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Dear Mr. Sheehy,

Hi! I certainly had an interesting year with you! It was fun even though I never quiet handed anything in except that one paper and I was really very proud of myself. Before I go on I would like to warn you that this may be a sappy letter. I just lost a loved one, my cousin, and she was pregnant and she was driving through an unmarked intersection and another car t-boned her and killed her… so it’s been an interesting eighteen hours so far. Anyway, on a lighter note, I really did have fun with you this year! I may have been a nuisance, but you know, it’s the people that you meet that teach you something.

I really did learn something in your class, besides all those silly vocabulary words, I learned that it doesn’t matter who you are or who you want to be, you can just be yourself, who ever that may be, in this department. No one laughs at anyone, unless you told a super funny joke, and you did want them to laugh. No matter what kind of problem you have or anything at all it all gets shared and it all gets fixed, or at least they make you feel better for the moment. I’ve learned to open up to a lot more people and to accept everyone because this could be their bad day or week or month maybe even year.

How have I changed? This question is a very good one! So here to tell you more is Emily about how I’ve changed. “Koleen has seriously changed so much within this past year. You might’ve seen her walk in on the first day of class, laughing about one thing or another, and thought ‘Oh great. Another one of those students.’ But now, you look at her and say ‘That’s one of my students.’ And you can tell how much she has gained from this class, much like the rest of us. Believe it or not, but no matter how wild this bunch seems, we loved this class and so did she.” Thanks Emily!

The influence in my life has probably been my sister and my family to just get my stuff done so that I can graduate and just get out of school. I don’t know if you have noticed or not but I rarely do my homework and that is all going to change. I just want to get out of school and start maybe a fabulous life. That would be so cool! My family knows that I have a problem doing school related stuff. It really all started in the second grade, I had all the worksheets that we did back in Arlington, South Dakota. So I figured that I just didn’t need to do it. So I really made it hard on myself that I started that trend so early, and knowing that I still follow it just kind of bugs me. I don’t feel like I accomplish anything in which I don’t, but it’s still all the same.

I will remember you eating all those oranges in front of us, but then I got smart at the end and brought my own apple. Yummy! Oh and all the silly little videos that you showed to us. I think if you did more videos like the ones you showed, your kids will learn more. How can I forget all the silly things like the www.icanhascheezburger.com?

Oh yeah! That’s right I went there… ha! That was probably the best site that you showed us the entire year! The pictures that students could send you and your family photos I will miss! I love pictures of everything; I love it so much that at one point in time I considered pursuing a career in photography. That’s kind of out of the picture now.

I know this, you know this and the bum on the street knows this, the most challenging part of my year was the vocabulary, and just doing it and handing it in. That reverts back to second grade also. Some other things that were challenging for me was the understanding some of the story’s and why they happened and why the author decided to write about that.

I learned that if I’m stressed out I tend to get more done, but afterwards I have a relapse of laziness and I just don’t want to do it because I feel like I have burnt myself out. Plus when I get stressed, no one wants to be around me because I start yelling and absolutely going nuts! This year has been hard and now the end of the year is even harder because of my cousin.

My story of the year would be how Mr. Sheehy would stand on tops of desks and ask if it would be weird if he taught from up there. The orange smell would linger and make my mouth water when he had those and the story of the squirl on www.icanhascheezburger.com and electricity was coming from his little finger tips and we put captions on it that said, “I told you not to touch my nuts!” That was probably the best!

It truly has been an amazing year with amazing people that have amazing talent. Whether it’s Jasmine with her writing or Emily Weber playing Kim in Miss Saigon, or just being yourself when you are around others. That will probably get you farther in life than just a great job. So be yourself no matter what, and if someone tells you that you are stupid for showing emotion, let me know, I’ll go and beat some sense into them… some sense of pain… then we’ll see who shows emotion.