Friday, August 14, 2009
English class I
Well I held my first English class on Monday. I was suppose to have 3 adult students at 9am Tuesday morning and 3 teenagers on Thur evening around 7pm. Hers what really happened. By 945 am Tuesday morning no one was there, I texted one of them and she said she wasn't coming because her mother in law was in town. Funny thing is I thought that was why she should come because she had a babysitter. No idea what happened to my husband cousin they never answered, and my neighbor who is the third person showed up at 10 and apologized that she had slept in. She asked if I had plans that day and if she could still come after a shower. Sure no problem I said. Why not shes my only paying client today, plus I like her and have been trying to get to know her more. So after her shower and in the middle of me making banana bread she came over. The class was a little distracted by the bread making but not to bad. She said it was very helpful and she looked forward to next week. Yeah my first happy English student. Thursday didn't even happen apparently the teenagers are all still at the beach somewhere. lol Maybe next week is what their mother said. Ahhh love Mexicans.
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Are you teaching out of your home then? My husband has suggested I do this, but I'm not sure how to begin.
ReplyDeleteHow classic that almost no one showed up! Better luck next week. ^_^
yes Im teaching out of my home, its actually the only way I can teach right now. Most places require a Bachlor degree in something then a 3-4wk course in Guad and a test. Plus we would have to have babysitting. It works out great this way. My husband has been encouraging me to do this since we moved here but before now I did'nt feel Id be able to communicate well enough in Spanish to them. So I only charge 30p a person which is way cheap here in our town. You'd have to ask around for you area at the schools.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm teaching conversational English. Unless they have specific questions we are not going to go to much into anything else. But really its what they need the other classes don't teach it.
We started with the alphabet and a Hi how are you conversation. Ill post about my next class after I have it. I actually don't have the material ready yet.
Hehehe... On Mexican Time!!! LOL!!
ReplyDeleteYou gotta love it, and hate it!!!
Glad you had 1 student though!
Congrats on starting! And you're offering them a great deal on lessons. I started private tutoring as well this summer, but I go to my student's house so don't have the problem of not showing up. Plus, if I don't show up, I'm not paid. :)
ReplyDeleteIf you need lesson ideas, let me know.
YAY to you for keeping the "roll with it" attitude-taking what you can grow from -from this experience--if they wanna be there, they will show up, and if they don´t wanna be there, you don´t want them there either, the battle isn´t worth it, even for 60 pesos--are you charging 30pesos/person/hour? Some of my favorite "teaching" moments were in my "clases particulares" and a lot of those times, I was the one being taught...suerte!
ReplyDeleteAlice-Thanks Im sure in a few weeks Ill be writing because I will have run out of my own ideas. lol
ReplyDeletedisfrutando- yeah we are only charging 30-40p. This is a little more than what others who are teaching out of there house charge but is way cheaper than the official classes.Its depending on the class and how much they already know. My degree is nursing not teaching so I dont feel right charging to much.
Hi again, :) I came up to this post to comment on one from back in June (so you'd see it.) It was one of your posts about going to church and having trouble with the language and your husband translating and getting frustrated. And I just wanted to say thank you thank you again. My husband and I tried for months to find a church that would work, and in the end we were SO frustrated with each other and the whole thing - mainly only over ME and me not understanding and my husband being to shy to translate during service - that we stopped going. And I've felt crappy ever since you know? We need to try again, and like you said about no matter what you get out of it at least you'll be in the house of the lord - I need to go into it with a whole new attitude. Maybe I won't understand much but I'll BE there and more important my husband will be there and he WILL understand. I don't know why I ever would have held him back from that. So thank you, thank you, it's a pretty big deal, thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your first class! I think it's great that you can work from home with the babies. Bummer about the sucky clients... but it can only get better. congrats again, momma!
ReplyDeleteDreamer-Thanks, I look forward to having more students. I actually like doing it a lot.
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