Availability
Time slots are not fixed on a weekly basis, some of them are semi-fixed.
| Week of March 8, 2010 | |
| all Mondays | I usually have availability before 5:30pm |
| all Tuesdays | Availability before 6pm |
| this Wednesday | Availability at 4pm below midtown (only this week) |
| this Thursday | available until 4pm |
| this Friday | Available so far |
| Week of March 1st, 2010 | |
| this Saturday | No availability |
| all Sundays | Early afternoon |
PLEASE. AVOID CANCELLATIONS OR RESCHEDULING ON THE SAME DAY OR THE NIGHT BEFORE.
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; there are blackouts in their apartments, so they have to wait for the electrician.
I have cancelled/rescheduled less than 10 of some 2000+ classes in all these years. I have cancelled twice this year because on a Saturday and the following Sunday mornings my BlackBerry alarm clock didn't work!! In 2005, I didn't showed 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, forget it, I will be on the subway already, and I won't even able to read my email, text messages, or get phone calls because I will be in the tunnel.
-Even if you cancel a day before or a few hours before the class, it's 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 gets really bad for me, even if you pay me for the cancelled class.
-Classes that are "rescheduled" for the following week, technically are not rescheduled, are actually cancelled.
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.
