I'm still not sure if I should have shared as much as I have on this blog here with you about my personal life, but it's out there and you're starting to sense that my home life has not always been the most stable. This week has continued to be difficult for various reasons, so I haven't had the time to check up on our project here. After a long night with my brother last night, I woke up and decided I better check up on you here, feeling a little anxiety about what I might find.
There are one or two entries that I'd still like to see adjusted for appropriateness or added detail, but overall, I am so impressed with the way you are all expressing yourselves here. Some of you are confronting very difficult experiences and it is giving your writing a brutal honesty that is compelling and comforting to your readers, who also suffer. Others of you are sharing delightful details about your life and/or identity that also bring out your writing voices and personalities strongly.
I can't tell you how grateful I am for all of you this year. It often occurs to me that I don't tell you that enough... and then I forget to. The truth is, I also think you still wouldn't even begin to understand if I remembered to tell you every day. I have always loved my students since I began teaching five years ago, but I feel especially close to you this year. I keep shuddering every time I think about having to say goodbye to you at the end of the year, though I know some of you will feel a lot of relief. For now, please know how much I appreciate, enjoy, and admire you for everything I see you confronting in your actions around school or in the stories you write down. I wish I had time to write a note to each one of you, but for now, I want to send this out before I forget again!
Thank you so much, you guys,
Ms. Gharda
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