Heather - Tutoring - Week 3

Unfortunately, Chomy and I were unable to meet for a tutoring session because she was in a car accident today. She's not seriously hurt, but she does need to go get checked out by a doctor. We're going to try and get together next week. All of our communicating took place over the phone and I noticed that it was much harder to understand her than it was in person. I wondered how that works. Reading Sebastian's blog about tutoring his wife and the exercise with synonyms got my thought processes going and I think I'm going to change things up on Chomy once our sessions resume. She's really keen on reading and summarizing and though she needs work with writing, there are other areas she needs to work on too. I'm wondering if maybe her setting affects her English too. I know her husband isn't really keen on practicing English with her, so maybe her accent thickens when she's home. I don't know. I know that up until the last few years, when I was upset my Spanish accent would flair up even though I was speaking English. So maybe her being harder to understand was also a byproduct of the emotional and physical stress she's under from her car accident. I told her to call me if she needs help getting around or with anything at all. She thanked me and I hope she'll call on me if she really needs help with anything. Well, we'll see what next week brings.