high school confidential

today was a really amazing tutoring experience. everyone was on task and got an amazing ammount of work done during the session. from watching laura, i could see it was going the same way for her. maybe the fact that report cards came out a week before had something to do with it...whatever it was, i'm all about it. the kids are becoming a lot more open and less defensive now that we've been at it for awhile, and it's also been fun to watch them make friends over the school year and settle in. when we first started they were still in the new and awkward stage...and so were most of us, i suppose.

so i tried to talk an esl teacher into letting me do a class observations....i had almost convinced them to let me do it but at the last minute they changed their mind when i moved to "close the deal" as they say in sales training. i shouldn't take it personally...after all not everyone wants to be observed. but that means i am gonna have to hustle up another one, and soon.