Hello readers over the world,
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I will tell you about my experience about my hobby. You know One of my hobbies is writing. I have always used my writing since I was a Junior High students or a little girl . I have written many stories, poems on local newspapers in my Mother language . I have connected with many people around my country and also from Malaysia who can speak Indonesia or Malay through pen pall connection.
When I studied at University or as I got older, I learned English , I tried to have many friend s overseas. I believed at that time , writing can be done as a way to connect with people. I was very happy receiving the letters from others. They can make add my imagination to write other stories and beside that writing can develop my speaking, because I read much and of course I have many ideas for speaking. How nice it is..
When I became an English teacher, my love of writing was put to good use. I continued my hobby as a writer. You know when I read a local news paper, I got an interesting address. A sad story of old man from Ede, Netherland who has lost his family for 40 years. He wanted to meet his family but he did not know any more where they are. How sad I was. So I tried to write a letter to him and I like to be his relative. You know readers ? what happened ? Thanks God he replied mine and came to meet me in my country. He visited me happily and he proclaimed me as one of his family member Oh…I could not believe that. By this writing or connection, he was success finding his life family and I got a new family , You believe or not ? He or my adapted father always visits me every year to my house . He love all my family members and he really like this condition. How happy I am..
From that time I do not want to loss my competence as a writer in English. I always look for many chance to write and go to abroad to practice my speaking. Thanks God I have joined the teachers exchange program to Australia about four months and taught in BGHS school in Burwood Sydney, and I tried to write many of my relative in Singapore and Malaysia to go there and write every experience which I found in my new area. I have many experience there, but I have limited time to do. I am so busy at my school teaching. Next time I will do for you all .
To day I have good connection with a blog . It is called My EC, I can connect with English learners and teachers from all over the world. I use my blog to encourage learners to practice English through writing challenges. I will do this activity forever and I hope comments, messages from other readers in order to get improvement in my writing. I also invite all teachers of English over the world to do this useful activity if you do not mind. Please write what in your mind steps by steps . In a short I do my writing because I have got much , not only ideas to write but also ideas in doing my speech . In our community, bloggers have a special bonus. This club comes with a ready-made readership. I can't think of a better way for English learners and teachers to connect with each other than through blogging, as Tara benwell wrote.
Comments
Very interesting story Erna. Family is important and we may forget just how much until we lose them. Mickey was trying to let you know that you had a typo error in the title: WHI I WRITE instead of WHY I Write. Sometimes I find mistakes in mine too. I just click on Edit Blog Posts. You can actually go back to any of your posts and make corrections, add photos or whatever.
Before I edit mine I always copy it and paste it somewhere else. Once I did not do that and accidentally lost the whole post. Thanks for the great story!
Thank you for taking part in this month's writing challenge! You have shared so many great ways to illustrate how writing helps you connect with people from all over the world. I have shared your post on twitter using #write2connect in celebration of today's National Day of Writing.
Cheers,
Tara
Inspiring Blog :)
I didn't know that it is possible to have a family member from just writing ... amazing :)
Ma'am thank you for your blog :)
After read your blog, i found you have skills to write awesome blogs....
By the way, I write "WHY" as "why". giggling~
Amazing experience, dear Erna! Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed your blog. How is the Dutch man now?
Your experience is inspiring! ;-)