Me As A Writer (3rd version)

When I remember what writing in my childhood was, I just imagine a little bored and scared girl trying to follow rules, writing what the teacher demanded to write and making many mistakes all the time. In primary school my writing learning process was not as meaningful and funny as I thought it was going to be.

During second grade I had a terrifying, noisy and abusive teacher. She hit my classmates when they used inappropriate language, talked in class, didn’t do the homework, “breathed” or didn’t pay attention to her and her boring classes. She never hit me because my father handled the situation; he went to talk to her about me. Obviously, my father looked angrier than her, so, she almost “respected” me but hated me. Her revenge: torturing me with her tedious methodology, e.g. to write 300 times the phrase “I have to respect my teacher, I love my teacher, I… Or to write 400 times the same word or letter. ” Therefore, my teacher hated me and I hate writing.

That was me as a writer until third grade where I met teacher Luz Dary. I’m sure I will never forget her because she was totally different from that witch (Rocio). She was lovely, funny, tender and kind. I liked her and learned many things from her; I loved my teacher, so, I loved the classes.

Then, secondary school, the nightmare came back, a terrifying and tedious methodology again. All what I did during that time was following instructions and memorizing boring texts until last grade where I had a good teacher by second time, she taught me to create my own texts (tales, summaries, chronics) and to give points of view. But anyway, it was too late to learn in one year what I hadn’t learned in 11 years.

Finally, when I reached 17 years, I graduated the secondary school and attended The University. It was difficult to change my mind and to discover there was a different way to write, “Writing with sense”. I started to THINK what I was going to write, to CREATE a story, to EXPRESS my point of view and to SUPPORT ideas, something totally different from school. That's why I love writing now, because I talk by myself, I discovered I write to create, to express my point to view, to learn. Not to memorize a process without sense. In conclusion, there are many things to learn, I still make mistakes, but I found the right way to improve my writing, to be a good writer.