As far back as I can remember I always had a hard time writing short stories, essays, and etc for any class I came across in schooling. I could imagine the root of my troubles of writing is perhaps that English wasn't my first language but my third. I was born overseas, Yokosuka Japan in fact. Nine months after I was born my mother took me back to her mother country, the Philippines. By the time I arrived in the United States I developed my mother's native tongue and started learning English with my mother at the same time. …
