Reading Autobiography
...ell in love with literature or made it my idol, but I always appreciated the amount of wisdom infused behind the front cover of any book. In fifth grade I came to the United States. My life flipped in every way imaginable, including my reading. I had to start from scratch and catch up to the rest of the kids in my grade level in a mere half of a year. Of coarse there was also the summer vacation which taught me a lot of new English and by the time I was in sixth grade, I felt comfortable listening to the teacher and even starting to read my first English books. It wasn’t until seventh grade that I read my first novel, which was “My Side of the Mountain” after which once again literature became my everyday life. All through out middle school it was very hard to keep up with the appropriate grade level reading. I read very slowly and at times it was hard to understand beyond the basic words that the author put on paper. Once high school came around I could no longer use my crippled English as an excuse to go at my own pace. I was forced to read the regular books that all students read with the same pace as they do it. I can’t say that that was much of a challenge though, since it was now more than three years that I’ve been exposed to English. On average I read about fifteen books a school year while keeping busy with “Hardy Boys” mysteries during the summers. I finally felt comfortable reading out loud in class and having homework assignments from English. Yet in eleventh grade I was forced to go one step higher. I was recommended to take AP US History which sho...