Anthology helps ESL students communicate their memories
| Rosa Venancio, a South Puget Sound Community College student born in Mexico, wrote that her first few years in the U.S. made her as scared as a small chick away from its mother. Fellow student Cuong To wrote about seeing snow for the first time: it really paints a beautiful picture that I could only watch in movies when I was in Vietnam. |  |
The English as a Second Language students were among the contributors to the department’s annual publication ESL Students Bring You the World, unveiled Thursday during a reception at the college. The publication started in 2002 in one class with 25 students. It has grown to 83 pages with more than 175 writers of many levels. The publication has grown because the number of students in the program and the percentage writing stories have risen, ESL teacher Heather Williams said. About 225 students take ESL classes in varying levels at SPSCC, she said. College president Gerald Pumphrey thanked the contributors before a program in which students read some of the stories.
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