What is Literacy for Me?
You don’t graduate with a degree in English Literature without some level of nerdiness. This nerdiness can take the form of hipster glasses and late nights in the Bourgeois Pig reading Dostoyevsky; it can look like the girl sitting by the pool with Harry Potter; or it can be the girl voraciously reading books never imagined because they transport her - - constantly seeking the elusive high of well written words on a page. At various points in my life I have been all of these girls, but ultimately, I have become the last. Though my journey with literacy has taken various forms over the course of my life, each of these forms has served to develop my hunger for the power of a well written book to transport from one set of assumptions and knowledge sets to another allowing me as the "literate" person to access not only to my own thoughts and emotions but also those of others. What follows is my story: the story of a very average girl, who found in books the power to access the extraordinary.
