The Story of Mrs. Mattingly and I

I have thought a lot about my language arts teacher today and how I do not want to lose her. My mom has a teacher she used to have that has a modeo that says once a student always a student and that is true for the two of us because we are friends!!!! I will still be reading a lot next year because she encouraged me to and because I learned a life lesson that is what reading can do for your life and I hope I can teach my friend Jenna that lesson!! I will remember my teacher forever and I hope she knows that I will miss her very much!!!!!!! She has changed my life because I have my love for reading back and I have realized that it would be stupid of me to feel like I am not a good reader or writer ever again. I have a special place in my heart for her and even though I may not be living In Kentucky when I grow up I will still remember her! I will remember her until I die and when I come home to see my parents I may be able to see her!!!!!! I love her so much and she loves me to. We are so close that I am praying to see what the best thing is for me to do for my career and where he wants me to live. I have a feeling that he is telling me to live in Kentucky near my parents and to work at the middle school and live in New York in the summer times to work with Jenna!!!!! I may go live in New York while i a getting my teacher degree so that I can help Jenna get the Bakery Shop started. That s just in case Mrs. Mattingly is still working at the middle school when I get out of college. I am going to college for a total of 8 years, but I am getting my teacher degree first and then I am getting a music degree online instead with my cousin. So that means that in eleven years which that is including 8th grade I would be trying to get a job at the middle school. I will see what the lord wants me to do, but I do feel that he is telling me to do that. I hope I can do that without my friend Jenna getting mad. I want to teach Language arts because Mrs. Mattingly has taught me a lot of things emotionally that I want to teach other people especially the lesson I have learned about what reading can do for your life. Also I want to teach language arts so that I can encourage people to love to read just like Mrs. Mattingly has done for me. At the beginning of the school year we barely knew each other and through-out the year we became best friends!!!!!!!!!!!! She helped me to have a wonderful year and it came true!!! I had a wonderful year and I will miss her so much next year!!!! I already miss year and the year has been over for a day. Next year will not be the same without her and I am praying that the lord will help me to make our relationship grow! He did that with my friend Kahlan and that means he will probably do that with Mrs. Mattingly and I. I will defently do my part in that because it is very easy to do my part when it is compared my relationship with my father! I have not had a teacher as a friend since first grade. I would not have Mrs. Mattingly in my life if my family and I did not move to Lubbock and then to Kentucky. There are pros and cons to moving all over this country and that is a pro!!!!! A con is that i lost my cousin that i grew up with, but he is not dead, I just can't see him as often anymore. The end of year is finally over. The last day was yesterday and i am going to be sad for at least a couple weeks, but in the midst of that, I get to see my family in the north-east!!!!!! Mrs. Mattingly has changed a lot in me and I love that about her!!!!! She is the best teacher i have had in a long time!!!!!! I have not been this sad for the year to be over since second grade. I was very sad then because I was moving that summer!!!!!! I'm just glad I am not moving this summer and when we do move we will still be in Meade County!!!!!! Thank God!!!!!! Mrs. Mattingly is my best friend and I hope our relationship will grow!!!! I defiantly think it will even though I am not her student anymore!!!!!! I miss her so much already and it has only been a day!!! I will miss her all summer and I can't wait to see her again at the beginning of next year!!!! All the trips I am going on this summer will make the summer fly by because of the saying time flies when you’re having fun!!!!!! That is the story of Mrs. Mattingly and me. Written by her former student, Hannah DeForrest