Beginning half reflection

For the beginning half of this Japanese Class, I was able to understand all of the grammar pretty well. I struggled a little bit with A 時 B, but I was able to study well enough to understand it.
I was also able to know which verb form to use for what piece of grammar (te form, short form, etc.) In order to do this, I focused more on examples rather than brute force memorization. I think it really helped to make the language feel a little more natural.
For the latter half of the class, I intend to keep this up in regards to grammar. However, I need to put much more focus on memorizing vocabulary and (especially) kanji. Kanji has always been very hard for me, but I will still try to do my best. However, there is no excuse for not being able to memorize vocab. I simply need to put in more time to studying these things specifically than before.

Interview sentences

おちこんだ時、じぇメスさんはさけを飲みます。
おちこんだ時、ジャクさんはねます。
おちこんだ時、エスリンさんはおいし食べ物を食べます。

Reflection of When Movie

I just finished watching the movie about "when" in Japanese.
The video makes sense, and I think that I understand how the grammar works. The video helped me understand the reasoning behind why the grammar is the way that it is, which is something I did not understand in class.
However, for practical writing and speaking purposes, I have a different way of knowing which to use. Just based on intuition, the grammar seems backwards of what I would expect. So, to me, I know that when I need to say that something happened BEFORE something else, I would think to use past tense, but I need to do the opposite. Therefore, I use the PRESENT tense. The opposite is true as well.
But it is helpful to know and understand why the grammar is this way, which the video explained well. That helps clarify which to use and when.