How hard English teacher is!!

Is it common for university students to do part time job in the U.S. ?? In Japan, it's very common to do it. Almost all Japanese students have some part time jobs or have done them before. Among the students, these kinds of jobs are very popular, restaurants like McDonald's, tutors, and temporary jobs just for one day like advertising something new (cell phone, food). In my case, I have two jobs. One is teaching English as a tutor, and the other is working at Starbucks coffee. Both of them are very interesting and worthwhile!! I love them.


Today, I will talk about my tutor job. I started it last September, so I've taught English to my student, who is a junior high school student, for 15 months.The occasion I got the suitable job was that my professor asked me to teach English for EIKEN(英語　検定　eigo kentei) which is one of the world's most widely administered language tests, and also popular in Japan as a official exam to his acquaintance's daughter.

Immediately, I answered "Yes!", I started to go her house to teach English for its 2nd grade test. At first, I taught mainly grammar and vocabulary to her, after that we tried some workbooks that was made an examination in the past. Her English skill dramatically improved, and in last January, she passed it! And also, I passed pre-first grade exam at the same time!! We did well, especially my student, I think.Now she is challenging to pass pre-first grade, so we are struggling with EIKEN together.


By the way, I go her house in once a week so far.But from next month, it's going to change the date into twice a week . An hourly wage of 1500yen, I teach English to her for 2~3 hours. Her house is close to my apartment, so it's easy to go. I really enjoy this part time job!!