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Yeah that's true. I think that's the case for most of us. Once the exam starts and we unfold the papers the nervousness tends to dissipate. Unless you're a cheater and you have to constantly be watching your surrounding to see if you're gonna get caught.

I do not stress over exams, but being human I do get nervous. How nervous I am depends on how prepared I am? I remember going to an exam very much unprepared and tears came to my eyes as I cried over the grade that I knew I would get. But what that lesson taught me was that it does not matter so much how you perform at something but that it is best that you have the experience of trying it out.

That's true. There is an attention span issue that we have to be very attentive to. You mentioned that you are a mother and that strikes a very valid point. Even if our kids are not getting the education that they should at schools, we should be the ones, as parents, who help them to review and learn new educational materials?

I remember growing up and going to school. We did all the things that you mentioned. Our teacher would call us up to read in front of the whole class. This helped to develop our confidence and also forced us to read while we were at home, thus preparing us against embarrassment and public ignominy. We did spelling and all of those stuff. I guess my school was one of the ones that stood out.

Our brains were created with many faculties but I believe the imaginative aspect of the brain is what really will bring us into favor with people in life. Movies, cartoons, technological innovations and so forth, all are induced as a result of our imaginative ability. I do have an imaginative mind but I find that I still have to stir it up, in a sense. I have to create a situation where I am reading a novel each day and it really helps me in school to be much more alert and imaginative.

Of course it made sense. It made perfect sense. All the many readings that I did could not have helped me more than the conversations that I had with the Spanish speaking people there.

Might as well my teacher had done it that way, because I could never understand most of what he said in English anyway. He was from Cuba and so is accent was a bit different. After a couple months with him however, I think we all adjusted. We were Super Intelligent Boys at our all boys school so I don't know why the teachers didn't think we were smart enough for them to speak to us in Spanish all the time. I think I would have been more advanced today.

I remember this came up in one of our Spanish discussions back in school. "Es" Refers to the permanent status of a thing or person. "Esta" represents the temporary status of a thing or person.

I like words like these. They have a pronunciation and sound that is similar to the English words that they represent. In essence, they are easier to remember.

Gorda That was one of the first words that stuck with me from I started learning the Spanish language. It means fat and that was exactly what my Spanish teacher was.