Hello my friends, today was a bad day during class. As it turns out, the teacher was asking the students for a response, she caught me off guard with a 'personal' question, as I sat at the front corner of the room, I could see all these faces and eyes looking at me, and you know the rest of the story. Somehow I managed to answered the questions briefly but not without a a bruise on my reputation and a scar on my development. However, I had a chance to come back and demonstrate that I could answer a question without getting embarrased, and I did. I bounced back and I feel a little better than if I would have left the class without speaking. My plan to overcome this personality deficit is to interject comments during a class activity, then to practice a conversation alone, then slowly expand my sentences and say my thoughts during a class discussion. I hope this works out. If anyone out there has suggestions, I will be more than happy to try them out, thanks and lets keep going!!