Dear Felix:

You are welcome. Thank you for expressing your appreciation.

As far as “talking skills”- you can learn these skills. Question is where and how. If there was a class in school called “talking skills”, that would have been wonderful. But still, you can learn that.

Your “fierce face”, you can change that by sitting in front of the mirror and relaxing your face until it doesn’t look fierce anymore. Then, when you are in public, relax your face from time to time, just like you did in front of the mirror.

Eye contact- same thing, when in public, intentionally look a person who is talking to you, in the eyes, once in a while.

Back to talking skills, you can post to me beginning of conversations you had, what a person said to you when you didn’t know what to say in return, and I can suggest to you what you can say in return. You can describe to me this or that situation where you didn’t know what to say, and I can suggest to you what you could say in these situations.

anita