thank you mr christian....
Thank you Mr. Christian Recollection: when I was in junior high school I had a teacher named Dennis Christian He was one of the most important people ever in my life He was the first teacher to recognize I had some sort of creative spark I was a naturally good athlete but had never slowed down enough to write anything I felt good about He had us little seventh grader's do a writing exercise in a very unique and cool way: he walked into the classroom – we knew it was time for English – he walked in eating a banana and just looking at us with a amused look on his face The whole classroom was going "Mr. Christian are you going to say anything?" "Mr. Christian what are we supposed to do?? " He ate the banana sat on his desk and just looked at us I raised my hand and asked ... Mr. Christian are we supposed to write something about you eating a banana? He kind of smirked and indicated an expression of "that's not a bad id...