Work Notes, part II

My notes for today's presentations:
"member of [the] basketball team"
"do you have any plan[s] tomorrow?"
"I will cook Chinese food tomorrow; do [will] you try some?"

Work Notes

I'm at work, slacking off while they're working on the Chinese portion of the class. Yes, it's all completely over my head and no, I can't follow it even if I try. Yes, I have tried.

The first thing I do every day is work with two students individually on pronunciation. To practice this, they read a passage that either me or the teacher picks out. Here are my notes from that practice, 'cause I think they're interesting. They follow:

O idea - idear X
O area - arear X

the =
thuh/thee - X thah X


four
whore

OO originally synthesized tunes
XX originarry synsesized tyunes

Part-Time Job Interview

I had a kind of interview today for a job teaching English. It went really, really well, as far as I can tell. By "really, really well" I mean to say that I think if she didn't have someone teaching the class right now, she would've had me start right then and just start teaching.

Unfortunately, the reason she wanted to find a replacement for the current teacher is because he's leaving in December. With me leaving in March, it's too short a time to be worth the trouble of getting all the paperwork done. She said she'd keep me in mind if she needed a class covered or something since my visa allows occasional, random work. We're just not allowed to enter into real, contractual jobs, I think.

As an aside, I originally had some strange ideas about how it might go since I thought she was interviewing me at her apartment, but it turns out that she just runs the school there. She was fairly pretty, and I understand she has a daughter my age, as well... (Included for the sake of my ever-lecherous father who "wants some grandchildren already, damn it."

She said since I didn't have any experience, she'd only be able to pay me about $25 an hour, plus transportation fees. I wouldn't mind an extra $100 a week in return for getting more practice with Japanese. It is not to be, unfortunately.

Alas.

Tutelage

I just did my first lesson as an English tutor-ish person and it was... boring-interesting-frustrating-difficult?
The guy apparently was in a rush to get this one document translated, but didn't say anything about it until we had about 20 minutes left. By that, I mean the shop we were in would close and they would kick us out. I did my best to beat some sense into the English. Anyway, I apparently did a good enough job that he wants to do it again. Won't get to until next week, but... Eh, $15 is better than nothing and it's not like I have anything better to do.