This was a simulation that I originally thought would be quite easy but I found that it was actually quite difficult. Before this simulation I did a little bit of preparation, which I probably shouldn't have done to get the full experience, but I came up with words and phrases that I could use that didn't include the letters /n/ or /l/. While I thought I would be able to do this simulation relatively easy it was not as easy as I thought.
The conversations that I had planned out didn't go as I had expected them to, in one case it did for a couple questions and then the person asked questions that I didn't expect and I felt really silly because I really struggled after doing so well for the first part of the conversation. There was one part where he asked me a yes or no question and my answer was no, so I racked my brain looking for a word but it was nowhere to be found so I ended up just shaking my head.
My other experience was even more uncomfortable because the conversation did not go in the way that I had intended at all. I felt very uncomfortable and awkward as I tried so hard to come up with the words that I could use to express my self. The person that I was talking to also tried to help me and give me suggestions which I just found to be even more distracting, I wish that she would have just given me time to come up with what I wanted to say.
This experience was extremely frustrating to me because I was unable to express what I wanted to say and it took me a long time to come up with something close to what I wanted to say. I think that this experience will give me added patience with students who are slow to answer questions and might help me to slow down in my future classroom to make sure that all my students are where they should be.
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