17 November: Today was only RF. I have to admit, this is much easier to deal with than two people to tutor. At any rate, today we accomplished getting his diagnostic passage recorded in the Global Learning Lab. I think work is really draining his energy, as well as his assistance in navigating life with the other five guys. He doesn't seem to be doing much, as he was supposed to be working with a workbook he had which I thought was quite good, on his past tense constructions. We were going to go over them and talk about any patterns that were evident or find out what misunderstandings were becoming clearer to him. I will find a way to work with all of this, although my schedule is positively grueling right now. It won't be long before I am able to do more tutoring - I hope. Again, I saved the recording as an audio file and will burn it to a CD later. I do like the sound quality so much better. We did spend quite a bit of time talking, as he seems to want that interaction with a native speaker, as his goal is to sound as much like me as he can. I can see he is determined, but I don't know how much of himself he is giving to this when he is doing so much for the other guys. He always wants me to correct him with his verb tense issues, and he seems okay with that. Again, he and the others are concerned that I am getting nothing out of this and I assure them that the experience in tutoring for me is as valuable to me as my time tutoring is for them. I think he was unsure at first, but I think he is okay with it now.
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