Monday morning-translation class
Before taking attendance the Professor says" Rama..is she here?? Which caught me off guard as I thought I might’ve done something wrong!!? but it happened to be that he had a packet for me from one of his graduate students, Noura!!!
For a moment I could not recall who that was, but then remembered… ahh..Noura!!! :) How thoughtful…what could it be..I was anxious to see but thought it better to wait!
Noura is a very bright and kind girl I got to know last semester in my previous translation class. She is a graduate student and has offered at that time to give our class a lecture on “Translation in Media”, which is the course’s title. She did a good job!
Coincidentally, at that time, I was taking a mass communication course and my research paper was involving translation in media, specifically advertisements and movies. Hence, her presentation had rather valuable information and sources that I thought beneficial for my research paper. Having spoken to my professor I got in touch with her and she was very helpful indeed! I saw her around a couple of times before we left for summer.
Two weeks ago I happened to bump into her at my professor’s office with whom we both are again taking a course with!
And so it happens she had material on translation and interpreting amongst her notes that she remembered me with. Knowing that they would be of interest she has piled them together with a little gift and a note asking the professor to give to me in class :)
At that moment I thought at how rare yet nice it is when someone remembers you with something, that even though is small, comes out truly genuine. It was very thoughtful and kind of her to do what she did! And a much unexpected thing to receive early morning!
I think, at often times we tend to forget how meaningful and powerful small nice genuine gestures can make a big difference! It puts me at rest knowing that people like her still exist in this chaotic individualistic society we are living in! :)
2 comments:
On the other side, she must have been touched that you were truly interested in what she was doing. Compassion and empathy sometimes do find their way around :)
Thanks for the good/timely reminder... small things really do make a difference!
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