Last night I started a new job as a tutor. It’s a not quite bad experience, I had a good time with my student, or students would be more accurate since there were his two classmates joined in. I cost one and a half hours to arrive the destination, then I was surprised that there are three students waiting for me, not one!! I supposed the rest two is my student’s classmates because of their same school uniform, but I can’t figure out who is my “employer” , I walked to them and said hi, the tallest one said to me"u must be the teacher" and I got my answer, he introduced his two friends to me and told me both of them will go to his flat as well cos they also wanna attend the private class, I agreed it with pleasure.
After about a quarter we got to his place, the accommodation he rented is kind of a loft, there are a desk, a wardrobe, a cabinet and two beds, it’s quite tousy, but never mind^_^, that student seemed quite embarrassed for the tinpot furniture, and I tried to let him know I thought it’s great. When we started our class, I found the rest two were not interested in our class at all, I sat with Pan(the student's name), taught him some English grammar, and they just kept making noise on the bed, yes!!! On the bed!! A male student and a female student, they covered themselves with quilt, and kept laughing all the time!! Compare with them, Pan is very serious despite he is really not good enough at English and geography, like when I asked him which is the capital of the USA, and his answer was New York, and then the capital of the UK could be Paris, (btw,he'll get into college next year!!)but I’ve already known his level is comparatively low or he needn’t to employ a tutor, so I didn’t have a big surprised about it, and I am sure he is quite content with my job since he remained a modest attitude and a slight smile from beginning to end, during the break, I had a short nice conversation with them, actually they want to make their study better, but it seemed they don’t fancy their teacher at all, then they got little interest to listen to their teacher carefully. I suggest it should be a problem about how teacher deals with students successfully!
We didn’t continue our class too long, Pan got a cold, so he hopes we can end this class earlier, and his naughty classmates left at nine, thank god they finally end the stupid questions just like “why your noise is so long” or “why your eyes are so big”!! I just hope next time when I arrive here, they’ll not come since they didn’t have any interest on study at all!! We went to sleep at half past nine, it’s quite early but I’ve been a little tired as well, so it’s nice! I left there at 6:30am this morning with Pan, he went to school, so did I !^_^
The street that my student lives is called “ nv ren jie”, which means “woman street” . That place is very near “wu ma(five horses) street” which means it’s very far away from my campus, but considering the pay is not bad and Pan is nice boy, I decided to remain my job. The next teaching time will be next Tuesday, let’s look forward it!!^_^
To Be A Tutor
Posted by Wayne at 22:10
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hope everything goes well,Wayne,it's hard to be a tutor,especially when u need to deal the finance with their parents.
I can imagine how awkward it could be when some of the students became distraction. For the bright side, you would probably earn experience about how to adapt into the working environment.
Anyway, happy to know that you didn't give up this job, and good luck with that ^_^
thank u for your support,Fiona!
yes,Elwin! it's not only awkward now!! it's totally terrible since there is not even one book in his flat, can u believe that? and i've taught him three times,all the materials we used are all from mine,even if i've informed him thousands times bring his books back so that we can continue some more practical exercise,he didnt do that as what i said at all.now i know why some guys can do a good job,some ones just keep failing.
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