LeManely Gishie

Throughout my entire life, I have always been a math person. English really was not the thing for me. Math just naturally came to me. I could understand the concepts, and apply them easily. But, for English it was entirely different. I would only read and write when I was assigned. I never read a book for pleasure or wrote anything on my own time. Up until the end of last year, I realized that being able to write a coherent and easy-flowing essay is something that I desired to be good at doing.

During the summer I began to enjoy reading a little more. I began a book called The Naked Brain. This book is about the brain through a neuroscience perspective. It is really interesting. The different cases of real people and their brain diseases caught my attention easily. This book was found in the Psychology section at Border’s. Psychology and the mystery of the brain are two subjects that interest me greatly. Just knowing that the brain, which all our lives are dependent upon, is still in need of being discovered and understood just like anything else in our world. This is book really caught and taught me this summer.

The only other writing that I do outside of school is writing down my thoughts from time to time in a notebook that my parents gave me when I was eight. They tell me it will be a good thing to look back upon when I am older and for my grand kids, but I do not think I would want them to read some of the stuff that I wrote in there. Keeping a diary brings back good memories that I know would have been forgotten. This is the only type of writing other than school work that I do.

The history of my reading and writing may not seem as long of a list as other students, but I am working hard to become a better student. Reading and writing have not been very strong points in my education, but practice makes perfect, right?(349)