(From my journal for my writer’s craft class)
I was thinking today about the end of this school year. I’m excited about this summer because for the first time in my life I’m extremely eager, ambitious, single, spiritually liberated, and working full-time! It’s certainly a time in my life to celebrate!
Although I am sad about the end of our class because as you must be able to see, I have gained so much from your teaching. This class has helped me grow and grow and grow more than any other class I have taken before. In the future I will continue to look for writing workshops like ours because I think they are the best for me and my education. Small workshops are best I think because they are small enough for the teacher to devote more attention to each participant of the workshop. I don’t think I will get that devotion in a university course.
It’s true I’m upset about the end of our class, but I’m happy at the same time because it’s been so wonderful. I hope I will never forget all I’ve learned in this class. Thanks to my journal and my other writings, I probably won’t though. Sometimes I even wished I had brought a miniature tape recorder in to class each day so I could hear your words again and again afterwards. Whenever I’d have a problem I would be able to pull out a tape and listen to wonderful stories and ideas which would give me both hope and inspiration. Oh well, that would just be more material things holding me down. I don’t need tapes to remember you anyway though, I will always be able to see you in my actions and my thoughts because of how you influenced and inspired me in the way you did. Thanks to you, I learned how to set myself free. For that I’m extremely appreciative.
