Running again - and more than before
A lot of positives from the first meeting with after my vaca. My mentee was talking more and seemed happy to be back to the running. He also said that he has started maintaining a journal to manage his homework as I had suggested. I plan to use his journal to make sure that he is making a real attempt to get better at school. He also asked to run twice a week as opposed to the once a week earlier. So we're going to be at the Y on Monday and Thursday. Now all we gotta do is complete the requirements for the first phase and get some volunteering activities in.
On another happy note my old mentee seems to have really gotten better. Hes got a part time job and is apping to colleges. Hopefully he will make it. That will definitely make my day

Back from my long hiatus
Well that was a long vacation indeed, back from India and beginning to pick up where we left off. However I would be foolish to assume that our relationship will have stayed the same. For sure my mentee will have gotten used to my absence and probably has given up all the progress we made. A lot of my fellow mentors have told me that a vacation (either their own or their mentees) tend to really affect the relationship. I think I tried my best to make sure that my mentee would continue to do the good things that we had talked about - studying regularly and also making notes of what homework needed to have been done. Im not hoping for much, but when I called a couple of days ago he said that he had been recording his homework. So lets see - I see him Monday and so will know soon enough