I helped a variety of different aged students this time. I helped a few 3rd graders with their math homework and helped on of those same girls with a sheet asking cultural questions about her and her family. That was a little awkward to try to explain to her as she was African American and I'm not. I had to make sure the connotation I gave her in my explanation was not a negative one as that could frame how she sees different cultures and races. She didn't seem phased by anything I was telling her though. She was literally an open book and just went with the flow. Maybe she didn't realize the importance of different cultures and races in this world. Probably not...
One thing that threw me off was when a seventh grade boy asked me for help with his algebra homework. I felt a wee bit incompetent when I had to tell him to give me a few seconds to look back through the book to figure out how to help him. He was working on finding the slope of a line... something I haven't done in at least five years. Of course, once I read up really quickly it all came back to me and I was fine. I was certainly humbled by that incident. You're never as smart as you think you are. You better believe that.
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