Reading and Writing Assignment 1

     Reading is the easier part of English for me. I'm not sure how it is for everyone else, but when I read I play out the events and dialogue I read in my head. It's really like watching a movie, and I create my own characters and voices and settings. I think reading is easier because there is nothing to create. You do not have to think deeply in reading; only decipher or translate the words that are shown to you. Other people would say that they cannot comprehend what they read, and I encounter this often too. I commonly read over a couple paragraphs and realize I wasn't even thinking about what I was reading. This tends to happen when I'm stressed and have other things to worry about. Other than that when I read, I read quickly and efficently without delay.
     My latest reading experience was reading the common reader book, "Where Am I Wearing?". The book started off quite slow, and there was a lot of unnecessary background information that didn't relate to anything. I really wasn't liking this book with the author who pretended he was your old pal and thought he was using witty jokes when I coudln't even bring myself to laugh in my head. However, when the author finally started to become serious about his mission and began to care, that was when the book suddenly became interesting and I began to actually want to read. In essecence, this book was both a good and a bad reading experience.
     My latest writing experience that was rather good was the English essay we had to do online for Ball State, pertaining to the common reader book. I began not knowing how to start my essay, without a valid point or sensible thought. But as I threw myself into the writing headfirst, I quickly corrected my mistakes and began breezing through the essay. Before I had known it, I had met the requirement of at least 500 words, then as I read through what I had wrote, I realized that I had left a point unexplained. I then began to breeze through the newest addition to my essay as well. By the time I was done, I had nearly met the maximum limit of words for the essay; 1000 words. I had typed 980 words. I was massively impressed with myself! I hadn't even meant to, but I had nearly maxed out my essay, where all my friends were having such trouble. Again, this essay was both a good and a bad writing experience... but I was proud of myself this time.