Zoe TP #1

My first session with my child tutee went surprisingly well! Her name is Rina, she's 6 years old, and her family just moved to Florida from Seoul a little over a year ago. What's funny is that her older sister's name is Zoe, too! What are the chances of that?

I spent about half of the first meeting getting to know Rina's family. Her and her sister are both into soccer, and her sister is a green belt in tae-kwon-do. I actually used to be super active in tae-kwon-do myself—I even made it all the way to a second-degree black belt (not that I'm bragging) (okay, I'm totally bragging). Rina's mom told me all about their travels around the U.S., and I gotta say, I'm a little jealous! They've seen more of the states than I have, and I've lived here for my whole life!

Anyway, her mom told me that she just wants me to help Rina with her homework and help her improve her English along the way. Luckily for me, Rina already speaks English very well! She's also pretty good at math, which I can definitely appreciate. The most difficult part of the lesson was trying to explain the difference between "they're," "there," and "their," but she actually understood what I was talking about! I came up with the sample sentence, "they're watering their flowers over there," and drew stick figures to illustrate the idea. I then drew another stick figure and wrote "Rina" above it, and that's when Rina took the pencil, drew another stick figure right next to it, wrote "Zoe" above that one, and wrote "FRIENDS" underneath the two stick figures. It was probably one of the cutest things I've ever seen! I'm really looking forward to the rest of our sessions!