introduction

Ever since I was a very little girl school was always my favorite place to be. Despite school peer troubles and moving around so much, I was always able to keep up in school. The only times I’ve ever really had trouble keeping up were when I was in the 7th grade and made a desperate attempt to get help by refusing to do schoolwork, and in college the last couple years. I’ve always had nice teachers; even the very strict ones who didn’t understand the trouble I was having were nice. I’ve always loved to learn, and couldn’t keep my hands off of any genre of books until my eyes got bad. I love to write and read, so even after my eyes got the way they are now I refuse to stay away from any English-related activity.
Comprehension when it comes to college story-books has always been a serious problem for me. My teachers, knowing I was smart, assumed I could understand anything that came my way, and their viewpoints made it hard for me to enjoy trying to learn what I was supposed to learn. Those college level storybooks always had an underlying meaning I could never figure out. This was the only reason I passed with a C in high school.
Grammar and spelling have always come easy to me, as did school itself, because it was my get-away from home life. While everyone else was struggling to keep up, I was whizzing by in these two subjects. I frequently voluntarily tutored many of my peers, but the one time I had trouble in grammar, so too did the rest of the class because I helped teach them how to understand it. For that reason, the whole class had trouble with one subject in grammar that otherwise only a few of us would have had trouble in.
I could always pick up a book and be in some wonderful otherworldly life in the snap of my fingers, and I frequently roamed the world of books. The world of books was always much better than reality as a child, and even now, but I lost my ability to fully give myself away to my books when I went to a group home at 14.
Still to this day I love to learn, which is why I pursued my childhood dream of going to college. Even as a little girl I knew there were ways to pay for college even though I wouldn’t have been able to afford it if it weren’t for being part of DHHS most of my teenage years and grants from college. I thank DHHS and EMCC for helping me pursue my college dream, because if it weren’t for them I may not have gotten far enough.