Monday, October 5, 2009

My First Day of Tutoring <3

So, after sitting forever at the freezing bus stop waiting for the G line bus toward Briarcreek with no success, I decided to take a chance and ask the bus driver of the G bus toward Bookercreek if his bus stopped at Phillips Middle school, and of course, he said yes, meaning I had just waited 45 minutes for the wrong bus. Yay me! But, I was still really anxious because the driver seemed hesitant when he told me yes, so I waited nd waited, and finally another teaching fellow going to the same school got on the bus! I was instantly relieved, becasue since she had been the week before she knew all about the proceure to sign in the school and everything, I was really lucky!

When I got to the school, I signed in and made my way to the class. After our class filed in, they wrote their names on the board under the sibject they needed the most help in. Unfortunately, most of the signed up for Math, which is my leats favorite subject. I buckled down, however, and began tutoring a seventh grader named Malik. He was working on subtracting integers, which I am actually knowledgable in, so I just made up problems for him and we workd out the issues he was having with integers. Thankfully, he was alot like me in the sense that he did not really care why the math worked like it did, he just needed the rules and went to work! Over all, it was a pretty successful first day of tutoring and I cannot waitto go back tomorrow!

1 comment:

  1. Uhh buses are so confusing! The other day my friend and I waited forever for the wrong bus and finally the right one came. The doors opened and my friend said, "Let's just get on in the back because it's closer." We got on and the bus driver yelled at us because he said the doors could have shut on us and killed us. Then, he yelled at us again for standing near the exit. It was sooo embarrasing!

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