Arguing From Personal Experience: Literacy Narrative

Arguing From Personal Experience
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Arguing From Personal Experience
Students go through a learning experience in a setting that shapes them for larger national issues ahead of them. Educational experiences may seem as school thing but they shape the student and prepare them for the real world. A school setting involves a lot of things that reflect the real world. Students interact with fellow students of varying ages and different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds. With all this diversity come different mindsets and opinions that are different from one student to the other. Students are also under supervision and control of their teachers all the time they are at school. But on the other hand, students may have to go out of their comfort zones to learn something extra or something new that they did not even want to learn. This happens with different schools having different curriculum especially when students transfer from state school to another state school. For this reason, every student has an educational experience that shapes him or her and grows them as a person. This paper will address a personal educational experience that is connected to an issue of larger cultural importance.
As a student I experienced a lot of educational experiences that shaped me as an individual and prepared me for the issues that are out here in the community. Educational experiences prepared me for social, cultural and economic issues that I now experience in the community. But the experience that always shaped and prepared me and which I consider very important is learning of multiple languages. Learning of multiple languages at the same time is a very demanding task and it needs a lot of commitment. Learning a second and third language at the same brings a certain element of confusion and feeling of tiredness that may drain the learner to a certain level that a student may feel the need to drop some and pursue the other. I remember when I first joined my new school, I was fluent in English but I was supposed to learn Spanish and French at the same time.
This was a very crucial time in my education experience and it was very intense. I felt that it was too much for me. Sometimes I dint see the need for learning all this at the same time since it was confusing and tiresome. My parents were supportive of the idea and they were always advising me to work hard and enjoy the experience. My teachers were very good at teaching and they made it as enjoyable as they could. They always encouraged us through the intense curriculum because it was important, they used to say. As students, it was a hard moment especially for me who had come in from a school that never offered teaching other languages.
I lagged behind other students since they were accustomed to the curriculum. I remember one day I threw in the towel, went home and demanded that my parents transfer me from that school. My parents understood my feelings, my struggle but they were determined to ensure that I continued with the classes. They did everything to ensure I went back to school with a determined and more willing mind. I went back and my teachers were always supportive and they talked to me about passed experiences...