Remembering names II

I am embarrassed. To put it mildly! Here is the thing:

Two weeks ago all the teachers at our school were informed through the intranet that the school would be receiving some students from Sweden and Finland in the coming week. So we were all warned: in fact we were encouraged to welcome our visitors in a special way, and make them feel at home.

Tuesday, my students returned to class after a week in Rome (most of them had been there on a school trip). In class I noticed that one of the students had got a haircut. But I could not remember her name! I felt so ashamed, since I had made such an effort to actually know all the names. But I just couldn’t find out the name of the girl!

Only half way through the session I realized: The girl was one of the visitors from Finland, and wasn’t one of my regular students!

To further make a fool out of myself, when two other students showed up for my next class it took me almost a minute to figure out that these were Swedish visitors!

So, if anyone was in doubt about my lack of ability to recognize faces and names, this should be another sad proof.

(The picture is from Cambodia - just some beautiful faces of children I can't remember the name of...)