English has always been a class I have a love and hate relationship with. I migrated to New York from Ecuador in 2014 when I was just an 11 year old.  Adapting to a new country with a different language, a lot of different cultures, and just a very distinct environment to live around.  Starting school here  felt very weird since the only words I knew were “ hey”, “thank you” and “ may I use the bathroom.” After my first year of school here which was 6th grade, I passed the ESL test on my first trial. This meant after my first year I got moved from an ESL class to a regular English class which was a fast transition in 3 years from taking all my classes in Spanish to taking all my classes in English with language extra help to being in a regular English class. This was very difficult for me especially since I struggled with grammar even in my home language so trying to learn a whole new grammar setting with different types of letter pronunciations. Even till today, my pronunciations for some words are not perfect, it has been improving a lot every year but I feel it could be improved even more. And now going into college I want to get the best out of myself and be completely ready for the workforce. In this course I want my reading and writing to improve. I want to be able to write more professionally since I feel like I’m still at a pretty basic level. I work better when there’s feedback given to me constantly so I know where to improve in the future. Some obstacles I could have in the class is that when I read long texts I have difficulty in focusing and finding sense or connecting the reading. In addition, when it comes to managing time I have made myself a calendar with things I need to do since past years of school. I have been a procrastinator and it has affected me not just in my grades but personal life and I really want just to improve as a person. When it comes to activities outside of school I told myself to put school first in my list of responsibilities, that’s why I found a job where I could choose my schedule (uber eats). I really hope I can gain the most from this not just education wise since learning a language more and looking at things from a different perspective could have a great impact on me personally.