8 * 2 = 16 hours

it all began when all those "super" teachers whom i have encountered in my life, all would have been well if somebody would have encounter(ed) them before i met them, then 150 poor souls would have been saved.
Like every story has a beginning, this began on one sad depressed evening, i decided to canvas my parents about the evils of using windows, my dad got so energetic and demanded an outright lesson in using ubuntu.
But my uncle said யான் பெற்ற இன்பம் பெருக இவ் வையகம் , so i was given the idea of preaching linux to "Our kids" (this indian slang of whoever lives nearby, i mean the kids, become "our kids" to elders), so after a few (i mean one) brainstorming session, i decided to wear the teachers hat.
i was thinking or dreaming might be the apt word, to be the greatest teacher in the world, so i requested a few places to give their students a guinea pigs, and to my surprise they all agreed (dont ask how many), however i decided to be volunteer faculty, so NO FEE.
but the truth is the fear of stones if something goes wrong.

so i prepared (trust me, i was not like my exams) for days, examples, documents, presentations etc.. i was all prepared to unleash the full power of gouutha-ism.
so the D-Day arrived, i was armed with my laptop , dresses as appropriately i could, and i did shave for the occation.
and i reached the hall, and was greeted by a "STANDING" crowd, my god, all over my life i never stood up for any of my teacher,(unless they can see through the crowd and kick me for my marks in tests) , all i could see were 2/3rd year engineering kids, threatened with compulsory attendance (and it was taken), in few minutes i could see, half the class wants to go out, so i gave a break after first half hour, a bunch of students were missing, and first rows were "sparsely populated".

next comes the installation, thanks to ubuntu i could prove to them that linux is Not at all difficult.
by the time it was 11, the crowd started to you know.. students stuff, and trust me, i was not in any p0sition to control them, first the guilt feeling, they are not doing anything that i haven't done, and its fucking student life.
so after few lunch break requests, i with a kind heart gave them a break for one complete hour ...
the remaining was not different from above,
however the conclusion is a few buggers did really showed promise, however my biggest fear is they were "first benchers" (as opposed to backbenchers) the eager kids, me being a backbencher all over my life think, we make things better.
a few failures on my part, first not wanting to break their existing setups, that sucked the fun out of installing a lot of applications, and i really could not keep up my promise of showing them a kernel compilation and others,
i know that hose things can be learnt from internet, (as i pointed out to them) lets see ..
i however got some feedback, and i asked the organizers to remove the stupid attendance restrictions next time, if possible.
hmm... hoping for more