My English History

My English classes began during 5th grade. I came over from France at the age of nine, not knowing any English. Arriving to a State College middle school in which I was expected to speak and understand English was, therefore, a problem. I took ESL classes for six months, and then followed the same classes everyone else took all through middle school. The one difference being the Speech class I took last year, which was a mix of composition and public speaking, with some focus on learning to write to the intended audience, and trying to introduce our feelings into our styles of writing. Although I am not science oriented, writing has never been my area of expertise, or of interest for that matter. I spent countless hours reading, but the only thing I have ever written for myself (that was not required by some class) was a book that I never finished into which I incorporated a lot of my dreams. For my future careers, or at least, those I wish to enter, I know and understand that i will need to do a lot of writing. I would like to work on making my writing flow more. I find that as I write, ideas just come pouring out without a lot of transitions, which can make reading my writing much harder.