I want to comment on the section of the Peter Elbow book, inviting mother tongue. Someone else said it today, that this is totally against what you think an English class would be talking about. How important it is to let people write in their mother tongue, makes me feel better about myself and more comfortable in the class. I am really starting to feel I will do o.k. in this class, that I do fit in. When we were ask to pick a sentence I picked the one on page 324, that said "if the words that come naturally from our mouth or pen are labeled wrong- we feel ourselves to have a problem. I agreed with so many things that were said today, not only is this going to be a great learning experience, but also a growing one. I am fee more comfortable with each thing that we do.This is going to help me be a better person and a better teacher, it is making me feel all the time I have already spent was time well spent. We did not discuss much today about the River of Earth, I knew that I would like that book and I really did.