will you learn me english?

so i just my first student. it was the beggining of what i hope will be a profitable venture into the land of private english tutor-ville. although i must say, it was a bit strange. my first students' name is Damien. he is a fourth year engineering student, who wants to pass his english certification in march.

lessons were not quite what i had expected them to be. i spent last night preparing, looking in english grammar books, and preparing a lesson. which we never got to. which is fine. i knew that since i didnt know his level of competence in english i would probably have to wing it, but we didnt go over anything that resembles a lesson. he just wanted to talk. good. that makes sense. if you are hiring a native speaker, it must be because you want to learn native speak. pardon, i mean native speach.

so i just talked to him for an hour. now i am not as bad as others in my family *cough* *allie*, but i hate small talk. i have always been horrible at it. there is a level of selfconciousness that comes with having nothing in common with the person you are talking to that makes me feel, well, selfconcious. but here i am the hired professional for small talk. to i gotta. because i am charging 50 zloty an hour for my casual conversations here. which is around 17 dollars i believe.

now charging someone for the pleasure of my company feel odd. as if i were some strange phone sex operator that didnt even talk dirty to you. conversations about school and pop music, of which i know nothing about, for only 28 cents a minute..... please stay on the line..........

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by the way, feel free to point out spelling and gramatical errors. i didnt check it. no need to. i am the expert here.