Why I didn’t like English at school.

When I went to school I really didn’t like my English lessons. I liked biology and the other natural sciences. I wanted to spend all my time reading about animals and nature. For me English was so boring and I felt that I was wasting my time. I think one of the reasons was my first English teacher. She was a cold and strict women.  I don't think she liked her work at all. Every lesson we just wrote dictations and if you had a mistake you had to write down the word repeatedly until you had used up one page in your copybook. I had a lot of mistakes so I spent a lot of time writing again and again. I really hated it. Although I wrote a lot I didn't remember the words at all.
Then I was a child I had one more problem. My grandmother likes reading books in English very much. When she was a student she didn’t have any possibilities to speak in English because at that time our country was closed to foreigners. So she read a lot of English books and she was very worried about me. She tried to show me how interesting reading books in English can be. But for me it was so boring to sit one or two hours reading about a small green man who lives in a tree…and looking up new words in an English dictionary. When my grandmother came with this book I hid and tried to read as little as possible. Finally my grandmother gave up and didn’t try any more. So by the time I finished school I knew only simple rules and general words. 

But when I came to university I suddenly fell in love with English. My university teacher was very nice and taught me how to speak. She gave us a lot of interesting materials for reading and never failed us for making mistakes. At that time I started to meet people who didn't speak Russian. And the only way to communicate with them was to start speaking English.
So now I want to improve my English as much as possible.