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I started to make good on what once I had planned doing. I used to think that being someone who teaches means being sure completely of one's confidence to know the lesson. It would be a shame not knowing the answer to something or answering wrongly. But then again, no one can be that perfect in their first time. Everyone got to start from somewhere. My first time teaching (or what should be more compelling to be called "tutoring"), I was shaky and not sure what I was doing. In my experience, it is the student who should do more asking. I was supposed to be there only to provide answers to questions he might have had problem with, so I was rather caught off guard when he said he didn't know what part of the lesson to learn. It was rather thrilling for someone who barely knows how to keep a conversation for more than a minute with everyone. At the same time, I didn't care if I screwed up my first time because let's face it: this is my way of learning to be a lecturer someday, which is what I have been yearning to be. I was glad I brought my TOEFL book with me so I had him learn a thing or two about grammar and error recognition. I only hope this could be somewhat something that I would be grateful to remember doing.

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