Student, Film-Maker, English Tutor?

Today I finally registered in Berlin which was no mean feat but this will allow me to get a bank account and a job.

I've been pondering about this recently, trying to think of what kind of things I could do, which is limited by the small amount of German that I speak. I'd had some vague thoughts about teaching English, either to a class or tutoring as I know people who have done both with knowing little or no German, but it seemed a bit of an 'easy' job to me, and not quite a 'proper days work'.

But while I was on my break from my German lesson today, one of the guys from the other class came up and ask me if I'd be willing to tutor him for two hours a day, every day for two weeks. He said he has some 'Cambridge Edition' books to work from and seemed quite keen so we exchanged numbers and I said I'd text him my email address and a price as I wanted to think about it.

I spoke to a couple of people about what to charge and they suggested €15 per hour would be a reasonable price. Teaching for two weeks will probably mean 10 days of lessons, which is 20 hours which equates to €300 which in my current apartment is two months rent. Not bad for two weeks work and definitely not something I'm going to turn my nose up at.

So I'm going to try and tutor this guy as best I can, then if it goes well I'll look into the possibility of doing it more often, or at least as a second job. There are a few places I can advertise so I should be able to get a small number of people to teach.

Either way, it's a new experience and Berlin has taught me to embrace the new and the bizarre whenever the opportunity arises. If only my GCSE English teachers could see me now.