Ryan TP 1

I was nervous about meeting my tutees because it would be my first experience having the responsibility of teaching someone else. I was assigned Habib Kourouma and Stefan Konan, both of whom are from the Ivory Coast ( Côte d'Ivoire ). Of course the first thing we did was to introduce ourselves. They were both pretty quiet which was intimidating, but then I realized that it was up to me to get things started so I just went straight for it asking what they wanted to go over. Of course they said anything, but I was able to get out of them that they wanted to focus on speaking and listening portions of the TOEFL, and if we had extra time, then we would work on grammar and reading to help when they take the GRE or GMAT. In trying to figure out a day to regularly meet we got talking about religion because Habib has to attend mosque on Friday afternoon. It turns out that Habib is a Muslim, and Stefan is a Christian which is common in the Ivory Coast where the people are 40% Muslim, 40% Christian, and 10% local ethnic religions...or so they told me. I also found out through our chit chat that Stefan likes to play sports, mostly soccer, and also pool (billiards), so maybe one day we'll get together to play. It being our first meeting, I had nothing prepared to actually work on so we wrapped up and planned to meet sometime soon.