When I turned seventeen years old I started my own blog website. Due to this website, I'm free to express myself to an audience around the world. I've always had a strong passion for literacy even from a young age. When I was younger I would write short stories to entertain myself. Having that outlet in my life gave me a chance to explore my imagination into a new depth.
Most of my childhood consisted of me either writing or reading a book. I loved reading a good book that gave me the opportunity to enter a whole new world of fantasy. I had such a passion for it that I even decided to write my own stories. Sometimes I was able to let my imagination take a hold on me when it came to my writing. I spent many hours of my day makings stories about what was going on my
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I assume what made me enjoy literacy even more, was joining my school's creative writing UIL (University Interscholastic League). I remember it was actually one of my friends suggesting for me to try out. At that time I was against the idea completely since I have great fear of being judged from my work. But, after thinking it over many nights I decided to take the chance. I was so nervous when the try-out day came. A part of me even wanted to back out and just leave home. I didn't let those doubts get the best of me and I wrote my essay. As soon as I saw that the topic was to write a adventure story I didn’t hold anything back. I made up this whole story and got carried away that I didn’t realize I was the last person to finish my essay. It took a few weeks to hear back from the team to see if I got in. A part of me was scared that I over did it, which was a common thing in my writing. My mind was racing with questions for a whole week just dying to know any bit of feedback that I was able to get. Around the last three days I mentally came to the fact that maybe I wasn’t a good writer after all. It
I agreed to the challenge, and once I got the topics, I had two weeks to make them perfect before I had to send them in. I turned in draft after draft, but Mr. Martin still was not convinced that was the best I could do. He told me a quote that I will never forget, “Hard work does not guarantee success, but no success is possible without hard work.” With just three days left, I wanted to give up. The stress of the essays was too much for me. But I made a promise to myself that I would not let my teacher down. That night, I stayed up until almost two A.M. perfecting my essays. Mr. Martin was amazed. Once everyone who had taken on the challenge turned in their essays, two members of the Space Camp came to our school to announce the winner. And the name that was called was not my name. A couple days passed, and the two members returned; they decided there were going to be two winners from my school, and I was that second
My literacy journey began long before I had actually learned how to read or write. While recently going through baby pictures with my mother, we came across a photo of my father and I book shopping on the Logos boat, a boat that would come to my island every year that was filled with books for our purchasing. Upon looking at this picture, my mother was quite nostalgic and explained how they began my journey to literacy through experiences like this. My earliest memory of experiencing literature was as a small child. My parents would read bedtime stories to me each night before I went to bed. I vividly remember us sitting on the bed together with this big book of “365 bedtime stories for 365 days” and we read one story each day until we had
As this journey continues in my life, I am happy that I’m almost to the end of my journey. But learning is like and endless line, one can never get too much of it. For what we have knowledge of are pinch of glass of water from the ocean of education. Looking forward on becoming more literate for it will guarantee me respect, credibility and high economic status from society. My early journey of literacy has allowed me to be reach a level my parents and I can be proud of. Now my curiosity not only partakes in literacy but also to a successful future.
Besides this immersion into a world of books, I credit my love of reading to the fact that my parents only let me watch an hour of TV a day. I learned to use my mind and imagination to entertain myself. It's not really surprising that literature became my vocation. When not reading or writing, I enjoy watching films, baking, going to the city to eat Thai and Ethiopian food, walking, and relaxing with my friends.
I used to have to take these tests about all the books I would read in school and I would always ace them all. I knew that reading was something I liked because I was always very intrigued by it. Also in middle school I found my true writing voice. I remember taking a creative writing class in six grade and I was always the student who wrote more than what was expected for my writing assignments. I would write stories about things such as my friends and the experiences that I had in school. Sometimes I would even write my own plays and in my plays the characters would be people in family and people from school. I would always try to make the plot super interesting in my plays. One time I wrote a play about my brothers and me traveling to space and finding aliens. Overall, I really fell in love with literacy throughout my middle school years because I was able to read books more at an advance level and I also was able to write more intense stories. Literacy has been a positive influence in my life all throughout my school
I want to be a scribe because I wish to serve patients in a more effective manner than I have in the past. After experiencing what it is like to work in a hospital environment for 2 years as a volunteer, I really want to take on more responsibility in the workspace. In addition, I am also extremely interested in medicine and I believe that being a scribe could help me learn even more about the field.
I Can Writing has always proved to be difficult and unpleasant for me, which was only worsened by the diminutive amount of confidence I had in my writing. I needed to gain self-assurance as a writer, but I also required an overall increase in my self-esteem. During my early school years, the writings that I produced were mediocre and definitely not my greatest works. The lack of confidence in myself as a writer certainly inhibited me from constructing the works that I had in my mind. Over the years, faith in myself has grown, as well as my self-possession as a writer.
Reading was never something I fussed about growing up. As a child, I loved genres of realistic fiction. I was hooked on The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley, Goosebumps, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Judy Moody, and especially, Zoobooks and Highlights magazines. My mother was always ready to help build my reading and writing skills. She took me to the library constantly to feed my passion for books and knowledge. I loved exploring the shelfs, organizing the books, and filling up my library cart. I tried keeping a diary in elementary school to keep track of my outings with my parents and grandparents to museums, zoos, movies, and libraries. This flash of writing enthusiasm was spun from books I read in the 4th and 5th grade that were