KayYip的中文、普通話、日語、手工橡皮印章的天地

I like to be laid back usually. Because the first 2 years of working period was very busy, that's why I decided to have balance life. It means I need to leave work after working hour. But these few years, seems could not. This year, I am working as editor, it is very very busy during working hour, and after full time work, still have part-time tuitions almost every day. Therefore, my TV watching are cutting. Even dinner should be delaied after 9:00pm. I feel tired and accumulate the tirement, I fell asleep all day in Sat., only Sat is my full time day off. Sun, I have tuition for 3 hrs. 

Though busy, but I am enjoying. I like editing, my company gave me a lot of chance to write texts and editing. However, the rule of the company is a chaos. We have to change texts all the time and it is not change in a good way, we followed stupid boss order to change. I resigned last week, but company wanted me to stay and promised the chaos will be solved. I will keep watching. It is ironic, I want to be stable, but could not accept such chaos.

Tuitions part, I had pressure sometimes. For example, how could I teach some useful methods to students, how could make them improve before exam. I dont like to teach only for exam, but if I want to keep them, I have to serve this part first. One students had the first test after my teaching, luckily, her mark is improved. I feel happy, not for the marks, but it means I could keep teaching her, it is the real helping that I could teach for longer time to make their Chinese more 'solid', long lasting. I feel that now her marks improving is just by luck. If I could not make their marks improve, then I will not have chance to teach them real Chinese and increase their interest.

And it is special to tailor-made a suitable materials for tuition students. Their problem and characters are not the same. For example, even 2 students, their reading and writing are both bad, but one is not so smart, so I made him recite more, another one is smarter, so I could teach new idioms. Last week, I scolded a student as his attitude was bad, didnt do his homework, and I didnt teach but scold for 1 hr, I asked if he wanted to pass Chinese and promote(In HK, if could not pass, then could not promote to upper grade). I didnt ask for tuition fee. I was disappointed, therefore, I scolded and expected he would not take my lesson again. But his mother wanted me to teach one more lesson in week. I turned down, as I believed that if a student didnt want to learn, it is waste of time.

But this week, he changed his attitude, he is more eager to learn. I taught him the textbook, he seemed didnt pay attention in school, but relied on me to tell him and took revision,his test is the end of Nov.. I couldnt expect too much. And I think if no better result, I will quit. This is a core problem that he didnt like and no talent. I just could rely on his attitude, hope he could keep the eager like this week. I found that I didnt really understand the character. I thought he didnt like and pushed by his mom only. But this week, he seemed quite eager to learn.  I am thinking, maybe he has two faces?

Tuition has pressure, but if you are keeping find the ways to help, the way will appear. I always feel pressure to teach a foreign girl Chinese, this is not her mother tongue, common excercises are not working. Therefore, I should create by myself. So I keep thinking. Sometimes, it is working, but sometimes not. I have to spend some money to buy suitable materials and test if working. The result are unexpectable. I enjoyed the success. Tuition give me satisfaction. I learnt a lot from it. And now I think I am understanding what a friend did say, I felt like I didnt know my aim of living, but he said I should keep searching. It is like tuition work, when keep searching, way will be appeared. 

Also I didnt expect I could keep my passion and students for long time, as I did tuition when was young, but that time I didnt do good. Now, I am trying and know the methods more, so the way is appeared. And even students' parents will recommend new students to me, that's why I am keeping busy. I didnt expect this before.