My extremely cool school.
Okay, I thought that might be kind of funny. Why? Because I have just been offered a job as an English tutor! At my school! My C O L L E G E school!
Yep… [buffing nails lightly on t-shirt] I will be joining the staff at College of the Canyons this fall. I was recommended by my wonderful English professor, and I suppose I’ve been deemed qualified. Where does the “funny” part come in? Well, it’s just that…um…I don’t know all that much about the parts of speech. I think I was absent that day. I know how to write, I know what works, what sounds correct – but I’m not well-versed in why. The good news? I get training! The better news? I get paid!
On the serious side, I’m very honored and extremely excited. This is a great opportunity to help others while broadening my own skills. A win-win. The job is part-time, and one that I can easily work around my other jobs: mother, wife, housekeeper and, uh, business owner. Oh, and student, author and non-prof secretary. Did I miss anything? How about grandmother?
So welcome me to the world of dangling participles, multi-word adverbials and syntactic units! (Wish me luck.)
Hey maybe you can teach me some English while you’re at it! I can put together a decent sentence but have no idea what the parts of the sentence are called. Congrats!!!!