This post birthday week heralded what is to come this summer. It’s been quite quiet. I am only working as usual about 2 to 3 hours for VIP kid and the rest of my time is made up Of my private lessons with Katya, Karolina and of course, Felix. My Dutch client at the English Center has gone on vacation until September. I do have a client for pre-intermediate English and that starts this evening. It was on my schedule from Friday and since I have no returning students I’ll be able to teach what I’ve been teaching for the last three sessions. That’s if the student Who has already paid decides to take it Now, and not wait until there are more people for the course.
In terms of private lessons, Katya is going to go on vacation for the summer so Last night was our last lesson. She is starting to improve her pronunciation of words in English which is the main focus of what we do. We work on word stress as well because sometimes that is quite difficult. I have given her a homework assignment as she is going on a camping trip for three weeks. I want her to write and talk about the things that she Saw and did on her camping trip. I hope that she manages to do it I also hope that I see her once school picks back up in September. I think she is currently being homeschooled by her mom. We will have to see.
So that leaves me with just Felix and Karolina and of course, the slim Pickens a VIP kid for the summer. I had thought to go to Greece and do my lessons from there, but I have an appointment with the Greek embassy in the Hague to renew my passport. What that means is that my passport will be in Greece without me for about seven weeks before the new one comes back. It’s not such a huge deal except that I don’t want to travel in Europe with an American passport. I am afraid that the Netherlands would not let me in on my American passport. I am a Dutch resident because of my Greek passport. So I think that my travel plans are going to have to be put on hold until I actually get my new Greek passport. That’s OK. The plan is to do some traveling within the Netherlands. The first stop was a visit to Jasper’s aunts on Sunday. It takes an hour and a half each way and I stay about two hours. This got me home in time for my zoom coffee with the other VIP kid teachers in Europe.
In the writing world, the critique group has a new member. She is a friend of Jasper’s cousin who is also in the group. We are now six and will see how we proceed. I will say that sometimes we don’t get much critiquing done as we get to talking. I’m going to have to be better about managing time. Luckily I have until week after next to figure it out. The Thursday night group is not meeting because the bookstore where we meet is currently closed at 6 PM. But you know that we’ve been Going to dinner every other Thursday and that seems to work well. I will be very happy when things continue to open up to the point where we can start meeting in person even at the bookstore.
I have also started working for another company called Cambly. The pay is horrible. They pay $.17 per minute to talk to an adult online. They pay weekly into PayPal and you can jump on and teach whenever you want. I think it’s mostly conversation. At least that’s what I Hoped when I opened up hours on Saturday at 8 PM for one hour just to try. We will see how it proceeds overtime. I am also rethinking my preply Strategy and thinking to apply with them once again as well. We will have to see if I can do that from my Gmail account because I let my profile lapse.
That’s all she wrote for this incredible installment. But stay tuned. As always, there is more to come.
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