Believe it or not I actually enjoy reading. For some reason people get surprised when they hear that someone likes to read and I don't understand why,but to be honest I don't know why I enjoy reading. Maybe because in a book everything makes sense eventually and I like when things make sense. I like to read mysteries, because of the suspense they can build, and while at first things might be confusing in the end the mystery is solved and everything makes sense. In my life and everyone's life most of the stuff that happens doesn't make sense. A couple examples are  AP Lit essays, the district giving us random snow days and why people care about grades so much. Maybe books give me a break from things that don't make sense, maybe that's why I like them.

When I was younger I learned a lot from just listening. I would hear one of the people at my daycare read me a story and then go ask my mom to tell it to me again. Unfortunately my mom did not speak English too well. so i had to figure something out. I would memorize the stories in English and Spanish and eventually I could translate it and then it lead to me learning how to read.Once I learned how to read everything made sense. I could read to myself, and i think it helped me master both languages faster.  I remember a book that was about a cow that went "oink". This poor cow didn't have any friends because all the other cows went "moo". eventually in this book the cow finds a pig that says "moo". They both immediately become friends and try to teach each other how to say the noises they are supposed to make. In the end  they can both say "oink" and "moo" and they can finally communicate with their fellow animals. As i was writing this i finally realized why I liked the book, it finally makes sense. I liked the book because it was about me, I can speak both English and Spanish and I can communicate with  two different culture and types of people. If i had not met people who had been nice enough to teach me the languages when I was younger I would have been an outsider just like the cow. Nothing would have made sense if i couldn't understand what people were saying, I would not have been able to learn as much as i have learned (yes i also like learning). Without knowledge nothing can make sense and me being the person I am, that would suck. Maybe one of the reasons I enjoy reading is because when I was younger I subconsciously realized that reading would help me later in life.