Tuesday, June 2, 2009

For Real.

I was supposed to tutor 2 students namely Yuan Cheng and Dan Dan.
But Oliver volunteered to tutor as well. So Ms. Shankie decided to assign Yuan Cheng with me, and Dan Dan with Oliver.

Dan Dan was shocked when she found out that she's gotten a male tutor. Her reaction was, "Ah, boy ah?" I laughed out loud, even Resh did the same. Haha.

As for Yuan Cheng, he's been smiling since Ms. Shankie introduced us to one another. Sweet boy but I couldn't stand his odour. Very strong smell of cigarette! Yikes. Takpe2, I guess I'll have to get used to it.

So we two discussed, he decided to have 4 hours of tutoring in a week :-
Mondays : 11am - 1 pm
Wednesdays : 3pm - 4pm
Fridays : 11am - 12pm

He's told me that this is his third time doing this paper and has problem understanding passages, what message it's conveying. I'll try my best to help you, Yuan. Hopefully we'll both succeed with getting you to pass the paper.

I've been told that the tutee would have to give out the payment right after each session, and I'm not really comfortable with that. I'd suggest to Yuan that if he gets through the paper, the money that is supposed to be the tution fee, we'd use it to reward him in the end. Maybe this could somewhat provide motivation for him.

Now I will need to dig in my old pile of notes, hopefully I still have them!


Today Ikhwan made a rather weird remark about me, "Harini you nampak cute", being me, I laughed sarcastically and thanked him. In my head I was thinking " Harini je comel, hari lain macam kambeng is it?" Haha gile. Such a sweet boy. Nasib baek budak kecik :P Just Kidding !

Another quote taken from the book, Tuesdays with Morrie, and the reason why I decide to tutor.

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops"
Henry Adams



1 comment:

Oliver K. said...

wow, seems like you've been raking up a lot of comments from "cute guys" or so it seems ;)

wow, a very very motivational teacher i see. payment used as reward. brilliant idea :D. should copy that style from you. muahah.
bye, see you