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In kindergarten, I first started learning vowels and then the letters of the alphabet. I also learned the sounds associated with most of the letters of the alphabet. I'm in the middle of the right side in the picture.
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I started reading in first grade. "Alegria de leer" (Joy of Reading) was one of the 5 top books that teachers used in class to help kids start reading. Most of the stories were related to family traditions.
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I remember that I loved reading stories that taught me a moral or a lesson like the Fox and the Little Red Hen and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse.
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I started enjoying reading fiction and non-fiction books when I was 11 or 12 years old. One of my favorite tail of adventures was "The adventures of Tom Sawyer", by Mark Twain.
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The Diary of Anne Frank greatly impacted me. Her courage never diminished even when it was evident that all hope was lost. She inspired me to be a strong and a kind person as she was.
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In one of my History classes, we had to read books about Myths and Legends like The Adventures of Ulysses and The Iliad of Homer.Those books taught me what it means to be human and about the natural man (man at his best and worst).
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Nobel Literature Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian author from this time; One Hundred Years of Solitude is in my opinion his best book. It is about the story of Macondo, an isolated town in the middle of a swamp, whose history is like the history of Latin America on a reduced scale.
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I wasn't a good cook. That is way I started reading recipe books. I love Colombian, Italian, and Greek food. The picture shows the typical food from Barranquilla: tilapia, coconut rice, plantain, and salad.
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One of my birthday presents was the book "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" by Pablo Neruda. After I finished reading that book I have continued reading poetry books because they allow one to see into the soul of another person, see what is weighing on their minds and on their hearts.
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When my son was born I started reading books about raising babies. Padres liberados, hijos liberados ( Liberated Parents, Liberated Children ) by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. It is an entertaining and informative book.
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The Dr. Seuss book collection. This is the year that I started reading books in English. They are great books that helped me to learn new words every day, read, and comprehend what I was reading.
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The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher, by Harry Wong is an excellent book. It is about classroom management, student achievement, and teacher effectiveness.
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Great book for math teachers. It relates Algebra to the real world and provides practice problems with detailed solutions.
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The Holy Bible. I haven't stop reading the Bible since I started attending bible study classes at Calvery Chapel. What can I say, It is the most read book in the world.
