazuko Okokaura After one hour of waiting with no sign of student appearing, i started to frustrate. I was told by another volunteer that there was no student the day before. Someone at the center suspected the reason could be the students are having certification exam for cooking next week and need time for preparation. So our student hunt began. - At first, our program coordinator brought us to another center for teaching English to children. After finding out that it was a private language teaching centre, I refused to teach there and explained to him that we came to Morocco with the objective to help needy people. The admin officer at the language center then passed the program coordinator some contact at a public university nearby. - We visited the university and were told that we could help the students to improve their presentation skills. However, it also happned to be the exam week here so no student was available. The representative from the university then passed the program coordinator the contact of some association. After contacting them, he asked us if we were available to teach there from 4pm-6pm. We quickly agreed as there was no other option. - Leaving the university, we went back to our original placement to check if any student turned up. And bingo, we got three!!! On top of that, the program coordinator told us that our afternoon class was also confirmed. So from having no student, now we ended up having two classes at two different associations to teach. Networking is known to be a needed skill in business but my observation from this half day has taught me its bigger meaning. People were helpful to each other even at the first meeting and for no personal gain. In the following days after talking to more people at other associations, I truly respected how the community here supported each other for the benefit of the community as a whole, especially in social work and learning Before the trip, we sacrificed 5 weekends and 1 public holiday to prepare detailed lessons for the students but when the day came, we realized that no preparation was enough. The students in both our morning and afternoon classes were at very different levels and each day we had new students joining who did not learn lessons from the previous days. To resolve the first problem, we classified students into two groups: beginner and advanced. I taught the beginner group using our prepared materials while my husband had to quickly come up with discussion topics and games for the advanced groups right there. The second problem was a bit harder to resolve. We had to think on our feet during the class to help new students catching up without too much impact on the progress of the whole class. Coming from a very orderly country with efficient processes everywhere, the various challenges in this trip gave us a precious opportunity to practice the adaptability skill of reacting to change, something that I believe is key to survive in life.