Learning is not easy if lacks of interest and knowledge, especially concerning literature subject. It is hard to admit that, being one of the slow learners in class had left me far behind grades of distinction students.
But it is this teacher way of, I should say, guiding us in literature had inculcated reading habits and appreciating literature more. Her approaches in creative writing always start with citation or quoting from any interesting text. Being knowledgeable as she is, she glued us with how she used literary texts directly reflect experience of what happens in the world, in country and in our community.
Grasping all the teaching in trying to building bridges between the experiences in ourselves and the experiences described in the work of literature. It is worthwhile of listening and paying attention, which we were able to convey our own experiences in our writing. It does inspire us in one way or another. For her, it is how we can reflect our life's experience and to understand is all that matter. And she believes literature is to self discovery, along the process, we will able to appreciate literature and to realize how literature can change us in many ways.