Never-ending Knowledge

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Going into this experience I was crapping my pants. Being a freshman student going into college for the first time. Not doing so well on the placement test was the catastrophe that landed me into English 091. So my dad already being pissed off at me, I go into the class knowing my parents are disappointed only for myself to become disappointed that I was required to drive to Chandler every Tuesday which is like twenty miles away from my house. I was mentally infuriated but I had to maintain a smile because first impressions are everything. After I mentally calmed down I realized this could be an opportunity to brag about tutoring underprivileged immigrants. When I put it that way in my mind it made my heart grow three times its size kind of like the Grinch. My expectations were not what I originally thought, my thoughts and ideas worked sometimes, and other times they didn’t, and some of the thoughts I had I would like to discuss to improve the next group of tutors.
When I was going to my first tutoring session I was jittering with fear. I thought that if I couldn’t speak Spanish then how in the world I could communicate with these foreign people. My expectation going into the tutoring session was I walked through the door and a dozen eyes instantly beam into my soul. Which so to speak was kind of true. Every single eye did beam into my soul but in all of the students eyes nervousness was present in their eyes as well. I felt it like Luke felt the good within Darth Vader in Episode VI. It was a big sigh of relief to know they were nervous too. First impression is everything like I said before so when I was assigned my student I made sure I walked up with a smile on my face and introduced myself with a handshake to show that I’...

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...ter I would recommend only having one student per tutor because then the tutor would receive a better connection with the student rather than once tutor doing all the work with student and the other just hover in the background and chime in once every ten minutes.
In all this tutoring session was life changing and it really touched my heart knowing that I helped a person older than me experience the rest of their life here in America much easier. I could not imagine coming from the USA to another country and having to go to a foreign classroom and get bombarded by a bunch of little foreign rats. I really do look up to the bravery that these immigrants had to gain in order to make that leap into a new world just to live a better life. I was nervous at the beginning of this experience but un the end I am glad that I had this opportunity and I will forever cherish it.

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