The first 12 years of my life I avoided reading or writing because I associated it with school work and if there was one thing I avoided at all cost it was that. My first year and a half of school was on a tiny island named Guam and the school was probably far, far below any standards back then. The teachers could spank the children in front of the class and my teacher in particular chose a whale bone as the weapon of choice. I think one of the hardest things was that we were not taught in English all the time, my teacher favored speaking in Chamorro more often than not. Still to this day I can still speak a bit of Chamorro but it was very confusing for me back then because at home my parents only spoke English. Over half way through my
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I went from never reading a book because I thought it was work to suddenly reading a book or two a week. In class we had to write a short story about Sinbad the sailor and his eighth voyage, I ended up writing 11 typed pages because I was really enjoying it. I discovered that year if it was something I enjoyed I could really write, granted it wasn 't the most amazing story or anything but I had fun with it. Unfortunately for me we moved again that summer and was in a whole new country and I had to start over making friends once again. I have to say that for me back then was if I felt secure with having a few friends and comfortable at school, my school work reflected that but when I was uncomfortable I really didn 't have an interest in school.
Thankfully I didn 't stop reading, I continued to read up to 4 or 5 books a week sometimes. I do understand reading is not the same as writing but through reading my vocabulary grew as well as my knowledge. I no longer feared writing book reports or doing research papers but I only put my full effort into it if it was something that captured my interest. Over my teenage years I would dream of someday becoming a writer and being famous though I still really didn 't write a lot of anything because I was way more interested in
I went from never reading a book because I thought it was work to suddenly reading a book or two a week. In class we had to write a short story about Sinbad the sailor and his eighth voyage, I ended up writing 11 typed pages because I was really enjoying it. I discovered that year if it was something I enjoyed I could really write, granted it wasn 't the most amazing story or anything but I had fun with it. Unfortunately for me we moved again that summer and was in a whole new country and I had to start over making friends once again. I have to say that for me back then was if I felt secure with having a few friends and comfortable at school, my school work reflected that but when I was uncomfortable I really didn 't have an interest in school.
Thankfully I didn 't stop reading, I continued to read up to 4 or 5 books a week sometimes. I do understand reading is not the same as writing but through reading my vocabulary grew as well as my knowledge. I no longer feared writing book reports or doing research papers but I only put my full effort into it if it was something that captured my interest. Over my teenage years I would dream of someday becoming a writer and being famous though I still really didn 't write a lot of anything because I was way more interested in