Ryan TS#6


    I’ve hade my third tutoring session with Amnazo and her family the other day. Like the last session it was just her and her sons. However it differed from the previous lectures with the introduction of my tutoring partners with the IRC, Anisa and Saadiyah. They introduced themselves to Amnazo and her sons and, together, we helped them with their alphabet memorization. While they were practicing, we discussed possible lessons we could give the family and what materials we could use to aid us in our lessons. We also met Omari and Kiza’s friend from the neighborhood, Christian. He joined us in our tutoring session and he was incredibly well-behaved and payed careful attention to our lessons, probably more so than Kiza and Omari. As for Anisa and Saddiyah, they were nice and I kind of wish that they would join me in tutoring more than twice a week.

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