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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Sep. 6th, 2012 09:31 pmAbout a month or so ago, I signed up at this tutoring website as a tutor since I wanted to make a little extra money on the side and it seemed one way to find clients. And this one woman contacted me because she wanted to practice speaking English. So today we were finally set to meet in person.
I was a little apprehensive about going to a stranger’s house, a person I’ve never met in person, just talked to through email and text message. I kept joking to Bear about it. But the tutoring company had good reviews – real people use it – and the emails sounded genuine enough. And the address was in a nice neighborhood according to Google. So I wasn’t really that nervous about it. Still, going to a stranger’s house. I did text Bear once I got there, though, as we agreed.
The girl, Valerie, was very nice. She came to America on a trip from Russia and met her husband here on like day 6 and stayed. She’s been in the US for about 2.5 years but is mainly interacting with the Russian community and so she feels a little isolated from everything and she wants to improve her English. Today we just chatted for two hours on the couch of her basement workout/lounge area. We talked on all kinds of topics – food, travel family history. For next Thursday, I think I will email her an article to read that I assign my college writing students so she could get her confidence up that she can handle that type of English too. We’ll see how that goes, but that was certainly a good first tutoring experience.
After that, I came home – it is very easy to get to her house and back, just one bus – I went to the back and actually deposited all our wedding money. It is good not to have checks just sitting in the house. And I went to buy two sympathy cards as two members of Bear’s extended family died a few days ago – separate death. We are going to go to a wake for one of them tomorrow.
Tonight I also cooked dinner of stir-fry vegetable with Thai Red Curry Sauce, rice and hot-dogs. Today is actually our dating anniversary – 14 years. Not that we really celebrated but I wanted to do something nice. Overall, an interesting day.
I was a little apprehensive about going to a stranger’s house, a person I’ve never met in person, just talked to through email and text message. I kept joking to Bear about it. But the tutoring company had good reviews – real people use it – and the emails sounded genuine enough. And the address was in a nice neighborhood according to Google. So I wasn’t really that nervous about it. Still, going to a stranger’s house. I did text Bear once I got there, though, as we agreed.
The girl, Valerie, was very nice. She came to America on a trip from Russia and met her husband here on like day 6 and stayed. She’s been in the US for about 2.5 years but is mainly interacting with the Russian community and so she feels a little isolated from everything and she wants to improve her English. Today we just chatted for two hours on the couch of her basement workout/lounge area. We talked on all kinds of topics – food, travel family history. For next Thursday, I think I will email her an article to read that I assign my college writing students so she could get her confidence up that she can handle that type of English too. We’ll see how that goes, but that was certainly a good first tutoring experience.
After that, I came home – it is very easy to get to her house and back, just one bus – I went to the back and actually deposited all our wedding money. It is good not to have checks just sitting in the house. And I went to buy two sympathy cards as two members of Bear’s extended family died a few days ago – separate death. We are going to go to a wake for one of them tomorrow.
Tonight I also cooked dinner of stir-fry vegetable with Thai Red Curry Sauce, rice and hot-dogs. Today is actually our dating anniversary – 14 years. Not that we really celebrated but I wanted to do something nice. Overall, an interesting day.