ASK ME ANYTHING - Day Seventeen
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aerysun5 wants to know who was my most influential teacher and why?
Honestly, that would have to be a three-way tie between Ms. Lee, Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Andresen.
Ms. Lee was my first grade art teacher and Mr. Schwartz was my art teacher all the way through four years of high school. They both saw the creativity inside me and encouraged me and gave me the confidence to believe that I could go into art as a profession. And here I am, working as a graphic designer for the past 20 years!
Ms. Andresen was my sixth and seventh grade English teacher. She's the one that saw in me my gift for storytelling. I'd always loved writing short little things in grade school but I really flourished under her guidance. And now I'm writing professionally! She's also the one who got me started with my love of law enforcement. Her daughter was an FBI agent. I became Ms. Andresen's student assistant and would stay after school to help out with things and she'd tell me stories about cases her daughter had worked on. I was fascinated! And here I am now taking one citizen police and fire academy class after another AND writing about men in uniform. :-)
aerysun5 wants to know who was my most influential teacher and why?Honestly, that would have to be a three-way tie between Ms. Lee, Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Andresen.
Ms. Lee was my first grade art teacher and Mr. Schwartz was my art teacher all the way through four years of high school. They both saw the creativity inside me and encouraged me and gave me the confidence to believe that I could go into art as a profession. And here I am, working as a graphic designer for the past 20 years!
Ms. Andresen was my sixth and seventh grade English teacher. She's the one that saw in me my gift for storytelling. I'd always loved writing short little things in grade school but I really flourished under her guidance. And now I'm writing professionally! She's also the one who got me started with my love of law enforcement. Her daughter was an FBI agent. I became Ms. Andresen's student assistant and would stay after school to help out with things and she'd tell me stories about cases her daughter had worked on. I was fascinated! And here I am now taking one citizen police and fire academy class after another AND writing about men in uniform. :-)
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Date: 2014-12-19 08:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-23 01:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-12-30 07:23 am (UTC)This is a great answer. It's so interesting to see what kind of influence the right teacher can have. I don't think any of my teachers had the kind of influence on my development that yours did. I'm impressed and more than a little jealous. You were so lucky.
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Date: 2014-12-31 01:47 am (UTC)