Sally sold sea...uhg!

The connection between all of these stories is obvious. Each story tells the tale of the struggles to learn. They are life changing events that for us, came quite easily, but for these writers it was an obstacle to be overcome. They struggled to learn to read and write and even how to speak the language without mistakes. As i read these stories, I tried to think of times in my life where I struggled to achieve something academically. Of course there were numerous occasions when I was given a task at school and I fell short of this goal. The one story I think best relates to the stories in our book is about how I finally overcame my lisp. When I was younger, my dad used to come up into my room and make me repeat over and over, "Sally sold sea shells by the sea shore." I am lisp free now, and I still say that that phrase is difficult to repeat. I guess I don't remember the specific moment when I stopped replacing my "s's" with the "th" sound, but it used to be so hard for me as a child that even to this day, I give myself a little pat on the back every time I come across a sentence full of s's and it doesn't trip me up.