Mentoring Lily: Day 3

I was not able to meet with Lily yesterday because she had to take the day off from work. I called her yesterday evening to remind her to bring her laptop so we can finish working on her Montessori language cards.

This time we decided to meet after work at the local library. We had our laptops and I told her I would watch as she demonstrated what I taught her so far. I was pleasantly surprised to know that she had already gone and made language cards herself at home. I even jokingly said that she didn't need to be mentored in using Microsoft Word. Since she basically learned quickly how to format her cards, I asked her if she needed mentoring in anything else. She told me that she wanted to create an "online journal" and I said, "Oh, so you want to write a blog?" Then she says, "Blob? I didn't say anything about a blob?!" I've never laughed so hard in my life! "No, I said Blog!" and emphasized the g. Then she said, "Is that what it's called?" I said yes. So I directed her to the Blogger.com website and I walked her through opening an account. Once she named her blog, I showed her how to create a post and how to edit her posts as well as publish them.

Once we were through she thanked me and decided to post her first blog. Overall, I think this experience showed me (in my case) that it's easy to work with adults who have some exposure to technology. If I mentored someone who otherwise had "no clue", I suppose it would be harder. Now the final thing is to ask Lily to create an attestation for me on how I did as her mentor!