Narrativas Coletadas por Carla Reichmann
TIMELINE STORY
My first contact with English was when I was studying the 4th grade at school. My friends and I got very excited with the idea of to study a new language. But it finished very fast, when I got a low grade in our first English test I got frustrated with this experience. Then, I learned how to study for the tests and things were getting better, although my teacher just touch us the verb to be.
Having already passed some years, I went to high school at the Lyceu Paraibano and there I realized how much I had learned and how I liked English. The best of everything was when I understood that although I had studied at the school in Pilar (a small city where I live) and all my friends in good schools of Joao Pessoa, I knew more than them. So, the most important thing isn’t where you study or what kind of school you attend, the main thing is your will power to do what you are doing.
It was because of university that I really began studying English. In 2000 I passed in PSS and started studying “Letras” at UEPB, but in 2001 I gave up my course because I didn’t want to teach. So, I took a test to study Tourism at UFPB, and there I paid a discipline of exchange language and I had to take English, but at the moment class started, and the teacher just spoke English all the time, I got scared and gave up of this discipline.
Looking at this situation I decided to look for an English course where I could learn how to speak English. After a few days, I began studying English at CCAA. In that time another thing happened: I had a boyfriend who also wanted to study English just to talk to me without anybody understands, it’s a little bit funny, but he never began his course.
In my classroom at UFPB I had three friends who promised to start an English course too. Until now, these friends of mine didn’t begin anything and I’m sure they’ll regret it someday. Since 2001 I’m studying at CCAA and I’ve been learning lots of things in English, I can say my life really changed after this course because education can change our lives, it expends our point of view, and our chance to do what we want in the world.
In fact, my course helped me in many areas of my life, after this opportunity I can read books and listen to music in English and it was a dream of mine. Now I can say that I can reach my objectives and get a good job in a globalized world.
I know that it’s not easy to spend a lot of time studying, but you have to sacrifice some things in your life if you want to win in the end. I’m already seeing the results of this course, I’ve been teaching English in a public school of my city for six months and it’s been so gratifying to help people learn new things and show them another side they didn’t know.
During this short time I’ve been seeing some things that get me worried and bad. In my classrooms there are some students who love to study and wish they could finish the school, but their husband don’t permit them to accomplish their dreams. It’s horrible to know that in our days still exist people who think in this way.
Now I’m doing this course for teachers here at UFPB and I’m loving to do it, it’s giving me a big opportunity of learn with the experiences of my classmates and I expect to learn different ways and forms to pass the subject for my students besides growing in my professional life.
