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Bellevue College Experience Analysis

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When I started my classes at Bellevue College, I did not speak a lot of English it was difficult for me to learn fast. I felt helpless, unhappy, jaundiced, etc. My problem was that I was a slow reader due to the reason of now knowing a lot of English. The consequences of that matter, were bad, I was not doing well in my English classes, and either could not understand other classes. To do a homework, I had to read it more than five times, and it would take me forever. Until I got help from the disability center at Bellevue College. It took me a long time to accept that I had a disability problem, and in the other hand, I need it to get extra help for my classes. This experience helped me to understand many people who have the same problem like

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