Dalma, Janille B.

BS Entrepreneurship 2A
Life and Work of Rizal
ACTIVITY:
Write a short biographical essay that compares your early childhood with that of Rizal’s.
How different or similar was your experience from Rizal?

Jose Rizal was known to be a smart kid in his early childhood education. At the
age of three, he learned the alphabet from his mother, could read and write at the age
of five and was good at spelling. Jose Rizal was a multi-talented child too. He was good
at sketching and sculpting, using clay and wax as his favorite material to play with.
When he entered his first school, he knew little about speaking in Spanish and Latin,
which his classmates found funny, but later finished his academe being the best student
in his school.
I was just a happy-go-lucky kid who loved to play with her friends in the barrio
every afternoon during my childhood education. I had a hard time learning my alphabet,
writing, and reading, and the worst was doing my math. My father thought was lazing
around, but the truth is, I was having a hard time understanding that kind of thing was a
late bloomer. My first teacher was my grandmother, and I remember the first three
letters that I learned to write at the age of four, which was my name
I remember when I first took my preparatory level at six. I did not know how to
speak English and was afraid of socializing with other kids because they were smart,
unlike me. My teacher way back then was very patient, helping and teaching me. After
class, she would call me at her desk and teach me how to pronounce each letter and
read, showcase my intelligence through coloring and drawing because, at that time, was
the only one who got the correct color palette of the human body, and I took pride in it. I
found myself fond of reading when started learning to read and collect books and
improving my drawing skills as grew up. I finished my elementary and high school days
with flying colors..