English is my ultimate agitated …show more content…
I moved from Bangladesh, a Bangla speaking country, to the U.S., an English speaking country. Moving to the United States was the toughest transition I had, due to the fact that I was learning English like a newborn child starts to learn their mother tongue. Other than those novellas, or fairytales, I cannot flashback reading anything since "The Anthem," which was a teacher assigned book in my freshman year of high school English class. Not that I read a lot before that, I do not remember reading any textbooks in my middle school nor my elementary school. That was the first time when I felt an attachment to my textbooks, probably because I have learned the importance of learning through the characters in the book. Even now, with this writing assignment, my brain feels like an aged decayed instrument of a Porsche 911, cranking up for the first time in years, readying to compete in the heat. I never remembered anything in my textbooks, until I was required to read. Even though reading allows the reader to get involved and leads the reader to feel the true emotions of the author. However, as I moved on to my junior year of high school, I was influenced by my English teacher. She made me realize that reading enables us to understand the inner self more and writing helps us to express our creativity in a unique