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Big Bird used to be my best friend until I met Harry Potter. I never had any imaginary friends to play with so I had to turn to Count Dracula, Oscar the Grouch, and Grover to entertain me during long, rainy afternoons in the Philippines. Having been fostered by the muppets from birth, I developed a lifelong desire to learn and be exposed to words of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Sesame Street raised me to be the proper citizen that I am now. My childhood is filled with memories of hours spent in front of the television learning how to count to twelve and reciting my ABCs then laughing cynically at the end; which I did not refrain from doing until I was eleven years old and only because my mother deemed it inappropriate. Looking back, I can clearly see how and why I turned out the way that I did. The story plots, the lessons of the day, the characters in the show all contributed to broadening my sense of understanding and quest for eternal learning.At age seven, not only raised by the muppets but also tabloid magazines, I read my horoscope in two languages daily and kept up with celebrity gossip religiously. My fifteen-year old cousin would bring home stacks of year-old tabloids and we would go through it together. Since we w
I perceived it as a lovely work of fiction, even if I attended a Catholic School run by nuns. At the end of my first year, my tongue became so twisted and conformed to English that I couldn't even say "Good Morning" in Tagalog anymore. I was introduced to some of the best authors who ever penned a novel. Salinger, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. Being an adult in a place you only remember as a child, brought back fantastic and sentimental memories. I remember the feelings each novel invoked within me, which to this day, continue to resonate in my mind. My (real human) best friend had been encouraging me to give Harry a try and that morning, I succumbed. I met Harry Potter in the summer of 2001 while visiting the Welsh countryside. My parents insisted on speaking English at home so my sisters and I could get better at it. In those days I spent cooped up inside a cozy Welsh cottage, my love for beautiful stories was again ignited. In high school, I was fortunate to have been placed in great English classes. The film version of the book was already in post-production and slated for a November 2001 release. I chose a diverse selection: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Great Gatsby by F. I realized the power of immersing yourself in a new world through pages and pages of words so I kept on reading.
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