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  I am passionate about reading but that passion was developed over the years. Let me take you through my journey with reading. In kindergarten, I started with reading aloud. At that time, I remember that most kids in my class had started reading in their head. My kindergarten teacher was not that encouraging, saying that I would never be a good reader. As you can tell I got off to a really rocky start with reading but I didn't let that stop me from continuing to try to read. I admit that my mom really encouraged me and taught me to be persevere in reading. My mom loves reading and I started going with her to the Weston Public Library. I recall one week I read so much and made so much progress in reading that I think I read for about 7 hours and finished 25 books. My reading improved the most towards the beginning of second grade when I read the whole Magic Tree House series. In the summer of third grade, I signed up for my first summer reading program and read over 50 complex chapter books. This is also when I read the famously well-known series, Harry Potter. Around this time, I started reading many chapter book series and found my favorite author, Rick Riordan. I constantly kept reading more and more books authored by Rick. In the summer of fourth grade, I signed up for my second summer reading program. In the program, I read double the amount of books I read in the previous program and I completed all of the quests on the library’s online website which gives you raffle tickets. After that summer camp, I got into one of my greatest periods for reading. I was reading on average 3 books a day at home. This is when I really fell in love with reading. From that day to today, I visited my town’s library so much that all of the librarians decided it would just be easier to memorize my library card number:) I find reading very relaxing and I cannot fall asleep without reading for at least 1 hour or more.  Till now, I have read between 5,000 to 7,000 books altogether. I plan to start a book club of close home and school friends passionate about reading. 

Writing is my passion, and I like to write a lot during my free time. I have a long history of writing. In fact, it all started with me hating writing.  So, I have known how to write since kindergarten, but back then, my handwriting was really big. So, I would write, only a few words would fit onto a page. Then, in first grade, I started to be able to write on lined paper, and my font/writing size decreased. But I am left-handed, and almost everybody else in my class was right-handed. That made me feel different, so for most of first grade, I tried writing using my right hand but that was very difficult and unnatural and made me hate writing. Then, in the second grade, I continued with my writing and started to learn how to type. I wasn't that good with writing or typing. In the third grade, I started writing multiple books with my friends in the hope of getting them published. This was about the time when I started loving writing.  It is mainly because of my amazing teacher, Mr. Glode, who always encouraged me to write. Around this time, I started practicing my typing on a website my school gave. I remember one day; I spent 3 hours locked up in my room computer room typing a story on the website. In the fourth grade, I learned the basics of writing in cursive and started to type on the computer more. In the 5th grade, I memorized the format of the perfect essay. I also mastered many different writing forms like persuasive, informative, narrative, novel, memoir, and even poetry. One of the pieces from 5th grade that I still remember is a speech essay that I wrote about Messi's life. This speech was detailed and was over 20 pages long. Now, in the current 6th grade, even though the school year has just started, I have still done a lot of writing. I am the best writer in my humanities class and have written the best articles for my class newspaper. I am constantly praised by my writing teacher, and I am the most active member of my school newspaper. Writing thousand-word memoirs about my experiences. I feel that I have excelled in writing and hope to keep on doing it as a hobby because, as you can tell, I just find it very fun and calming.