Alyssa B - TS #18 (Last Tutoring Session) - Dasom

Tutoring Session 18

Date: August 13, 2017
Time: 1:00pm – 3:15pm
Area: Starbucks

Tutee: Dasom Kim
Level: 3B

Today was the last day I would be meeting with Dasom before she goes back to Korea. It makes me really sad that she won’t be coming back. It’s very depressing, especially since I’ve had thirteen tutoring sessions with her, each one more than an hour, most lasting at least one and a half. We worked on some reading, worksheets, and vocabulary, but spent most of the time practicing her speech with the same material I used to help Yao with her SPEAK practice. I honestly wasn’t planning on staying as long as I did, considering I didn’t get much sleep (video games…) and I had to tutor Yao right before this, but going over the speech practices was mostly about her opinions and her field of study, etc. One of them asked her about her dream house—it was extremely funny. I can directly quote that she wants a big living room with a huge television, a big reclining couch, two-stories, five bedrooms, a pool, a bathroom with a big tub and big windows to see the scenery, haha. The funniest part was that she wants to have a big television right above her bed on the ceiling so she can lay down and watch TV!

              We had a really good time, and her answers are very creative and funny. I should have kept in mind that tutoring doesn’t always have to be work, work, work; it needs to have some fun incorporated into it.

              I’d like to think that Dasom has improved since our first session. She’s been extremely tenacious, from our first session being the very first week to our last session being after school has finished, and we met three times a week for more than an hour every single time, altogether resulting in 21 hours and twenty minutes altogether! Including Yao’s tutoring time of eight hours and thirty-five minutes, that totaled to 29 hours and 55 minutes! I’m pretty impressed!!!

              She leaves for Korea Wednesday morning, so I had prepared a small gift for her. It was a cup from the Starbucks we always meet at that says “Florida”, just so she doesn’t forget. QnQ I really am sad that I won’t be able to see her or tutor her again. I learned a lot from tutoring her, and hopefully she’s learned a lot from my tutoring and I was able to contribute to her experience here in America.

I'm out for tutoring. T-T

~Alyssa