Me as a writer (by Clauren)

Although I "write" from I was six years I can not say I had had significant experiences as a writer. From those first years I just remember the endless handwriting exercises or dictations, only for proving students write “properly”, that means writing with good spelling, understandable letter and keeping the margin, wasted time. Fortunately things change in fifth grade, I remember a teacher who worked some micro-projects in the Spanish course, some of them were the writing of haikus, poems, short tales, cartoons, etc... I really liked being in this class not only because I learnt, but because it was the first time I felt as a writer and I enjoyed it.

Writing practices in the secondary school instead of get better turn, in any way, monotonous and mechanic. I could define in one word: “summaries”, we write all the time summaries. Even though teacher asked us writing essays or other kind of academic texts, those texts always seemed like summaries. By those I missed that feeling of freedom I felt in fifth grade as I was writing. Now I realized that from early age we had been trained for being “ventriloquists” as said Theresa Lillis, so when we arrive to the university we already have the habit to reproduce official or unofficial discourses.