Reflection Statement

My experience in English has always been a good one. Growing I had always had trouble with reading and writing, and I had always wonder why. Later I found out that I have a learning disability in English, which it harder for me to learn it. For a while I thought that I was stupid, because I had such a hard time learning, not just English, but pretty much every subject in school, mainly because I had a hard time reading the texts books, and understanding them. Even though I had trouble with all that I still kept at it, because I new that English is a part of everyday life, I need to know it. Though all of this was very frustrating to me, because I my mom had graduate high school with English honors, and went to college for an English degree, and got it, and yet I have a hard time with it all. Since reading was very hard to me I got into reading comic books,since I figured it would be easier, and they were I really enjoyed them, heck I still do. Also the school I went to for first through eighth, Scared Heart Catholic School, you always had to have a book to read, just in case you finished your work or a test before everyone else was done, just so you weren’t just sitting there doing nothing. Now I knew I couldn’t bring in comic books, so my mom took me to the library, and started helping me find book that interest me, and I started to enjoy reading more, and now I pretty much always have a book on me. For the writing there was only one thing to do practice, and I did and my writing got better, it’s not great, and sometimes people can have a hard time reading it, but it’s much better than it was when I was younger.
Now while English class was never my favorite thing in the whole wide world I at least I didn’t have so much of a hard time that I thought I was stupid. Though I still had some trouble, and I still have this troubles, though today it is more mispronouncing word, maybe putting a letter in the wrong spot, and my writing could use a little work to, but now it’s not so bad. And English while it’s not my favorite subject it’s not a class that I hate, I actually enjoy it. At point in my life I use to dread going to English class, no matter what point in life, middle school, high school, even a little in college, though college is pretty much where that feeling kind of stop, and where I realized that I was good at English. So I guess you could say that English and I have had a rocky relationship with each other, but no we are good, still got some work to do, and most like;y we will always have to work, because no matter what I’m also going to have a learning disability, and I’m also going to have work with that, but I’m not going to let it stop me. Now I’m an Art History major, and in studying that, I have learned there is a lot of writing, and reading involved in it. Though now I don’t mind reading and writing, I enjoy both very much, and I don’t hate it, anymore at least. When I do write though sometimes I find myself going on and on about something, and I guess you could say that sometimes I write to much, or that I got a lot of thoughts in my head that need to get out. I really started to like writing in high school though, the high school that I went to, Burlington County Institute of Technology, or B.C.I.T. for short, was a vo-tech, and the vo-tech I had was film, and I started writing a lot of scripts, so that was helping me get better a writing. Today I still do a lot of writing mainly papers for classes, not so much for enjoyment, and some of those papers have been pretty long was too, mainly the was for my Art History classes. I also still enjoy reading as well, as I mention before I started reading comic books when I was a kid, and I still read comic books today, many of them can be smart too, and they are very enjoyable too. A lot of people may think comic books are just for kids, and if an adult is reading them, than that adult that adult must not be very smart at all, but those people are wrong. Comic books can, and are smart, filled with different ideas and even mythology, and so much more, and they can be very mature as well, my favorite comicbook is called Spawn, trust me when I say you would not let a child read that comic book. Comic books really did help me with reading though, and I really did start to enjoy it, and I found that were novels that had the same genre as comic books, so that help me get into I guess someone might call them real books. Also something that help me with reading was Japanese Manga books too,which are kind of comic books, and regular books combine together, as they are in the writing style that a comic book would be in with pictures, and than word bubbles next to the character who is talking, but it is divide up into chapters. This once again help me really get into reading. Even though I have had many problems with English, and still do I will always give my best, and not give up no matter what. Though there where plenty of times where I have felt like giving up, and wanted to, with a number of things, but my parents kept on pushing me forward, and now I push myself forward too, because I now I can do anything I set my mind to. That my story of English and I.