2.6.4: Paragraphs for Writing

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Don Bissonnette
South Seattle Community College

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Paragraphs for Writing

Who I Am

My name is Donald Bissonnette, and I am an ESL teacher in South Seattle Community College. I have taught at this college for half my life. I am 70 years old and I have taught here for 36 years. I think that next year will be my final year of teaching here as a full time teacher. After that, I might become a part time teacher. Twenty hours of teaching is a lot of work for someone my age because, besides teaching, I also have to do a lot of homework, reports to write, and many meetings to attend every week. I will need to relax more and do less work as I get older. However, I am very happy now as a full time teacher.

Every Weekday Activities

Every morning I wake up at 6:00 o’clock in the morning. After I get up, I get dressed, go to the toilet, make my coffee and breakfast, brush my beard and teeth, and leave home for school. I pick up my friends Roger and Sara, and we get to school around 7:35. I begin classes at 8:00 and finish classes at noon. After that, I have office hours from Monday to Wednesday from noon till 1:00. From 1:00 till 3:00, I prepare my lessons for the next day and correct homework papers. Roger, Sara, and I leave the college at 3:00 every day. Sometimes Roger and I stop at the Park Pub for one or two glasses of beer. We never drink more than two glasses. I get home around 4:00 o’clock and immediately finish my school work. Usually I work in my garden until it gets dark outside. After that, I eat dinner with my family, read or watch television, and then I go to bed between 10:00 and 11:00 o’clock.

Boyhood Days

My life was very different when I was a boy. For one thing, I didn’t have many “real” responsibilities. Basically, all I had to do was feed our animals every day and clean their cages when they got dirty. Also, on Saturdays I had to wash the floors and stairs in the house. Of course, I also had to do all of my school responsibilities, too. In addition, in winter I had to shovel the snow and clear the ice off the sidewalks and paths around our house. After that, though, all I had to do was have fun. In spring and summer, I swam in the pond in back of my house and played basketball and baseball in the open field near my house. In fall and winter, I played football and went ice skating. A lot of the time, my friends and I just hung out and did nothing because we had a lot of free time. Life was really very easy then.

School Days

School days when I was a boy were different from school days now as a man. Every morning my mother woke me up around 7:00 AM. I hated to get out of bed, especially in winter when it was very cold outside. My mother made breakfast for my brother, sister, and me. After that, we caught the school bus and spent all day in school. I enjoyed school although I always told my friends that I hated school. Most boys “hated” school although I think that most boys really enjoyed school. We all just said we hated school because it was only girls who loved school and boys didn’t want to be like girls. Yuk! My favorite subjects were history and English. Of course, all the boys “hated” English class. At least that is what we said. I loved it, though, and I especially loved grammar class. I never admitted that I loved grammar class, but I did. Maybe that is why I love teaching grammar now. I believe that I know grammar well now because I paid attention and loved it in school as a boy.