My third tutoring session was with Bumsoo Park. We met at a Starbucks near his place of residence outside of Tallahassee. It is about 20 minutes outside of town but it felt like a quick drive. It also felt nice getting out of the hustle and bustle of everyday Tallahassee life. When I showed up he was waiting outside for me in a chair. I asked "Are you taking a break?" of course I said it slightly slower than I would have if I were to be talking to a native speaker. He replied that he had very much needed the small break and fresh air that he was getting by sitting and waiting for me outside. When I walked in he had numerous papers spread about the two tables he was sitting at with his laptop sitting on top of them. He had clearly been there for a few hours. I asked him about how long he has been there and he confirmed my suspicions.
He showed me what he had been working on. It was a paper on the psychology behind sports fans. It essentially talked about how many fans will act extremely irrationally. Some fans will hate their teams when they are doing poorly and then turn around and say they always had faith in their team when their team begins to do well. An example he used was of Cavalier fans whom hated Lebron James for leaving and betraying them. When Lebron James said that he would be returning to the Cavaliers, these fans responded not with continued hate and mistrust, but with the delusion that they always knew he would return to them. All of the curses and swear they tweeted toward him and also saying they would never welcome him back were a sudden thing of the past.
So I helped him edit his paper and explained why I made the corrections I had made.
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