A bit of a history

Break time.

My reading background:

So yesterday I was so into writing. Reading a real novel again reminds me one of my dream in life and that is to write a novel. I started reading novels when I was in my senior year of high school, and believe it or not, the first novel I read was "Twilight Saga". Before I don't really like reading, I mean I do read manga (a japanese comic book) and I am addicted to it, though I must say that I started reading manga's during summer of my junior year in HS. So yea, I'm knew into reading, I tried it before and I got bored. Then Twilight Saga came and I started to be so addicted in reading novels, I remember I spent the entire 3rd and 4th quarter of my high school life in reading Twilight Saga and other novels that I forgot the titles and the authors. - Sorry for that. When I entered college, I meet a lot of people who also likes reading, so I am very thankful for that because they are my sources, I never brought a book with my own money, I just borrowed them. I rather buy food than book. But in my sophomore year, I decided to transfer to other university because I don't like the curriculum they offer for my course, so I decided to transfer to my current school, which I know compare to my first university this one sucks. - Don't get me wrong, it sucks in a way that I'm not satisfied with the professors and well the environment too and the students or maybe it's just that my previous university is one of the BEST school in the country so transferring to this school is a huge shock to me, but anyways I'm still here and I must say it's not that bad and I kinda get used to this.

So in this school I only met few people who actually read novels - I just met them. So I am feeling happy because I now found people that I can borrow books but then I realize I am so busy with school stuff. =_=

Oh. I forgot to mention that I learned how to read when I was in 2nd grade. I know, it's kinda late. My parents got me a tutor back then but it didn't work, they just give up because I still couldn't read no matter how hard they teach me. So when I was in 2nd grade my teacher in Filipino will always ask us to read a story out loud in front of the class. We call her "teacher Jenny" I can never forget her, because of her I was forced to teach my self how to read! Yea, I did it on my own - I'm kinda proud of that. I don't want to be embarrassed in front of the whole class, so I actually have the motivation to practice reading. I know the basics of course, like "a"-"e"-"i"-"o"-"u" so I used that to teach myself.

My English grades:

Since pre-school we have english class, and since then I suck at it. I always got "C", "D" and "E". I just don't get it, I mean the whole "S-V" - I don't know what it calls. Also, the proper usage of "there, are, in, on, into, this, these..." and so on, I'm not an expert in using them. Most of you who read my past posts probably noticed that. So, YEA - I suck at english. To be honest I prefer to learn Japanese instead of english and that is because I am addicted to anime too.

Things change when I was in my senior year, because I was so into reading. Though I was good at essay writing even before, I started improving in my senior year in HS. I don't just improve in writing but also in speaking. I didn't know how good I am at speech until my teacher ask us to have a speech. So that inspire me more to improve myself in writing and speaking. Then I got to this one of the "BEST" university in the country - I wanna emphasize the "BEST" word because that university is truly one of the "BEST". To be honest, I still can't believe that I passed the entrance exam and the interview there. The professors are great so I learned a lot, things that I thought that was hard is not as hard as I thought it was so I am contended. In my current school... well, I took 2 english subject here that I needed, it was fine.

In exams, I suck again. I never had a "A" or "B" in my exams in english, but I must say in application I'm doing better. In writing even though I have some troubles, I still manage to at least write something that makes sense and the grammar is fine - I guessed? In speech, well I know I'm good at that.

For now, I still need a lot of improving especially if I want to write a novel, which I tried by the way. It's freakin hard! I thought it's gonna be easy but it's not.