For DR.SAMUELSON

My mom and Nora are my biggest inspiration, why are they? Because they helped me in reading and improving my reading and writing. My mom was an advanced-level Arabic teacher in the middle school, so that why she like to read and write. Also, my sister was the best reader of her school for three consecutive years. She always likes to read and write in her office in Saudi Arabia. So they are inspiring me to read and always they tall me “the reading well give you knowledge in the future”.

My Mother and Nora made my life quality better with the books. When I was 7 years old there Arabic book called the ‘The Shepherd Boy and The Wolf’, I always read that book because that book taught me the most important ethical value in our life is the honesty. The story of that book is ‘There was a village and there is a shepherd used to take his sheep to the lawns near the forest. One day he felt very boring. He wanted to have fun. So he cried aloud "Wolf, Wolf. The wolf is carrying away a lamb". Farmers working in the fields came running and asked, "Where is the wolf?” The boy laughed and replied, "It was just a fun. Now get going all of you". The boy played the trick for tow time in the next few days. After many days the boy was claiming up on a tree, as singing a song, there came a wolf. The boy cried loudly "Wolf, Wolf, The wolf is carrying a lamb away." There was no one to come. The boy shouted, "Help! Wolf! Help!" Still no one came to his help. The villagers thought that the boy was playing mischief again. The wolf carried a lamb away. So I learned from that story never lie and be honest in my life.

In the first years of my high school, I stopped reading and writing because we moved out of our neighbor, I had to change the school that I was in and leave my supportive friends and community. And join a school, which had less energetic classes, careless teachers they were not very supportive towards readers and writers and develop the skills I needed to improve my abilities, moreover, that made me weak in the skills I acquired when I was young. One time I told my classmates I love reading and writing they made fun of me. Also, I felt the loneliness in this school and felt left out I wanted to go back to my old life. When I asked my father to move back to our old neighborhood. my dad told me “it’s far way from my new job, we had no other choice but to live here.” So I needed to get along with other students in the school. I slowly started to hangout with new friends and I enjoyed their company and I became addicted with the technology and video games. So my sister noticed the weakness I had in high school, and gave me an advice that would have change the way I looked into Writing and Reading in high school.

I refused to listen to her, at that time while my performance in school went down hill.

After I graduated high school I was shocked of how low my grades were. So my sister got furious about my low grades and she blamed my new friends and she scolded and told me that: “you would have change the way I looked into Writing and Reading in high school but you didn’t respond to me” then she proceeded to tell me about if I cant read in my native language how can I go on to learn a new one. That really got me thinking about my future in the United States and learning a foreign language let alone read and writing in that language. This is why I believe English 1010 will be a great learning experience for me. It would give me a push to be better at reading and writing English through school and in my professional life after.

Now that I am older and wiser, I feel like its time for a change. I realized that reading is very important to me. It also would be very convenient for both my schooling and personal knowledge. From now on I will make myself a reading list to stay on track. I am very grateful for my mother and sister for being such great inspirations to better educate my self and for enforcing good habits in me. I am sure my mother will be very happy to know I am back to my old reading ways since it is a family tradition in our house to read and discuss books over tea in the afternoons. Eventually I am hoping to write my own book one day to share my experiences in life and maybe I would be an inspiration for people that are living in a foreign country.