your story with english

[أحمد بوفاريك]

Well, I enjoyed reading all your stories, every story is different than other.
My story with English it's a little bit different too.

It started when I was at my fourth grad of primary school, I was 10, in our town -Boufarik- we had three schools they had some a unique experience and my old school -Oumu Salama- was one of them.
We had the choice to choose between French or English as a foreign lang_uage, so I want to my dad and I asked him about what I should choose, he told me look son, I can not choose for you, but I will help you to take the right choice, so he told me about French and how it's a limited lang_uage, just a few people who talk with it, and how English how it's an international lang_uage and how most people speak English, honestly I gave a whole conference, I can remember it, I was just ten

So I took my decision and I choosed my first foreign lang_uage as English , I thought I will be alone there, but we were about 37 students, we had the most lovely English teacher ever Miss Zhour, she was ... honestly I need so much time to explain how she was wonderful, and how she educated us before she taught us, she is amazing teacher, I never forget her.
I can not forget that lovely time, when I met new people and they ask me about school, and when they ask me about French, I answer them "I'm sorry I don't speak French" most of them asked me this question "why !! because they don't let you, right!!" - For people who don't know about the life at the 90's in Algeria, some places here in Algeria, some people they were not okay about learning foreign lang_uage, specially French, their reason is because foreigners are unbelieving people, so I know many people from my generation who didn't learn French for many years, some of theme they learned it until high school- returning to me now, well my answer about their question "why you don't speak French" it will be " because I speak English" you can not imagine the look at their faces, "a little boy as you can speak English ... wow that's amazing, you must be a genius, speak to me in English" well, I just say the usual "My name is Ahmed I'm ten, I live ..." they open their mouths and say "wow" we were kings, sometimes I pass by a coffee house or some public place, and they call me "hey boy come here ... speak to this person in English, I told him that you could but he didn't believe" so I say the usual magical words " Hello, my name is Ahmed I'm ten, I live ... bla bla bla" hahah great time anyway I can remember many things about English I have a looooooooooooooooong story with it, maybe next time I will tell you about something else.

May Allah bless you all,

Salam