Isn't is a nightmare, when your student writes you a piece of composition with few grammatical sentences? You the strangest and most surreal feeling as you plough through the literary swamp, with objects and people materialising and disapparating whimsically. You really thought you read that the boy was in school one moment, when the next an alien comes by and the boy was acutually not in a dream that you thought he was not in anyway?

If you were confused by the last sentence, this is how most English tutors feel most of the time. Really.