by Olga Brajnović | Dec 10, 2020 | challenges, Memories, our life
Born in exile, I went to school knowing nothing about Spanish, the language of the country in which I lived. I didn’t understand a word of what the teachers and the other kids were saying, and I became very shy. I couldn’t understand the teachers’...
by Olga Brajnović | Apr 2, 2014 | daily prompt
Which subject in school did you find impossible to master? Did math give you hives? Did English make you scream? Do tell! When I was little I couldn’t master reading and writing. First, I didn’t know a word of Spanish because is not my motherly language....
by Olga Brajnović | Nov 30, 2013 | bad luck, daily prompt
Tell us about a time you found out after the fact that you’d been mistaken and you had to eat a serving of humble pie. Because of my dyslexia I made a mistake once writing a note with a press release about a bishop. A big mistake. I’m not going to reproduce it...
by Olga Brajnović | Jun 9, 2013 | daily prompt, our life
When I was a little girl I thought I wasn’t normal because I was not the average girl in school. I was the only one non Spanish in my class, the only one that didn’t know the language and I had to struggle with dyslexia. Back then, there was no so much...
