National Adult Literacy Database

December 17, 2012

Paul working with his tutor at the Spring Garden Road Adult Learning Program

This week, the stories are written by students with the Halifax Community Learning Network. The story below was written by Paul Ochalla, from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Paul is originally from Sudan and works on his literacy skills with a tutor at the Spring Garden Road Adult Learning Program in Halifax.

Learning at the Library

by Paul Ochalla

My name is Paul Ochalla. I am from the Sudan. I moved to Canada a few years ago. I am now living in Canada. I spoke English before I came to Canada but I did not know that I had a learning disability. They sent me to SpellRead. I went there and I read 55 books. I am still working on my pronunciation. I also try to work on my sentences. That is what I am doing now. The SpellRead helped me a lot. Thanks for the people who worked hard to get me to that program.

I came to the library to work on my pronunciation and math. I have been coming to the library for many years now. I got the help I have been looking for and I learned a lot. For example, math and long division was hard for me, but now I could do it. Also, writing sentences was my big problem but now I am getting good at it. Thanks for the people at the library. They helped me for many years that I have been coming. I think it is a good thing that we have programs like this.