1.4 BACK TO BASICS - Coming Around Again

When the teacher had told us to the students to listen to a dictation narrated by Arturo (a good classmate of us), our assigned written was a little bit confusing to write, I mean, we tried to understand what Arturo was trying to say, it was a shared fault. He had some slips in his pronunciation, plus, we didn't have a well-developed keen ear and that's why I consider this type of exercise benefic for both the speaker and the listener. I did like it.

COMING AROUND AGAIN (written by dictation)

When I was a kid, I used to spend weekdays with my grandpa and grandma while my mom was at the work. I'd sometimes helped my grandma make her special oatmeal cookies. To be honest, I used to be better at eating them than I was at baking them. They were so good! But in those days, more often than not, I'd watch my grandfather in his workshop dash - actually their garage - where he spent most mornings.
He was an amateur inventor, and he would take all the old pieces of metal or wood and and make something new and practical that he or my grandmother called could use around the house.

He once gave me a wallet to hold dollar bills that he had made out of flat cardboard, letter leather, and plastic elastic. It was a magic wallet - you opened the wallet, placed the bill on top of (the) elastic inside, closed the wallet, opened it again from the other side and - low and behold - the bills were behind the elastic and held securely. He had put a ten dollar bill in there, "just in case you need it." Every time I use it I think of my grandfather, and I know it's the only wallet in the world like it.

There were constant stops in the dictation, doubts in the pronounce and certain words he had never listened to. The hesitation was redundant here. He repeated some words, so, in my case I wrote whether the same word or homophones. Here's my fault: I should have tried to deduce some words with the context, for example, in the description of how a wallet was made it's described some materials, now that I see I ask myself "why in the world did I write 'letter' instead of 'leather', it's completely reasonable, maybe the pronunciation was too tricky, but I had to deduce because it fits perfectly.