Personal Narrative: My Future Tutor

Everyone has their own kind of sacrifices for better or worse. Sometimes we offer these sacrifices as a means to provide protection or some ray of hope. Tutors are known to be educated in whatever subject they tutor in as well as being extremely patient. Though some do it for free or may charge a fee, it always comes down to how much effort they put into each session and ultimately the result. I remember a particular event during sophomore year of high school, I offered to tutor a young freshman girl named Misha. At first glance I didn’t find the her to be troublesome since I had some experience from past tutoring. She wasn’t one of these cases though. I sacrificed my free time to tutor Misha who I later learned was a visual learner who also made me become hesitate to tutor others in the future.
I met Misha when I overheard her talking about failing almost all of her academic classes during Technical Theatre. She had a bad habit of last minute cram session with no understanding whatsoever before a test or quiz. …show more content…
For example, Geometry was a maze to her, like solving angles within a triangle within another triangle. I would tell her to work from the inside to outside. After explaining step by step and assisting her along the way I created a similar problem for her to do by herself. Misha stared at the made up problem with a blank expression. She proceeded to tell me, “I don’t understand any of this.” Then she looks up at me expecting me to do something to solve this crisis. So I decided to explain again and before I knew it this was the regular routine in our session together. I grew frustrated and confused about Misha lack of understanding, or perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. Around almost a month of tutoring I decided to change my game plan while figuring out why she couldn’t wrap her head around anything we