November 12, 2008
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Troubled Tutor
So this is a really weird story between me and my tutor. I had my accuplacer test for college recently but it just happened to be on the same time as my piano lessons, so I called her to reschedule my time for later. She seemed a pretty cranky when I called her but she was saying that she has to have a lesson that week because it is the first week of the month that she needs to be paid, money is tight. I understood entirely but we always pay her in full and on time, sometimes earlier if she asked, so there was no reason for her to seem irritated about her pay. I emailed her later telling her that she was being a bit rude on the phone, we would happily pay her, like we always do and if something comes up in my schedule then we will work things out.
I no longer have the e-mail she wrote but what she generally said was that I am being really dishonest because I didn’t call her Friday afternoon when I said I did. She also said that I don’t treat her like a person and that she would like to break off all contact with me and my family? I thought to myself, ok because in the more recent days she has been so rude.
As I look back over the whole tutoring with my reading, math and now my piano lessons. I did most of my reading work, I did my math work though I was very unenthusiastic about it but with my piano lessons I was so pumped to learn until she said “uh, I’m going to kill you” under her breath (assuming I wouldn’t hear) when I didn’t remember all the notes, half-notes, rests, half-rests with their counts and the note lines for both treble and bass clef which killed all my enthusiasm. I haven’t given up on learning piano at all; I just don’t plan on learning it with her.
I thank her for helping me though certain subjects, though I apologize for some of the times I didn’t finish my work because of stress. I would not want to remain in contact with her because she seems generally troubled and I can do nothing about it.
