My earliest experience of becoming literate goes back to me learning how to pray in Portuguese because my babysitter was from Brazil and I would spend most of my days and time with my babysitter. Although my parents speak Spanish, Portuguese seemed to be the language I felt more attached to. Since I was a kid I learned how important language was and how it flowed in dialogue and I thank my parents who taught me how to express myself as such. I tried my best to speak both English and Spanish but found it was so difficult as I didn't like to read because it would put me to sleep and I couldn't find myself focusing. I would read just to read, my father would sit me down on the table and have me read a book for at least an hour every other day and that made me hate reading even more. But I did find that my parents were the ones who encouraged me to learn Spanish and read the Spanish bible which helped me gain even more knowledge. Since I went to an English speaking school I had already gained some English terms to defend myself. 
I began to feel literate once I made a trip to Ecuador by myself at an early age I remember it was during summer vacation and that's where I felt how important it was to know things, in general, how to speak and capture someone's attention in their language. Coming back from that trip and starting up school again I was beginning to find what I like about what I didn't. I would be frustrated with my writing because it was difficult to find ways to write my feelings and that's a problem I have till this day, probably why I took the Business journey. I found I was big on math and stuck to it , but I also found that I liked listening to people and observing them for who they are and having views. My role model was and is my mom she taught me all I know till this day. 
As I evaluate myself now I see how I could use a little more of that reading strategy my father would have on me, reading a book for an hour and focusing. I feel being literate is so important nowadays people have opinions on those who are literate and someway somehow people will find ways to be literate. I am really big on traveling, learning about cultures, festivities, people, languages and it is what inspires my literacy development.