The Present Tense!

To the left is me and my wonderful maestra, Edna! One day last week Edna had to leave early and so I had to meet with another teacher Lucy who I did not know that well. Lucy and I got to know each other a bit and then translated the book of Matthew some. When Edna returned the next day she sat me down and told me that we needed to go back and practice the present tense! I was a little upset because I thought I had mastered the present tense, but Lucy told Edna that I did not know it that well. So, we went over the present tense and I was just fine and actually knew all of the irregular verbs in the present tense, which are many. After I sat and thought for a while about all that me and Lucy had talked about I noticed that it wasn´t that I didn´t know the present tense it is just that I didn´t talk much in the present tense and was just learning the past tense and really butchered it!

This really made me think about how much I talk in the past and future tenses of my life. I often talk about what myself or others have done or are going to do, but rarely do I talk about what is happening around me presently! Once I had this revelation I realized that I needed to start noticing the things around me more and actually talking about them and celebrating them with the people around me! Like the colorful little humming bird that comes to suck the nector of some of the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen in my life that hang from the outside hallway of my school. I have begun to notice people more and their expressions, like the chef at our school who does not smile unless you compliment her cooking and even then only for a mila second! Although it was tough to hear that I had to work on the present tense it was a good reminder to live in the present and not only live but talk in the presence with others around me!