My Dear Reader Letter

Dear Reader ,

Hello , my name is Enrique and as I write this letter my mind starts to fly back on time ; to be more specific to the fall quarter of 1979 . This was the last time that I attended school in Mexico. I’m from Cuernavaca, Mexico and I arrived to the U.S on the summer of 1981, but I have never been enrolled in any type of classes here in the U.S.

And as you may ask, why after so many years am I going back to school? Well, all started just suddenly on March of 2009; when the company that I worked for so many years decided to move their business of making Printed Circuit Boards to China . Then, I and another 299 coworkers were officially unemployed. It wasn’t my first time to be laid off , but it was the first to be in a very difficult situation with the Country’s economy in bad shape . At this point is when the State and Federal Government offered us an opportunity to change careers or start a new one. So, here I am.

Perhaps, one of the most difficult decisions in all these years was going back to school then choosing the right career. At this point almost everybody told me to go for the best paid career which I did at first , but I started to think back in my working years , always working more for the money rather than because I liked to do that particular job . So, I changed my mind and I decided to enroll in Photography. I have always loved to express and share my point of view, so for me it is thorough Photography.

Photography, Art and English 097 were my first real college classes for the spring quarter of 2010 here at EVCC, nevertheless I have to admit that the hardest class has been English. Sometimes I feel that I’m a tiny ant floating down in a big river full of words , but as I look around me I see hundreds of more ants just like me trying to reach for a saving stick , softly handed by our wonderful savior … our Teacher .

At first , English was not my favorite choice for a class but as I go deeper and deeper into other classes , I realize that the only way to understand and be understood in any topic it is by having a good structure in the English grammar . I think you can take one class of anything in one hand and in the other your English class and then everything will go smooth. I remember when I watched lots of movies and T.V. shows I understood perfectly every single word they said but if I was reading a book there was a lot of extra words , that didn’t make sense to me . Now thanks to my class of English 97 I can see why the writer uses the commas and the quotes and just the whole mechanics . Is like before I was just reading in English and now I’m reading and understanding in English; Furthermore , now I can write at least a decent essay .

Finally I can tell you that it has not been easy at all, but after you tried you feel better, even if the results were not that good, because you can try as many times you need until you succeed .

So my friends , to show you a little bit more of myself and what I accomplished in English 97 I will include in my e-Portfolio some of my writings , I have chosen these ones because they are the most descriptive and the ones with my best memories.