first tuition
i had my first one-to-one tuition class today.
and boy, it started out disastrously.
school holidays had already started but the teachers are required to be back at school for training for 2 days. and the training lasted from 9am – 4.30pm. so after the training, i was really tired and i reached home at around 5.10pm. tuition is at 6pm and well, i thought i had about 20 minutes of quick nap.
i never expected myself to doze off well past 6pm! i only woke up at 6.15pm when the dad of my student called up to confirm if i was going. what an embarrassment! of coz i didn’t quite mention that i dozed off 
on a more positive note, the lesson went quite well. the little korean girl was such a sweetheart. she said her please…excuse me…thank you in the sweetest and most polite tone.
there was this very funny incident we had. i was trying to teach her some simple vocab as i have yet to gauge her mastery in english. and well ya..i was going through the alphabets and i asked her for examples of words starting with the letter ‘C’. and she gave me a word..”cool”. i thought it was cool for her to come up with the word and i tried to link it to her.
“that’s a great word..”cool” are you “cool”?”
she gave me the most horrendous look and started shaking her head.
“No! No!”
i was puzzled. it was when she pointed to a picture of a cow that i finally understood what she meant! i burst out laughing on the spot. it was just so cute and funny! she had pronounced the word wrongly and there i was trying to say she is “cow” or “cool” or whatever.
teaching is so fun 
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