Essex County College - Adult Learning Center -2019
Dreams of a Better Tomorrow
A Collection of Memoirs, Poetry and Intrigue
For an aspiring writer, just putting your thoughts to paper can be an achievement. Getting them published can be a game changer, in terms of building a writer’s confidence, especially for an ESOL or basic literacy student. Six of our students achieved that honor this year when their works were published in “Dreams of a Better Tomorrow, A Collection of Memoirs, Poetry and Intrigue.” The writers are Essex County Consortium students, including LVA’s own Clifford, who wrote about a little super hero; Damien mused about being a teen again in Sixteen; Gupreet looked at the horror of a young activist’s life in A Young Living Legend; Karima woke in the middle of the night with her thoughts spinning; and in Remembrance of Yesterday, Ligia fought for happiness to get past turbulent times in her piece.
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Clifford Henry
Who doesn’t dream of being a super hero when they are little? Clifford wrote The Little Superman, a story about a little boy’s dreams of being Superman and playing football. A football injury nearly break’s his father’s heart and the little boy’s dream.
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Damian Wilson
Wondering what it would be like to be 16 again, Damien wrote about in her memoir Sixteen about moving from Jamaica as a teen. She went to a training center to learn job skills and wonder what life would have been if she went to an American high school.
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Gurpreet Bhatia
Malala is a name familiar to many, but Gurpreet wrote about the terrible terrorist attack on the young Pakastani girl and how she sympathized with her. Her story, A Young Living Legend, writes about the impact this young woman had on the world and on the writer.
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Karima Ejjoulali
Waking the middle of the night with a mind spinning with ideas and questions, Karima remembers the time before her baby was born. Her middle of the night worries were calmed when she placed her hand on her growing belly.
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Ligia Avendano Alverez
Ligia moved from her native country of Columbia and wrote Remembrance of Yesterday about the turbulent time in her early days of parenting in a difficult marriage. And the surprise life held for her in the U.S. Little by little her painful memories have been replaced by happiness.
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Seung Hui Kim
Thinking about her mom’s most common sayings to her, Seung wrote Yes, I’d Love to Have More Mom. She doesn’t remember being told to do her homework, or clean her room. Seung’s memories were all about eating three meals a day and snacks.
Seung’s eyes glowed with light when she saw the printout of her library books, the bottom of the receipt showed how much she’d saved by borrowing instead of buying. Her tutor was a great influence in library borrowing too, Seung wrote about her love of libraries in How I Became a Library Enthusiast. |
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Dreams of a Better Tomorrow
A Collection of Memoirs, Poetry and Intrigue |
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