Day 9: List 3 people who have influenced you, and how.
1) Dana Carmichael(-Tanaka), my 7th
grade Social Studies teacher and non-church Christian mentor. She helped me realize that God was
everywhere. I guess I was more of a
church-goer until I met her, then after my oldest daughter was born, became a
true Christian.
2) Neil Anderson, my 9th grade
Social Studies teacher. No one in
the education industry is as open, honest and caring as this man. We were put to the test over two HUGE issues
during my high school career. Not only
was (is) he a fantastic teacher, he is a phenomenal mentor. Anyone who has the privilege of learning in
one of his classes is a lucky human. I
am extra lucky, because he was able to help me through two tough times, one of
them being the suicide of a boy I had a crush on, who also happened to be his
nephew, within the first month of my high school days.
3) President Bill Clinton. People will reprimand him for being
unfaithful and for lying. What they
should also take away is “be who you are, no matter what”. He is and was who he is. No amount of primping and poking and
preparing helped him survive his tobackles.
He was vetted and approved by the
majority of Democrats, even with his adulterous politics in Arkansas. He openly cheated on his wife there, why
would he stop in the White House? She
had plans of her own; it just took several years for the rest of the Country to
figure that out.
