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.  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. Moreover my English was began to grow up I was intrigued to register for English 101. But, knowing the necessity to improve my English I took it and it was benefit for me.

The first assignment is about Memoir. I took two days to think about a good story about me that can attract my readers. I put on the paper whatever idea that comes in my mind. Finally, I found a best one. It was about the first time I left my family’s home to going to work as a minister is another city in my country far from my city. I wrote my essay in two times after that I compared them and I took the best one. When I ‘m doing it. I tried to pick the mains point of each paragraph and to figure out the main idea. I thought a lot to remember everything. When I was done my teacher revised the draft, put some notes where I made some mistake and gave me some advice.

My second assignment is about ethnography. The teacher gave us a lot choice to write about in whatever group we want to write that connect to our theme. The way we have to do that is to use the observation method. AS my theme was family, I had to go in some place to do that. I have chosen black American church to figure out the way the families come to worship God. That allowed me to develop the sense of observation and have something to share with my classmates. This essay taught me how to collect ideas or drawing my observations and examine the subculture.

My last assignment is an argument essay. The last one appears more difficult for me. The method that we have to use to do it, it’s to read a lot of article for finding appropriate quotations that support our ideas in our topic. In reason of multiple divorces I chosen: should divorce be the way out of the spousal conflicts? After reading a lot of article on it I felt more comfortable to start writing.