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In the next morning, I saw my neighbor again. I started talking to her in Portuguese and she said I am getting better.  She also told me that she will take me to her laboratory to show me what she does. I was happy about that but as I talked to her, I took the wrong bus.  I was scare when I saw the bus going to an unknown direction.  I wanted to get out but I told myself I will get off the bus when I see something familiar.  Then I saw the graffiti on wall and realize I am on a familiar place so I got off the bus. Sadly I had to walk more than I usually do in order arrive to class.  This experience made me realize how sometimes when I feel afraid of something I try to run away from any situation. When I run away from any situation I realize now that I am making the situation even worse. For example, If I would got out of bus  I think I would of have a hard time finding my way to class. This result would not been really pleasant.   Now I realize that when I panic in some situations, the first thing I have to do is  to evaluate the situation and then solve it.  I learned to know myself a little just by this small experience. I recognized that sometimes I just think I can go against my own comfort zone but I need to control my self-intuition.  Moreover, I arrived a little late to my Portuguese class.  From today class,  I wrote down some interesting questions from the  game card. The question that impact me more was,  “ Se pudesse voltar no passado para acertar as contas com uma pessoa?  Quem seria ela e qual seria o motivo da desavença?” If you could go back to the pass to do the right think for a person? Who will the person be?  and reason to change?”

I will return  to these questions to answer it later on my journey.  But what I answered in class was; I would like to make everyone equal. By this I mean, destroy the thoughts of hierarchy between race, class and religion.

Also I wanted to answer, I would go back to the pass and approach my friend more and be there for her most of the time. I could have tried to motivate her to succeed and to follow her dream but I fail. I fail because it’s hard for me to express what I felt because I felt my opinion was not worth it. Like I say, I would go back to this question later on.  Overall, I love my Portuguese class. The professor challenges me and the best of all is that  I like his technique of teaching.