My Experience as an ESL Student

My experience as being an ESL student has been quiet good. When I came to Canada and went to school, I was feeling so scared because of my English. My first day of Canadian school was not so good because I could not understand anything or could not talk to anyone. Many students were being nice and friendly to me but also some of the students were making fun of my English. What I was speaking was not understandable. Sometimes I used to give wrong answers and because of that and I was feeling so unhappy when I saw everybody speaking English well.

Then I started to go to ESL classes and I saw there were many students who just came from other countries and their English was like mine. Then I realized that it was not just me who could not speak English. My friends who came to Canada many years before told me that at one time, their English was like mine and it got better with time. So it gave courage to me and I learned that no one gets perfect without working hard and that's how you learn something when you don't know. I started to speak English with my best effort and all of my shyness went away for English. I found that learning a new language was not that easy but it was also not that hard that I could not do it. So, there are many things that require you to work harder but it teaches you a lot by doing it.

Kindness

Kindness shows good manners. Being kind with someone helps them to feel happy and nice. One of my first experiences with kindness was when I was about ten years old. I was going to buy my favourite food at the store with my money. Suddenly I saw some poor people and small children who looked like they were really hungry and hadn't eaten in so many days. I thought I could eat my favourite food some other day and I should help these poor people. I went into the store and bought some food for them. I gave the food to them and they thanked me for it. I was a bit sad that I couldn't get my favourite food but when I saw them eating it, I couldn't imagine their pleasure and how happy they were. After that, all of my unhappiness went away and I felt good about my self. I was so happy that I had helped someone by sacrificing my money and my food. When I told my parents about it, they applauded my sacrifice. So that's how I had been kind to someone.

I also learned that the truth in choosing to be kind is one of the greatest, best, most beautiful and most loving things that we can ever do. I want to continue committing acts of kindness by saying hello to people in the school hallways and sharing a smile with them. I also want to clean a neighbor's walk once a week. That's my plan for spreading kindness.