I started 6 private English lessons this week and have added one more for next week. So that means I will be up to 7 total lessons and hoping to add at least one more. This puts me at 8.5 hours of work a week. Really with all the prep time it equals a lot more, especially because I have to put so much work into my prep (because I don’t know what in the world I am really doing).
The classes seem to be going pretty good so far, thanks to the handy website www.onestopenglish.com I just print out the worksheets and walk them through it. The hard part is when they don’t want to do worksheets. Then I have to create lessons, which take more time and have more of a potential to bomb, but so far so good. I just keep smiling and telling them that it takes time and practice and that seems to put them at ease.
So, my just under two months without a job has finally come to an end. The nice thing is that none of my classes are before 2:00. So I still have time to sleep in, work on my Spanish, and do a little reading before I head off to work. The bad part is that some of my classes are at 8:00 p.m. This definitely cuts into my night life J
Kristyn starts classes at an academy this week and she will be working the evening shift usually from 4 or 5 until 10:00 p.m. This doesn’t make for the greatest of schedules for us to see each other but we are hoping that after Christmas break we will be able to re-work some of her hours. She will be working one-on-one with students studying to pass certain tests in order to further their careers. The nice thing is that it doesn’t really require any prep work because she just walks them through a computer program, the bad news is that it is every night of the week. So our hang out time is at a premium.
But we have jobs and we are finally making money. Who knows, this adventure might actually work out after all.
