National Adult Literacy Database

October 12, 2009

This week, our story comes to us from Nanaimo, BC. The author, Mary Thompson, is enrolled in the literacy program at Literacy Central Vancouver Island (formerly Literacy Nanaimo). Mary drives her daughter to her lessons and she once sat in one of her daughter’s classes.  It was very helpful to both of them.  They now go to classes together.

Writing

by Mary Thompson

I sometimes find things I want to do are hard for me because of my spelling when it comes to writing. I now how I feel but when it comes time to write things down, this is when I find it hard. Sometimes when I go to bed I think what it would be like to be normal but then that would not be me. I would like to right a story for a contest but this is not going to be a story or a letter or a poem. This was to be a story but it is missing lots of words and I do not know how to find them. If I get help then it is not really me. Be your self and do your best.

[This story was taken with permission from In Our Own Words, September 2008, published by Literacy Nanaimo.]