Me Talk Pretty One Day.

This week, I read the first two essays of David Sedaris's "Me Talk Pretty One Day."  The first essay is about David's lisp as a child.  David humorously describes the nature of his teacher and the activities done to correct his lisp.  David seems ashamed of his lisp when it becomes eminent to David that he has a speech impediment.  Once David learns that he cannot overcome his lisp, he simply avoids saying words with "s" sounds and learns synonym replacements of words with "s" sounds, thus increasing his vocabulary.

The second essay in "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is about David's guitar lessons.  David's dad is a huge fan of jazz music, and he wants David and David's sisters to learn instruments.  The father gets David a guitar and lessons to go along with it, but David tries to find excuses to skip guitar lessons.  David feels slightly inferior from his guitar teacher, but soon becomes sympathetic to his teacher because he is taunted because of his height (he is very small).