The Overseas Spoken English Tutoring project at the Raritan Valley Branch continued in August 2020. The high quality of the tutoring service and the positive attitude of our volunteers have earned us a good reputation and attracted more students to us. Simultaneously more passionate volunteers came to join our team. Both the number of student enrollment and the number of the volunteer tutors nearly doubled in August. While many people were sleeping in in the morning or going out with family and friends during the summer break, our volunteers got up early in the morning, rescheduled their personal arrangements, or stayed home on weekends, just to accommodate students’ schedules for the lessons. We know our hard work paid off when we saw the students who were initially too shy to speak in English started to make English conversations and the students who considered English vocabularies or grammars a headache in the beginning became more and more interested in the lesson asking for lesson renewal. Through the lessons, our tutors have benefited and become better and better at teaching as well. The spoken English tutoring project has truly been a positive experience for both the students and the volunteer tutors.
Volunteers: Benjamin Hong (8/3/20, 8/5/20, 8/6/20, 8/9/20, 8/18/20, 8/19/20, 8/20/20, 8/21/20, 8/26/20, 8/27/20, 8/28/20, 8/30/20, 8/31/20 – 45 mins each; 8/4/20, 8/24/20, 8/25/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Amy Xu (8/2/20, 8/3/20, 8/4/20, 8/6/20, 8/9/20, 8/10/20, 8/12/20, 8/19/20, 8/20/20, 8/24/20, 8/27/20, 8/28/20, 8/31/20 – 45 mins each; 8/5/20, 8/7/20, 8/14/20, 8/17/20, 8/21/20 – 2.25 hrs each), Tarun Sivakumar (8/3/20, 8/4/20, 8/5/20, 8/9/20, 8/18/20, 8/19/20, 8/20/20, 8/21/20, 8/24/20, 8/25/20, 8/26/20, 8/27/20, 8/28/20 – 45 mins each), Raymond Hu (8/3/20, 8/4/20, 8/5/20, 8/6/20, 8/10/20, 8/11/20, 8/13/20, 8/17/20, 8/18/20, 8/20/20, 8/21/20, 8/24/20, 8/25/20, 8/26/20, 8/27/20, 8/30/20 – 45 mins each; 8/7/20, 8/14/20, 8/19/20 – 1.5 hrs each; 8/12/20, 2.25 hrs), Catherine Yang (8/6/20, 8/11/20, 8/14/20, 8/18/20, 8/19/20, 8/21/20, 8/25/20, 8/26/20, 8/29/20 – 45 mins each), Dalina C (8/1/20, 8/4/20, 8/7/20, 8/8/20, 8/11/20, 8/21/20, 8/22/20, 8/25/20, 8/27/20, 8/28/20, 8/29/20 – 45 mins each; 8/14/20, 8/18/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Allan Gao (8/3/20, 8/4/20, 8/5/20, 8/7/20, 8/10/20, 8/11/20, 8/12/20, 8/17/20, 8/18/20, 8/21/20, 8/24/20, 8/25/20, 8/26/20, 8/27/20, 8/28/20 – 45 mins each), Grace Hu (8/3/20, 8/5/20, 8/14/20, 8/17/20, 8/21/20 – 45 mins each; 8/7/20, 1.5 hrs), Jonathan Qi (8/4/20, 8/7/20, 8/11/20, 8/16/20, 8/18/20, 8/21/20, 8/25/20, 8/27/20 – 45 mins each), Kevin Xu (8/4/20, 8/11/20, 8/18/20, 8/25/20 – 45 mins each; 8/7/20, 8/14/20, 8/21/20, 8/28/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Kevin Ho (8/4/20, 8/11/20, 8/18/20, 8/25/20 – 45 mins each; 8/7/20, 8/14/20, 8/21/20, 8/28/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Jessica Hong (8/1/20, 8/2/20, 8/3/20, 8/5/20, 8/6/20, 8/8/20, 8/10/20, 8/12/20, 8/13/20, 8/17/20, 8/18/20, 8/19/20, 8/20/20, 8/21/20, 8/24/20, 8/26/20 – 45 mins each; 8/4/20, 8/7/20, 8/11/20, 8/25/20, 8/27/20, 8/28/20 – 1.5 hrs each; 8/14/20, 2.25 hrs), Kyle Xu (8/12/20, 8/14/20 – 45 mins each), Sophie L.(8/1/20, 8/4/20, 8/6/20, 8/13/20, 8/14/20, 8/18/20, 8/19/20, 8/24/20, 8/25/20, 8/26/20 – 45 mins each; 8/7/20, 8/11/20, 8/21/20, 8/28/20 – 1.5 hrs each), Jessica Lee (8/2/20, 8/9/20, 8/11/20, 8/12/20, 8/13/20, 8/15/20, 8/16/20, 8/18/20, 8/19/20, 8/20/20, 8/22/20, 8/23/20 – 45 mins each), Matthew Ding (8/17/20, 8/24/20, 8/25/20, 8/26/20, 8/27/20, 8/28/20 – 45 mins each), Evie Shen (8/3/20, 8/5/20, 8/7/20, 8/12/20, 8/14/20, 8/17/20, 8/19/20, 8/21/20, 8/31/20 – 45 mins each), Summer He (8/5/20, 8/6/20, 8/10/20, 8/17/20, 8/20/20, 8/24/20, 8/27/20 – 45 mins each), Sam Altman (8/7/20, 8/12/20, 8/14/20, 8/17/20, 8/19/20, 8/30/20 – 45 mins each), Chloe Zhou (8/6/20, 8/22/20, 8/29/20 – 45 mins each), Alvin Zhang (8/4/20 – 1.5 hrs; 8/30/20 – 45 mins), Ethan Zhou (8/4/20, 8/30/20 – 45 mins each), Alicia Xu (8/18/20, 8/20/20, 8/27/20 – 45 mins each), Timothy Jiao (8/14/20, 8/28/20 – 45 mins each)
