Lu and Rose's Essays

I started off reading Lu's essay and by the time I was finished I found that it was very moving. Lu had to learn English along with her family and when she attended school she was not able to use her English knowledge, she was forced to speak in "standard chinese." Then, once a teacher spoke to her in English and Lu believed it was okay to use English, when everything changed on her one more time (forcing her to speak in Chinese once again). This angered me because when she wrote a report for school she wound up writing a completely different 2nd piece of writing because she couldn't express herself. I thought it was great cuz in the end she considered English her native language and was able to overcome her struggle with the time period in China. Lu and Rose both discussed about reading, however, Rose explained how there were problems with students and their comprehension. In "Crossing Boundaries", Rose found that on the tests that he would give the students they would not understand that they need to read the directions before beginning the tests. I guess, I'll wait to see if anyone comments or shares the same views as mine as I read the blogs.