Jean T. Parisien

H.  Papas

Homework:                             Autobiography about writing and reading

I remember the first time I came here, at BCC to start my ESl class. It was my first time to sit down in a classroom of U.S.A, and my first time to study in another language. I was very nervous because I couldn’t hear what the teacher was talking about when he was teaching. I was so strange like a person who lost her right way.  Generally reading and writing are a part of my life because of my profession as a Minister. But, writing and reading in English give me a lot of trouble. Moreover the rules and the pronunciation are different of my native language.  Even though the English was so difficult for me, I just kept reading and writing to improve it because that was the only way I could become better.  When I was writing in English I used to make a lot of mistake. That made me shame and sad in class. My first writing teacher advised me and encouraged me to continue to read and write, even though I make mistake, I can learn by my mistakes.  Since the day when I text my friends by phone or on face book I do it in English. I applied my teacher’s advises and at the end of the semester in the  CPT test.  I finally understand my writing was growing up and I was better than before. When I m writing now, I try to use the methods that I learned in class. I write wherever I m: in the meetings, at the church, in class and I don’t have any favorite utensil and paper to write because my goal is to improve my English. For this semester I would like to be better than before in witing and reading.