With the excitement of the concert and the STAR tutoring session this afternoon, I totally forgot it’s time to turn the clock back an hour: end of daylight savings time. If there’s a single day that I have to vote as the most depressing day of the year (not considering other factors) I would say this is it. Even though I gain an hour today but the sun will set around 5pm today and will progressively set earlier and earlier till mid winter before it goes back the other way. I prefer long summer days where the sun sets at 8.30pm or later.

Well I went for my first STAR tutoring session today. When I signed up, I didn’t think that it would start so soon and adding this to my calendar is sort of overwhelming at this moment in time…oh well… Anyway I have to do one-on-one tutoring for about 2 hours every other Saturday. On STAR days, tutors have to be there before noon, have lunch with their tutee(s), we had chicken fingers, cheese pizza, french fries, and cookies, and then go on to the one-on-one tutoring.

My tutee, Barbara, is an eleven year old 6th grader. She’s very independent and pretty much did all the work without much help from me. She was working on her Math homework and she has to determine, via mental mathematic, whether a certain number e.g. 2332 is divisible by 2,3,5,9 and 10. It’s been a long time since I had to crank up that part of my brain!