Rachel McDonnell TS#15-16

For my last hours, I Skyped with Dojun. We read three more pages of Norwegian Wood by Murakami. This involved me reading a sentence aloud and him utilizing his listening skills to write down what I said and then utilizing his speaking skills to repeat what he had written down. He would then ask me to define unfamiliar words and then he would summarize what was happening. The book contains rich vocabulary and I defined terms such as boomerang and sheer just to name a couple.

Kenneth Bright TS #16 (!!!)

For my lest TS i met up with Mohammad and his lovely wife Ezra (if i'm spelling that correctly) at the tropical smoothie on magnolia avenue. Ezra is studying architecture and interior design here at florida state starting in the spring. we talked about a variety of topics including mohammeds resume, undergrad at FSU and the pomegranate smoothies that he and his wife got. i am very grateful for mohammed being available to meet with me and help me meet my quota. i was also very glad to help him with his essays and statement of purpose essay.

Kenneth Bright TS #14 & TS #15

For my 14th TS session i met up with mohammud at Starbucks again and we went over his resume. He had gone to the career center for advice on his resume and they actually gave him some pretty substantial advice. We went over how to start working on that and then we moved onto other things regarding his resume and application to grad school. We also talked about various topics regarding saudi arabia, america, and how he hates miami (same).

For my 15th TS session i had another skype session with do-jun. we talked about korean hanja names and the unique and sometimes volatile relationship between north and south korea, we talked about the popular variation of billiards in korea known colloquially as 4-ball. he also gave me some movie recommendations that i am very much looking forward to checking out featuring one of my favorite actors son kang-ho.

Rachel McDonnell TS#13-14

Ahmad and I met at Bread and Roses and, upon his request, I brought short stories that I had written. I know this sounds self serving, I was not up for it, but as we have become friends this was the reading material he wanted. I brought two of them, but we only finished one. This was fun to me, because I had already been in workshops for them and received feedback, which I was able to share with Ahmad and we got to talk about plot and numerous devices that people use in fiction. He admitted to me that his preference for reading is research papers, but that it was fun to read my novice fiction.

Rachel McDonnell TS#10-12

Ahmad and I met at All Saints for coffee and we together read and analyzed research papers regarding computer privacy. This is his field so it was interesting and he already had the schema for it and this prompted him to go into great depths about the topic since this is what he is passionate about. This helps his speaking skills. He needed little error correction, though I provided it when necessary. I learned a lot in return. Again, I believe our discussion based tutoring sessions are level appropriate, especially since he is attempting to begin courses next semester.

Kenneth Bright TS #13

For my 13th TS i had a skype chat with my new friend Do-jun! we talked about all sorts of things including  Do-jun's brief singular trip to america, he went to seattle. we also talked about korean movies that we had seen and kioran music that we knew. I told him about how Alaska is a very depressing state and that he shouldnt try to live there. We've organized a 2nd skype chat for saturday at 8m eastern.

Akira - TS #16

This was the last tutoring session with my mom. I decided to test her reading comprehension a bit by reading some articles, but she understand the topics just fine. After that, we just worked on verb usage and good sentence structure. Overall, these tutoring sessions taught me a lot of how to be flexible and take different approaches whenever someone is struggling with a concept. These past 16 tutoring sessions will be helpful for my teaching skills in the future.