I had my last observation session with a Biblical named fellow today. The client was a graduate student and in the school of education. The session started out with the typical statement of the assignment and the questioning of who the paper's general audience was. As this was a foreign exchange student, her grammatical structure was kind of funky by normal standards. Halfway into the first paragraph there was a problem with comma placement. The following exchange took place:
Haon: I think there is a comma missing here, but I am not sure. Do you know if you would put one here? (directed at me)
Kass(Me): Yeah I normally would.
Client: (To Haon) Uhm...are you American?
Haon: *Blank stare* Yeah I like America
Client: No no...are you american.
Haon: Yeah I support America.
Me: *Laughing to myself in background*
I guess you had to be there but it came out of nowhere and it was like a slap to the face. Other than that the consultations went well. The client refused to discuss the two readings she had to analyze to write her paper, claiming they would be too confusing for us to understand. Had either Noah or I read the paper I would have had some form of an idea for what I was supposed to be helping develop. We had to focus on eliminating the redundant use of the word "goods" from every other sentence of her paper. However many troubles we had tutoring this woman, I still hope to see her around the center again. Who knows, maybe another funny conversation will ensue.
P.S. I realized that I am driven CRAZY by people who chew with their mouths open
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