Celebrating Failure

1) Over the course of this summer I have tried again and again to be able to talk to random people in the street but for me its not easy at all. I'll tell you why its not easy and the truth is because I'm in my home town Santa Cruz, Bolivia down in South America. Here in Bolivia if you are lucky you'll find 1 person out of 10 that can understand an interview in english. So, I don't think its a good thing to have students take this course online and having them interview people, what if like me, they're in a country where no one speaks english? And I don't think its a matter of me not trying cause I really have. For the assignments I did do, I had to call people on the phone or interview some of my family members, again because not all of them speak english. The other assignments I didn't do because we had to interview people we didn't know, and I couldn't find people I didn't know who could understand and respond in an interview in english. So, I believe I will fail to get the grade I would have liked.  

2) I learned that there are some things in life that you just can't change, for much that I tried I couldn't find people in the streets who could speak two words in english. Also, I learned that with problems like this one you have to try and find the way to persevere, when I could I interviewed family members which was for the "my secret sauce" and yet again I had to call friends on the phone cause not all of my family members speak english.

3) Yep, failure is hard and its even harder when it doesn't have anything to do with you. I guess next time I'll have to read the course syllabus before staying in the class. The downside to that is that I had to take the course cause its the only elective listed for my major that can be done online, and thats exactly what I needed. So, I think that the risk has to be taken to be able to get ahead in life, if I opted out of this course I would have had to take it during the fall instead of some other course meaning I would have lost time. This class has made me a lot more patient when it comes to failure, I have learned that at times you have to wait out and try your best with every assignment or test life throws at you.