One of my co-workers was marking me against the criteria for the qualification, he said the presentation can be of any length and any topic. So of course I done it about the "basics" of Sikhi.
Some of the people I work with are very opinionated and quite clueless about other religions and faiths; including Sikhi. They had never heard of a Sikh before, all they knew was 'some people' gather outside the temple when it's someone's wedding and wake the rest of the street up with that big drum.
I only had about 5 slides on the presentation showing pictures of 5 kakkar, Singhs & Singhnia in Bana and Dastaar and about Sikhs in British history.
My colleague who was marking me was a very typical fat, aggressive, ex army man, smoked too much and didn't look at religions lightly.
All in all I only spoke for just under 10 minutes. My colleagues just could not stop looking at the pictures and kept saying how interesting and great the Dharam is. They really wanted to know more but we didn't have enough time. My colleague who was marking me said that it was the most interesting presentation he had ever seen/heard (bearing in mind he did not like the concept of religion, at all) and that he would save the presentation and show his students, every time he got new ones - even though it had absolutely nothing to do with his curriculum! Dhan Guroo Nanak.
If you also notice in the above picture there is a Khanda made out of wood on the wall. I turned up to work one day and saw that my colleagues had made it out of wood and painted it. They didn't tell me about it, but it sits nice and proud at the front of the classroom. They didn't put up or make any other religious symbols!
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