![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She got the lowest mark in the class, but she did pass! She made herself flash cards and practiced each morning on the bus as she went to school. Everyone else in Russian class was a native speaker and Marsha didn't even know the alphabet. She needed a language option to complete her degree but she wasn't very good in French so she stupidly signed up for Russian. She took a degree in English at the University of Western Ontario. She was placed in enriched English as punishment and loved every minute of it. Her grade 10 English teacher sent her to the vice principal's office because she asked too many questions in class. She decided that she loved reading big fat fiction, and wanted to write it too. Reading that book was a turning point in her life. She kept on renewing it for a whole year. As the tallest and oldest kid in the class, she didn't want to be seen learning to read with little skinny books and she was too proud to ask for help, so she taught herself how to read by taking out the fattest book in the children's section of the Brantford Public Library - Oliver Twist. Adding insult to injury, they made her repeat the whole year. Marsha tricked her teachers into thinking she knew how to read until it all caught up with her in grade 4 when she failed the provincial reading exam. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |