Reflection: Growing Up At Live Oak Elementary School

All It Takes In the 3rd grade, I remember my teacher telling me that reading will be the one thing in your life that you will always enjoy. I really never understood how she could come to that conclusion. I was not the kind of person who cared about reading, nor did I actually take the time to learn about characters and try to relate to them. It was not until I felt myself flying in the air and soaring in the sky with them. It was not until I felt like I was living in the same world as them. I understood what she meant when I felt like I was one of them. Sometimes all it takes is one experience to change your outlook on life.
Growing up at Live Oak Elementary school, I remember that every year there was a school \ read-a-thon. The teachers created this read-a-thon to increase the amount of books that students read and to persuade students who were not reading books to read more. Once you read a certain amount of pages in a book, you would be allowed to attend this giant sleepover in the schools’ Multi-Purpose-Room (MPR). And every year I never went. I just never really had that connection to books in any way whatsoever. I had never found a book that I could bond with. Every character that I read about seemed bland and boring. Unfortunately, I could …show more content…
I went down countless aisles searching for the right book, but every book that I encountered had the same cover. Two girls, one with blonde hair and brown hair, either leaning against each others backs or facing opposite directions. It seemed that most books had the same synopsis of two girls being best friends and liking the same guy or two enemies who are former best friends. Every plot was a cliché story involving backstabbing friends or fighting over the same guy. At one point I just sat down in an aisle in shock and disbelief. I mean, it should not be that hard to find a book right? Well it certainly seemed that