A Turning Point in My Life
just couldn’t deal with this abuse on top of it all. Finally,
one day, I told my mother what was happening to me. I told
her that I did not want to live in my grandmother’s house
anymore. She didn’t give me an answer, instead she just
started crying. Everything stayed the same for a while, and
we had to work together to try to move on from this
traumatic experience. Eventually, we moved out of my
grandmother’s house. I was very happy that day. It was one
of the best days of my life because I felt free and relieved of
a bad situation. My mother and I were finally happy.
Happiness had finally returned to our lives. We even
looked different because we were smiling all the time. To
conclude my story, all I have to say is that life without
changes would not be life. The harder the changes are for
me, the more I have grown as a person. You have to make
changes in life in order to grow, even if they are very hard
to make.
Michael Bermudez is a student at The English Center.
Literacy Tutoring Has Changed My Life
Since childhood I have been mentally ill. I am not
retarded. I guess that you would say that I am a slow learner
and I have trouble remembering what I learn. I have always
been in Special Ed. I was a premature birth at 6 months. I
weighed only 3 pounds, 3 ounces. Look at me now: 171
pounds and 51 years old! Literacy tutoring has taught me
how to read. Now, I can read books that I like. Especially, I
like to read scary mysteries like The Goose Bumps series.
Literacy tutoring has taught me math, which helps me when
I go shopping. I owe my reading and math skills to my
literacy tutor, Vicki, who was my tutor for at least 3 years
until she passed away in 2008.
Currently, I am working on punctuation marks, sentence
structure, and paragraph formation. (I have learned when
and how to indent.) I now know about periods, commas,
question marks, apostrophes, quotation marks, parentheses,
colons, and semi colons. (Have you noticed the use of them
in this essay?) I know how to use nouns (person, place or