Currently I’m working in a School from a little village called San Esteve de Sesrovires, near Martorell and Castellbisbal.
All Mondays I have my first class with the older students. They are 9-10 years old (4th grade). Last Monday my pupils saw my little and old mobile phone. (Note: My mobile phone doesn’t have camera, Whatsapp, mp3; to sum up, doesn’t have Internet) When the kids saw my mobile phone they were surprisingly shocked. They said to me something like this; - Bibi! Really this is your mobile phone? – Another one asked – without Internet? But, if you want to check your Facebook or send a Whatsapps to your friends, how do you do this?
The situation was really funny because the children the XXIst century can’t understand that people are able to live without mobile phones or better said, without smartphones.
Some other girl asked me with some compassion, "Do you want this mobile phone?".
Then, I answered all the questions of the kids, one by one, "Yes, I like my old mobile phone and I don’t want, at the moment, a smartphone. And also, if I want to check my email, Facebook or to send a message I can do all this at my home with my computer".
All my students looked at me with a incredulous face, there eyes were very opened and they were really flipped out. Maybe they were thinking…"our young teacher doesn’t have a smartphone but our grandmas have one, mmmm..she is really strange". :-)
At last a little girl said to me, very happy "Bibi! Do you know what? I have got a smartphone!"
I thought "Well, perhaps I have got a “sillyphone” but, I love it because it's lightweight and small, I can call, receive calls and furthermore, this mobile phone has a flashlight and an alarm clock! And with all these things I don’t needs anything more".