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Tutoring has its side benefits. I was the lucky recipient of a culinary goody from my Ukrainian student.
She baked this savory pastry with onions, potatoes, and chicken and brought it to our session this morning, which is at 11. I couldn't get home fast enough for lunch.
She said it's called kobete, and that it's Tatar in origin. It was a fairly large square and she gave me the entire pastry. Mr wtg and I split a quarter of it for lunch and I shared another quarter with some friends.
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Tutoring has its side benefits. I was the lucky recipient of a culinary goody from my Ukrainian student.
She baked this savory pastry with onions, potatoes, and chicken and brought it to our session this morning, which is at 11. I couldn't get home fast enough for lunch.
She said it's called kobete, and that it's Tatar in origin. It was a fairly large square and she gave me the entire pastry. Mr wtg and I split a quarter of it for lunch and I shared another quarter with some friends.
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@ShiroKuro It is quite delicious!
How goes the tutoring?
It's going well.
My Ukrainian student is quite advanced. We continue to have conversations and I help her with a little bit of everything, including grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Many of our conversations revolve around food and cooking! I baked a loaf of sourdough bread for her and her family a few weeks ago. The next week she asked for some starter so she could bake her own at home; apparently her kids wolfed down the whole loaf I made in a little over a day. She's really gotten into it and is baking her own at home now, though she needs a fresh infusion of starter. She transferred her starter to a glass container other than the Mason jar I had given her, and unfortunately when she was feeding the starter the container broke. She said it just had a round hole in the side of it. She had to throw out the starter for fear of glass shards. I'll bring her a fresh batch next week.
My Japanese student is also progressing well. We were doing some verb flash cards last week and that went very well. She learned a lot of new vocabulary.
The ESL and Literacy staff are really great. There are three people in the department. Each month, one of them does a session on teaching ESL students. They cover general topics and also provide a lot of information about online resources.
All in all, it's a great experience!
