The people who inspired me...

I started thinking about my highschool yesterday as I got an email from an old peer from Classmates.com. I looked him up but didn't remember him. I was surprised to see our yearbook cover displayed. It made me feel quite proud as I designed the artwork for the cover.

While perusing through my fellow classmates, I began to wonder what happened to my favorite teachers. I looked up my old highschool and found that two of my favorite teachers were still teaching. One of them was my English Teacher, Ms. Hurley. She recently published a coming of age book, "When I was Ten". I remembered her as comical and witty. As a daily excercise, she would have logic problems for us to solve. To this day, I still love solving logic problems. She made writing/reading a lot of fun. I can't wait to read her book.

I also emailed my Spanish teacher, Mrs. J.R., but haven't heard back from her. She was the reason I kept taking Spanish year after year. One year as a class assignment, we wrote a play - a shortened vesion of the "Wizard of Oz" in Spanish and acted in it. She was very athletic and ran in many triathlons and marathons.

I couldn't find my AP calculus & physics teacher, Mr. Withers, and wondered if the rumours I heard that he had past away were real. It saddened me a little as I perused the Merced Sun-Star looking for his obituary. Wow, did he make Physics fun! and those one handed push-ups.. amazing!

Went back several years earlier and looked up another teacher - Mr. Sullivan. He was my 5th and 6th grade teacher. This guy was just amazing. He looked a lot like Bruce Willis and was just as funny. He had these classroom antics: If you yawned with our mouths open, you would have to run a lap. We used fake currency in the classroom and if you were caught littering, you had to pay a fine. We even had checkbooks and were taught to balance it. He made us write a letter to ourselves and he would mail it to us years later. Wow, did I have horrible grammer!

These were the teachers who inspired me and made learning fun. I miss my youth...