Nickie TP2

Karen at the Leon county library found someone for me to tutor, yay! She classified him as a "high beginning level learner". He's a 44 year old man from South Korea named Chae Hyeong Park. He is a professor in his country, and came to the US to study education curriculum development. I explained to him my schedule restrictions, and the fact that my certificate course will be ending next week, so my trips to Tallahassee are limited. I asked him if he'd ever used Skype, and he was unfamiliar. Luckily he had his laptop with him and was willing to try. I grabbed my laptop out of the car while he was setting up Skype on his computer. We tested a video call while at the library and he was thrilled. He's very uncomfortable with talking on the phone, and I explained this will be much better, and good practice for him, since we can use visual ques. We discussed a little personal information and schedules, as well as his personal goals with tutoring sessions. His main issue is with basic conversation, speaking & listening. He's also concerned with professional writing. I explained that I will be doing quite a bit of traveling over the next month and I'd be happy to tutor him via Skype and email.  I look forward to our sessions on Skype, and we will be meeting in person next week as well.