To­day we hear from stu­dent Flo­rence as she shares the sto­ry of her jour­ney with AL­TA and how it has trans­formed her life.

More than four months ago, I de­cid­ed that I want­ed to join an AL­TA class. Af­ter hear­ing my good friend Deanne talk about this AL­TA class, it sound­ed in­ter­est­ing be­cause I love to read but spelling and pro­nounc­ing big words is some­what of a chal­lenge for me. The de­scrip­tion she gave of AL­TA suit­ed me just right. The class is free and I didn’t need any more en­cour­age­ment, so on that to­day I signed up and was ac­cept­ed.

That first day I felt anx­ious, as the time drew near­er for my first AL­TA class to be­gin. I was very ex­cit­ed to be par­tic­i­pat­ing in an on­line class for the very first time in my life. I was cu­ri­ous to meet the tu­tors and oth­er stu­dents. I am thank­ful there is no fee to pay for this class. I don’t have to sit in a noisy class­room, and the in­for­ma­tion I re­ceived in AL­TA class is de­signed to help per­sons who have prob­lems with their read­ing, spelling and writ­ing.