7.31.2009

teaching america

Oh dear readers,

It has been so long since I've found you here. For those concerned, I am well and life has been, at least, amazing. If this screen has been empty it is only because life outside this world has been so full. I am still writing. I have always been still writing, and I hope to have something good enough to share.

I am sitting in Los Angeles, an hour before my last summer school class. This is the first class I've taught, and today is the last day I will see them. They are so brilliant, and while I sincerely hope that I have taught them something, I have no doubts that the mark they have left on me is bigger than any I have left on them. They will have dozens of other teachers in their lives, but they will always be my first class. They are the first students that fell asleep while I was talking, the first students that looked at me confused because they were awake. They are the first students that thought I was funny (sometimes), and the first students to actually understand things that were being taught.

I will miss them.