About me

Who am I?

Ritesh

I am Ritesh Dharampal, born in 1998 in Paramaribo. I love the nature very much and like to cook and swim. I went to the primary school at O.S. Commissaris Simonspolder school at age 10. From then I moved to O.S. Tout Lui Faut school, where I graduated as the best student in the year 2000. I went to the Shri Ram MULO school and graduated in 2004. After that I went to Mr. dr. J.C. de Miranda Lyceum, where I stopped with my study in 2008. I was in the last class and decided to go to work, because of the financial issues. I had made my exam, but failed to pass after a second chance. It became difficult for me, because I had to skip a test in order to go for an interview.

Suralco (Precipitation)

After a long period of tests I was selected to work for Suralco L.L.C. I began as an apprentice in 2008

and graduated in 2010 as Process Operator 1. In those years I learned a lot about the bayer process and also about my work. Every thursday, we had to go to school to learn the basics. I worked in the department Precipitation, and soon I worked in the control room. After one year working I was able to do my work independently, also in the control room. I worked in shifts, like 8.00-16.00/ 16.00-00.00/ 00.00-8.00. Sometimes we had to work overtime to solve the problems.

In the year 2010 I began again with my school at Avond HAVO and graduated in 2011. In 2011 I began to go to PTC, course Electrical Engineering. I got my pre-propadeuse certificate in 2012. In 2014 I stopped with school because of personal issues.

In 2013 I got married with my love. In 2014 I began with IOL, ICT in Education for my further study.

In that same year our son was born. In 2015 Suralco stopped with her production and so I stopped working there. In that same year I began my teaching career at SMO as a ICT teacher. From there also, I gave lesson at HHS Dependance in the last quarter in 2016.

IMEAO 5

In 2016 , the beginning of schoolyear, I began at IMEAO 5 as an ICT teacher.

Why do I want to become a teacher? 

Why not a production worker?

I want to reach out to students, who give up their study for any reason. In my life route I had to go trough many hardship, that I even had stopped with my study. But here and there I got motivated by friends or situation. I have been a student, who had to struggle and work hard for better performance. In the students nowadays, I see myself. In order to ease their path to knowledge, I like to motivate them, to show them the pitfalls. Finally, no one must stop chasing their dream, no matter how hard or difficult it is. 

"You never fail until you stop trying." - Albert Einstein