Tutoring Update - Contacted the Student

I contacted my student today, who was assigned to me by Hawaii Literacy. We agreed to meet at McDonalds on Thursday night to get to know each other. We'll see how it goes. The student is an older guy so I'm not sure how he'll react to a younger person tutoring him. I'm not sure this is a right fit, but I'll go in with an open mind and see what happens.

While I'm not at liberty to discuss him at length, I have to admit that I don't really know much about him at this point. I was told that he is an ordained minister and is interested in learning to read the Bible. I'm not sure how he can be a minister and not know how to read. I'll have to ask him about it. He has had some drug issues in the past so I hope they are resolved. I was also told that he has other health problems.

I'm a little intimidated about meeting him, but I guess it should be okay. I don't really feel confident about being a tutor after only four days of training. It all seems so unprofessional. How can you let an untrained person take control of someone else's education? I know we're just helping them to read, but it still seems pretty weird that we're not trained.

Bible Thumpers Came a Knockin'

Yesterday some bible thumpers came a knockin' on my door. It's not that I have anything against church-goers or worshipers. They're all fine and dandy in my book. In fact, my mother is one of them.

But when they have to go out out and solicit, uhm, I mean do community outreach, I think it's a bit intrusive. You go worship your god over there in your church. You need not knock on my door and proclaim to love the lord on my doorstep.

No, I don't want to join your bible study group. I'll also have to decline your offer of free reading materials. I already know of quite a few locations with free reading materials, thank you very much. They're called libraries.

The bible thumpers actually had the gall to ask if it was only today that I was not interested in speaking to them about the lord or if it was something more permanent, like forever. I chose the latter of course. I don't want to get on their missed opportunities list and have them knocking every other day in order to save another soul. Really, I'm just saving their time and effort as I'm sure there are others out there who would welcome a soul saver.

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