This Week

   This week, on Thursday, I was working with about six. I was helping the students with simplifying radicals and the Pythagorean Theorem, finding out if triangles were right triangles or not. Right now I'm working on helping some students with 30-60-90 triangles. They are currently trying to learn how to do it, then I'll help the kids who are struggling to understand it.

Starting... Again

I was able to help out three 7th graders. I helped the three boys with elimination and elimination with word problems. It was pretty easy. It actually felt pretty good to help someone else understand something and to see the sense of accomplishment on there faces. 

Complications

   I actually was going to start tutoring this week on Tuesday and go back again on Wednesday, but I couldn't. There were problems with my family and I wasn't able to secure a ride to take me home, so I couldn't go at all. It seems that every time I try to go, something gets in the way and I'm not able to go. It literally sucks.

Finally Starting . . . Kinda

   On Tuesday, after I got out of school, I went over to the middle school during their last period. I was going to start tutoring and helping out, but sadly I couldn't. The students were taking a test on the computers when I got there and I wasn't able to help any of them yet. I did however get to look at exactly what they were learning and had an idea of what I was going to be helping them with. I was going to go back on Wednesday to help out, but I couldn't. There was a snow day preventing me from starting. Next week on Tuesday, I'll go back and hopefully I will be able to really start.

Starting Soon

   Technically, I still haven't started my project yet. I have yet to visit the class that I'm supposed to help with, but I'm starting soon. After we get back from our break, I will be going to my mentors class on Tuesdays and Wednesdays after I get out of school, during the middle school's last period.
   The reason I haven't started yet is procrastination. I have a major problem with procrastinating and waiting until the last minute to do something. I actually do it in a lot of my classes. It's pretty hard to break that habit, but I'm trying hard to break it and hopefully I can soon start my 20 Time Project and actually blog about something.

Finding Time

   So far I haven't technically started tutoring the 7th graders yet. I'm going to ask my mentor today to if I could come to the middle school on Tuesday's, Wednesday's, and Thursday's. I have to make sure that I'm allowed to go into the middle school at the end of the day and I also have to make sure that I have a ride to go home.
   Even after this project is over I hope to be able to continue to come back and tutor some middle school kids because it's good to help other people, and things like tutoring and community service looks good on college applications.

During Pitch

   I didn't like presenting my pitch. I hate to talk in front of people and have a lot of attention. It makes me feel uncomfortable, I'd rather stay in the background, behind the scenes. Having all of those people come up to me ask a whole bunch of questions that I had to answer was not my idea of fun. At least I didn't have to present in front of everyone at one time because that is way worse than about 6 people. Another thing that made it uncomfortable for me was that almost all of the people were older than me, not people in my grade.