Groan

I had lots of different things I wanted to blog about: our new school schedule, my enormous Yearbook task for the co-op, an article I read about "haves and have-nots," a super cool article & website about hypercars, and whether Kwame Kilpatrick or Jenny and the Lansing Losers is a bigger black eye to Michigan right now.

Instead, I'm going to be miserable & panicky because one of my ESL students, the one who got me the most hours per month, has told my company that it's not working out and she (apparently) wants another tutor. I hate rejection, even for something like this.

The worst part is that I feel surprised, but not surprised. I knew she wanted more formal, grammar-based, more challenging lessons, but I thought she was happy with the more relaxed focus we had going. We'd been reading a book, "Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office," and going over terms & concepts she didn't get. We'd also been going through a grammar book and a book of business slang, but she didn't seem as interested in those. We also spent a lot of time in conversation, which I thought was helpful (my other ESL student and I do the same thing, but now I'm starting to second guess that as well), but I guess was not as professional.

So that's about twelve hours a month for the rest of the year that I've lost, and it really sucks.