When I was eleven, my parents decided it would be best to move to America from the Philippines. Moving to a new city was one thing, but a new country? Oh boy. New customs, new friends and what dreaded me the most, new language. At four years old, I learned how to speak my second language, Tagalog and by the time I was six, I was fluent at it. But with English, it was certainly different. Afraid that I would pronounce words incorrectly and probably use the wrong tense, I avoided talking to people. Due to my unfamiliarity with the English language, I struggled to understand those around me and learn my lessons properly. Since I was from another country, they placed me in an English as a Second Language class, or simply known as ESL. A class
