RUNNING HEAD: Second Language Fluency Second Language Fluency Kim Brown Grand Canyon University: ESL-523N January 23, 2013 Sandra Brown was born in Mexico City, Mexico and came to the United States in the year 1995. For Mexico education begins very early. Preschool is very intense and the children start learning at the ages of three or four. The children in preschool go through three very difficult levels of learning before they even get to the first grade. the public schools in Mexico are free and required up to the ninth grade.
She is now once again fit and feels good about herself. She has joined a gym and attends the gym 2-3 times a week, she participates in several walk a thons every year, and she has taken up salsa dancing. She says that although she loved sports before, her current leisure activities are very rewarding to her. She does say that it is much harder now to lose those extra pounds whereas before it would be very
test and get paid to do whatever he wants in life. Joshua is graduating high school at the age of sixteen. He is being homeschooled for his last year of school. This allows him to get all the courses he wants and needs and at his pace instead of the slow speed of the school. His speaks parts of many different languages that he learned from his mother.
I got my license and a car at age sixteen. In Seymour all the schools are within one-hundred yards of one another so it was pretty common to know the same people from age five and on. Weekends for me were a mix of dates, work, and hanging out with my old friends. Even now the same people I played on the playground with in preschool are the same ones I go to the bar with in college. I'm currently a senior at the
When I was growing up I was never given all the things that I wanted, my parents taught me that I had to work had if I wanted anything, that I only got what I needed not what I wanted. From a young age my parents would make me do chores around the house inside and out along with my siblings and return we would get pocket money at the end of
I am Mark Palmer. I was born in Detroit, I am 18 years old, I love music, and I plan to go into Nursing and then furthering my career into Anesthesia. I was born June 14, 1994 and was the only child all the way up until November 15, 2005. I moved around a lot when I was in Elementary, Middle, and High School. When I first started school, I attended F.L.I.C.S.
My grandmother was born in Warsaw. She is the only known person to have been born in the courthouse where her father was the caretaker. My dad was the first of our family to go to college, which his parents demanded he do. He is now an engineer working at Printek designing printers. All of my dad’s side of the family is religious,
ENGLISH 100 CARMEN CARCAMO My mother is from Mexico, moved to Guatemala a week after marrying my father in Mexico city, my father, a only child, raised in a rural place by his grandparents in a small town of Guatemala, none of them with any information regarding schools and educational choices. I have had many different experiences with language in two different areas. Since my parents decided to enroll me in a German speaking school, just because the sons of my godparents were already enrolled in that particular school. I spent 14 years of my life in an Austrian Institute, were I started to attend, when I was 4 years old, I heard the German language all morning and part of the afternoons. Since all my teachers were from Austria and all my classes were in German with exemption of the grammar class and social studies in Spanish.
September 2,2012 Charles Stewart Dear Coach Lenon, I am fourteen years old and was born in Waco, Texas. My Mom is Shirley Stewart and she was born in Los Angeles, California but later moved to Houston with her parents when she was young. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University in . My dad used to be a 18 wheeler truck driver who traveled all across the country including Canada and has been to every state in the US except Hawaii and Alaska. I first started school at a private school called The Imani school.
My father has always had truck; all of my uncles on my mother’s and father’s side have trucks, also my only girl cousin. I bought a 2007 Chevrolet Colorado. I paid off my truck on April 20, 2008. My truck, taught me more responsibility than anything else in my life. It taught me how to be more responsibly with the money that I spend, and to save a percent of my paycheck.