Service Hours 3 and 4

Not as anxious this time, I arrived early and began my lesson plan for my next student. S.H. was also from Egypt like my first student. He was a very nice man. During our chit chat period I learned that he worked at the Tyson meat factory. His wife was actually being tutored at the same time across the room. Afer I learned that he had been in the States for about 7 years, the conversation died off once again. I could tell he felt a little uneasy because he started to open up his book when he had ran out of things to say. The tutoring session went great. He was a hard worker and he took notes and make corrections. He strugled with some vocabulary. He kept getting words mixed up and he would forget the definitions of words. What was cool though is he understood some humor.For example, like I mentioned earlier his wife was across the room. Our story was about a couple. The man liked to watch tv and didn't talk very much and the wife was described as a very talkative person. One of the queswtions for comprehension was asking the reader (S.H.) if he is talkative or quiet. He responded I am quiet, but then he pointed at his wife and with a smile on his face told me that she loved to talk and made a hand gesture that was conveying a mouth opening up and closing. We had a good laugh about it.

Once again for the second day in a row, my second student did not show. I learned later that he was a clerk in a small grocery store and it was robbed while he was there. He had to talk to police that day about this incident.