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[twistedimp]

After my long absence, I come to you with more tales of tutoring.

On Wednesday, I was working in the ESL lab. One of the students was on the part of her paper where we discuss grammar. Note, I am a tutor, not a proofreader, so I don't actually get to tell people how to fix their grammar. Instead, I get to use a variety of teaching tools that

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[thegiftofdeath]

I have been lucky enough not to get an ESL student so far in my tutoring career (yes, all six weeks of it). I have also been told that, if the occasion arrises and it is too hard to make a connection, I can refer the tutee to one of the specifically-ESL tutors.

But, I am still terrified, because my boss has started doing evaluations and she's planning to observe the newbies first. And I just know, naturally, that the session she decides to observe is going to the worst possible one ever.

Shudder.