Public speaking has never been my forte. Speaking, in general, has never been my forte. Part of the reason is due to my fear of public speaking; which only increased when I began high school. What also increased was my passion for justice. I am afraid of speaking out at times, but when I hear something I don’t think is right, I have to speak up. For the most part, I loved my English 11 class. The teacher was great,...

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets It had been a little over a year since I’d truly started speaking English. I’d struggled in second grade, but now that I was in third grade, I was rocking at it. I still had trouble pronouncing new words that I’d encounter, but that’s an everyone thing. Okay, I pronounced trachea...