New Partner

I haven't blogged in while because my partner kept canceling on me due to doctor appointments. About a week ago, she had a friend call me to explain that she could no longer continue in the program and that she did not call because she could not explain herself. Anyway, I was assigned a new partner, Gerardo, who I met with on Wednesday. He was sweet natured and eager to learn. I told him for the sake of time, as he had brought things to work on, that we could quickly introduce ourselves. I told him I'd lived in Texas my whole life and that my major was Journalism and English. He told me that he'd worked at TCU for 16 years and loved it and that he took care of the flowers around campus. Then we discussed what he wanted to work on during our sessions. He had told me on the phone when we set up a time to meet that he wanted to work on verbs and reading and writing. I found some websites that have verb worksheets and grade them instantly that we might work with in the upcoming weeks, but he had brought a list of verbs to work on and a book that he had recently bought. Like I said, he was eager to get started. We went through a list of verbs that I explained what they meant and described as far as actions and usual meanings and usages go, and he wrote the equivalent in Spanish so he could study them later. That took up most of the time, as it went by quickly, and I skimmed some of the exercises he had begun in his verb book. Then it was time to wrap it up, having almost finished the list of verbs he was working on learning, and we agreed to finish the list next week, as well as start to go over the exercises in his book. Overall, it was a great first meeting, and I feel like we accomplished a lot. I'm looking forward to working with him in the future weeks. Stay tuned.