The End........

The end of the semester has finally come. This semester was a very interesting for me. I learned a lot of things that I will use in my future. One thing is for sure, when I send out an email at work, I am much more aware of my grammatical errors, and find myself revising each and every email I send out. I also now have a tendency to correct my wife’s text messages she sends me. I still make errors, and don't completely understand it all, but this class has made a drastic difference in anything I write. I also realized this semester how much I actually enjoyed reading. I now try and regularly take a trip to the local library with my kids, and not only do we pick out books for them, I will pick out a book to read myself. I find reading a stress reliever, never thought I would be saying I love to read. I can count on one hand how many books I had read in the last ten years, and until this semester started, I hadn’t read a single book since high school.......bad, I know. I would read magazines, and newspapers, etc., but never books. I now love to read books about hunting, and I actually am enjoying a John Grisham book right now. 

                When this semester started, I thought this English class would be the death of me. English was not my favorite subject, and all I kept thinking of is my high school English instructor, Ms. Schultz, she was a crazy old lady.  She stood about 5 ft. tall and weighed about 80 pounds soaking wet. She was the toughest lady I have ever met, she was also the mouthiest little thing, and nobody got away with anything in her class. She could take down the naughtiest kid in the class with just her mouth. Yes ……she had a way with words that I will never forget.  I was deathly afraid of her when I took my first class with her, but as time went on, I grew to like her. In fact she taught me so much. So when I enrolled in this class, the first thing I thought of was Ms. Schultz. Much to my surprise, not all English teachers are like Ms. Schultz. I thoroughly enjoyed this class and really liked the discussion boards, blogs, and reading The Glass castle. Next semester, its back to the business classes, I am looking forward to that also, but this English class was an enjoyable break from them.