Megan Rego
My personal essay

My life started in January of 1990. I was raised with two languages, English and Portuguese; speaking them fluently by age three. Speaking Portuguese was a way to communicate with my grandparents, along with a few of my aunts and uncles. Being the first generation born in America, it has been my responsibility to keep up with both languages because speaking another language is a great benefit in many things. I went to a preschool for bilingual children to learn how to distinguish when to speak the two different languages separately. After preschool I went on to a school called Saints Peter and Paul, which went from kindergarten to eighth grade. In my nine years of attending this school, I learned all I needed to know about grammar, literature, and creative writing for my age.
I then went on to high school where I learned even more about writing and was starting to learn different skills in improving my writing. On teacher there changed the way I looked at writing in many ways. His way of teaching inspired my writing to the best it had ever been. He made me want to write and improved a lot of my work. I learned great techniques to get the reader’s attention and keep throughout my story.
The best paper I ever wrote was a research paper on Alzheimer’s disease and how it affects the elderly and their loved ones. It was my first A+ I had ever gotten on an English paper and I saw it as a big accomplishment.