Literacy Timeline

·      Practicing my name. in the living room when I was n k, school and trying to fit the letters into the obnoxiously large lines.

·      My mother teaching me the alphabet. My mom recited the alphabet to me about 1 billion and 3 times when I got home because, being a foreigner, I guess she thought that once I had learned the alphabet I would be as literate as can be.

·      Green eggs and ham – k, school. After having a Dr. Sues book read to me for the first time it was so good that my k, schoolteacher dedicated a day to re-read the book and make green eggs and ham. I was amazed by how the eggs looked. I was sort of skeptical about trying them, but I couldn’t let Dr. Sues down!

·      Wrote mother a mother’s day piece. When the 2^nd grade came along in the middle of May we had to write a piece on our mother. I still have mine and wow, the mistakes I made were horrendous

·      Sunday school and prayer. Being forced to go to Sunday school gave me the knowledge of religion and picked my position on many topics that I would write about in the future.

·      Esperanza rising. Bud not buddy in 5^th grade battle of the books. One of the first books I read by myself, which was extremely long. (to a fourth grader)

·      Michigan chillers. Met the author, didn’t think books could be written to be fun.

·      Writing got really boring in middle school and I only wrote and read when I had to, did not like to write. Worked hard, it was just my mentality

·      CP and AP English recommended to me my teachers. Worst mistake I have ever had in my life. Way too much work for me to handle. Not lazy, just did not like to write. I was more of the hands on kind of guy.

·      Becoming a mechanical engineer, which does not have much to do with writing.