I appreciate every teacher I've had in my life.
Teacher Norma in Pre-K, I still love you and Chicken Little is still my favorite book.
1st grade: Sister Therese, thanks for your gentle manner and for reading to our class everyday.
2nd grade: Mrs. Pablico, you made math fun.
3rd Grade: Mrs. Lopez, even my grandma still remembers and loves you...thanks for your extra push and attention.
4th Grade: Mr. Edualino, Thanks for the endless weeks of science experiments I learned so much from. Thanks for letting us (the students) do them and figure them out on our own.
5th grade: Sister Michelle, as a fourth grader, I feared going to your class but once I arrived, I didn't regret it. Thanks for being maticulous and still manage to have wholesome fun.
6th Grade: Ms. Scott and Principal Sister Teresa Ann: you two embedded a copperative learning lifestyle in me.
JUNIOR HIGH: when the Sh#$^# hit the fan. School change, it was a life change for me. From being misplaced in classes, the solitude in a practice room and multitude in numbers...I thank my counselor Mrs. Calienes for helping me figure it all out...i had an indulgence in music and math, Thanks Mr. Nichols for getting me out of that other math class. Mr. Waldman (algebra and geometry) thanks for getting me through it and thanks for caring enough to help when i had quit on myself turning my big fat F into an "A." I'll never ever ever ever forget YOU. The Science teacher with the red high-top Reeboks in skirts, you were quirky and still managed to keep all the eastLos kids entrigued. Ms. Hartman, thanks for going through the trouble to take us swimming for PE at the neighboring high school. Mr. Megna, I went to Salem, MA and I thought of you...thanks for introducing me to THE CRUCIBLE and because of you I had the prior knowledge I needed when I toured the Salem Witch Museum. Thanks Mrs. Peralta for letting me TALK to my peers about gangs when I should have been reading during homeroom, they decided gangs weren't for them. Mr Krugel, thanks for always being EXTREME. Mr. Delaney, thanks for the Air Supply memories. Mr. Gurwell, thanks for the Lunchtime Concerts idea...all schools should implement that idea. Also, thanks for helping me understand whole notes and quarter notes matter...and thanks for running out of alto saxes...i love the TENOR sax!
High School: Mr. Arellano, Mr. Barrientos, and Mr. Tavarez, thanks for the three years of support when I knew so very little about music, all i knew was I liked it. thanks jose for not signing my DROP Slip in jazz band on day 2, the room full of boys intimidated me but your belief in me (the only girl) gave me the courage to give it a try. Mr. Fong, thanks for instilling in me "it's not where you start, it's where you end up" philoshopy and for your daily debates and lessons learned in them. thanks for nourishing a foundation to take a stance in my own opinion and beliefs, giving me the guts to stand alone on a heated side of a debate that to this day I belief my stance was solid because of your seed. Ms. to be continued
