Availability

Please check the wall of the spanishNY Facebook page for the freshest availability information. Remote Skype classes only in the morning when I am at home. Maybe late at night. In the afternoon I am not usually available for remote Spype classes, unless we agreed beforehand.

 

 

Time slots are NOT fixed on a weekly basis, only some of them are semi-fixed.

PLEASE. PLEASE AVOID CANCELLATIONS OR RESCHEDULING ON THE SAME DAY OR THE NIGHT BEFORE.

Serious inquiries please. For some people, learning Spanish is like a hobby, but for me this is my job.

If you are planning to take Friday night, Saturday morning, or Sunday morning classes, please just check what has historically happened to my students at these times during all these years I have been tutoring: tooth crowns fall so they need to go to the dentist; many students don't get up because they feel sick; relatives have sudden problems so they have to travel out of town; pets get sick; boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives get sick on Saturday mornings as well; they have to stay at home waiting for some furniture delivery; some students cannot find their keys, so they can't leave their apartments; dogs (or cats or hamsters) eat their homeworks, and since they have no homework, they prefer to cancel; there are blackouts in their apartments, so they have to wait for the electricians. <--- Sounds like a joke, but they really have come out with these stories.

I have cancelled/rescheduled less than 15 of some 2000+ classes in all these years. I have cancelled twice in a year because on a Saturday and the following Sunday mornings my alarm clock didn't work!! In 2005, I didn't show up to one class because I totally forgot about that class. In 2007, I cancelled several days of classes because I broke my ankle while going to one of them, and for 3 months my students had to come to my apartment. In 2003, I didn't make it because of a snow storm.

This is what happens if you cancel:

-If you cancel a couple of hours before the class, I most likely will be on the subway/tunnel already, and I won't even be able to read my email, text messages, or get your phone call.

-Even if you cancel a day before, or a few hours before the class, it may be too late to recover: Depending on the time and location, I will find myself on the streets trying to kill the hours between the end of my previous class, and the starting time of the next (usually 2 or 3 hours). If it's very cold or very hot out, it's not good.

-Classes that are "rescheduled" for the following week, technically are not rescheduled, are actually cancelled.

If you usually take a 2 hour class, or a 90 minute class, and one day you are planning to take less time, please let me know about the schedule change during the previous class.

Locations:

At the following Manhattan locations: Along the number 1 train. Target store at Marble Hill, Manhattan, at 225th St. (Just at certain times), Upper West Side, Columbus Circle, Midtown, Chelsea, West Village, Union Square, Astor Place, NYU, Flatiron. Madison Square Park, Grand Central, Hell's Kitchen, Chambers near the 2/3 train station. Upper East Site (on Lex right by any subway station). Midtown East at Juan Valdez on 57th and Lex. If you have a Columbia University ID, at Buttler Library.

I like some Starbucks for classes. At Starbucks, they are pretty cool if we are sitting there studying for a couple of hours, at most other places, like diners, they are not. Starbucks have coffee, water, soda, restroom, air conditioning, heating.

Unfortunately, I don't own my own classroom. The advantage is that you don't have to contribute to pay for the classroom's rent, like in some other places.

 

Availability also depends on location and transportation service conditions:
New York City Transit Service advisories.

Should we experience severe weather conditions, same day confirmation should be arranged.