Today in my grammar class I was thinking about how, at school, we are always telling children that they can try new things and make mistakes without undermining their quality as a student or a person. Maybe I should have been thinking more about my grammar and vocubulary but I couldn´t get that out of my head when mi profesora announced that we were going to play a game of gato (tic tac toe) where each section has a requirement of some sentence you have to construct correctly before you can enter your symbol into that section. Now it is only me and one other student in the class and I already have lots of guilt that i am bringing the class down since this is the other student´s third week in class and i am still in the repaso mode. I breathed deeply and reminded myself of this mantra of erores son opurtunidades para aprender. I made mistakes on the first two sentence tries because i did not understand something about conditional phrases. After a little while and a lot of embarrassment, i ended up getting the hang of it and feel that i came out ahead for the experience. It is definitely hard to take the risk of feeling incapable in your own eyes and appearing incapable in those of others. It is important though and I hope I am doing this.
I am pretty tired since I didn´t sleep very well last night. We are going to walk around a little tonight and eat some more AMAZING tamales that are sold by a woman in front of a restaurant every night after 7pm. I think she makes them at home and then comes and sits in front of the restaurant (to which i think she sells mole?) and sells them out of her pots. Last night we got one of each tipo: mole negro, pollo verde, pollo rojo, frijoles, y dulce and they were the best I have had. Can´t wait, wish I was hungrier!
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