Mr Deering my 10th grade Journalism teacher approached me and said that I had a gift for writing; he wanted to take me under his wing and develop this gift. Excited I went home and told this to my parents who denied the request. The next day I went back to school and told my Journalism teacher no deal; his last words to me were, "lost another one." Those words stuck with me from that day forth. Other teachers and students continued to like the stories that I wrote which encouraged me and ten years later I picked up from where I left off. In 2008 my resume looks l more...
