Sit Ins

I finally got to sit on some sessions, after three weeks! My first was with Phil on monday, and we had an ENGL 101 personal essay, and I was really almost touched that Phil was doing a good job of making sure that I felt involved in all the decisions and was keeping up with the conversation. Its almost kind of easy to stare off and not really pay attention, or I might have just been super tired. The kid had some good stuff in his essay, I was super surprised actually, and I remember that he was looking to us with such genuine appreciation. I was almost afraid that having two consultants sitting with him would be intimidating but I think he enjoyed it more then anything. We both gave him really good suggestions on how to keep yourself focused and keep the "flow" going. Once the session was over, I felt I had a better grasp of what actually goes on behind those cubiclesque walls.

The next session I sat in on was with another 303-er, we took a walk in that needed a simple read thru for, yet again, "flow". I keep gigglign every time someone comes in and says that, because its like a joke between all of us it seems like that all these students come in and say things like "flow" and what not and really I just want to correct them and suggest something like fluidity or something along those lines. Just not FLOW.
But it went very well, I want to say his name is Ryan? we ended up having him read his paper, tell us how he thinks its should map out and then revising minor sentence issues such as grammar and punctuation. He was an ESL student and I was glad to have that opportunity to get a first hand experience with one of them.

I'm almost looking forward to doing consultations now! It wasn't that bad after all. I just don't know how well I'll do on my own.