I laugh with the Lord. His humor in my life has been funny and I have learned to see it instead of getting frustrated, I laugh. My education career started like most other children, in Kindergarten. I don't remember that year though. I do, very vividly remember the next few years of my education. 1st through 3rd grade was in a private school paid for by my great grandmother and grandmother. All 3 grades were in the same classroom and it was wonderful. I had 2 teachers, Mrs Landrum was tall, and soft spoken. However my other teacher stood out. Her name is Mrs. Hagan. Now, she was a driven teacher, and made sure we were challenged in every area. However, there was one trait that everyone noticed. She has crutches. Not the kind from a hospital; the sturdy kind for everyday use. She was born with a condition called Spina Bifida. So, she had to use the crutches to get around. I still remember a lot from their classroom. We wrote a letter to the white house, we had a T board to review the previous days information, and there was another sister set in class with me and Samantha. I also remember telling Mrs. Hagan that thee and the were prounced differently because they were spelled differently. The look she gave me was both amused, and one of unbelief. I don't know what went through her mind, however the is no denying that I was right. She has since taught elementary children for years and now is at KSU assisting student t with skills to be successful in class and beyond the classroom.
I have recently started going to college. No, I am not going back, I am starting from them beginning. This semester I am taking college success along with reading. I was very nervous about going into a classroom where I would be the oldest, and one of the only ones with her own family. When I entered the classroom I noticed my professor was as tall as I am, and had an unusual physical trait about her. She explained that she has Tar Syndrome (Thrombocytopenia) and its where her radius bone is completely absent. Now she is a driven teacher, has taught her whole life, ironically to elementary children for years, and now as a professor in a college...
I find Gods humor in the fact that I have started both my primary and secondary education off with the same uniqueness. Both are women of the Lord, both have a unique physical trait that they had yet to let it set them back, and they had both become teachers. And I have had the pleasure of being instructed under both. Thats not a coincidence, and I don't believe in that. How in the world did 2 elementary teachers decide to switch things up and go into the college arena? I believe that both ladies have done way more than teach about reading, writing and arithmetic. They have taught that no one can hold you back, and there is not a goal you cannot reach. I want to thank both ladies for being such an instrument for God, and teaching everyone that you come into contact with that there is nothing you cannot reach for and get. Unless its a cartwheel, I think that they would both agree on that.
