Dear Anita,

I posted again before your response.  If you would like to read first.

To answer, yes it is a good time to continue the exercise, an excellent time, as I feel memories and thoughts flowing:

You asked: did you have fun in the mall, what was happening there, in the mall (and after maybe, telling your cousins), what were you thinking, what were you feeling.. anything that comes to mind?

I am in the mall, it is fun here, it is close to my house. My mom says that it isn’t that good of a mall because there aren’t that many people here. She says sometimes it is depressing.  My mom likes to look at the perfumes, so we go there, the ladies in the makeup section always smell good and are pretty.  Maybe i can be like them one day. sometimes they tell me how pretty I am which is nice. it makes my mom happy when people say that.  she tells me that my cousins have jealousy because i am so special like that. sometimes it is bad to be special like that maybe.

i go to my cousins house the following weekend.  i forget to tell my cousins aboutthe mall trip because we are having fun outside playing a game in the apartment yard. my mom brings it up, she said oh CC had so much fun last weekend at the mall, we went there and she enjoyed so much.  I don’t say that much.

my mom says to me later: you always are running around with so much to say at home, but what about here in front of others – mute! – like a “roaring lion at home, but a scared lamb around others”

(rough translation to english – this quote comes up time and again in her frustration towards me)