11.02.07
Your most important role model
Our Dearest Tutors…
We cannot express our gratitude to each and every single one of you for the endless hours that you put into these children. Their lives are being changed daily because you are taking an interest in who they are, as a student and as a person. Your role in their lives is irreplaceable and the children are benefiting from you.
Because you play such a vital role in the lives of these kids, we are interested to hear about who has played a vital role in your life! Who has been a role model to you, academically, spiritually, socially and otherwise? Who has been the person that showed they cared about you and your well-being the way you so selflessly do to the children of Our Neighborhood Homework House?
As always, we are here to support you in anyway you need. Please do not hesitate to come to us with suggestions, questions or concerns. We appreciate all you do for us, and for Azusa’s most precious resource!
With love,
Your Program Directors: Shana, Jordan, and Adrian
jreyesapu said,
November 14, 2007 at 9:27 pm
So, role models…I would have to say my closest role model would have to be my sister. Maria as a role model mostly because she always kept me in line, that unfriendly but much needed person who told you what to do and what not to do. There have been a few teachers who actually have had a big impact on me as well. One is Mr. Trey Fisk, he was my Algebra 1, Physical Science, and Physics teacher in High School. He always made it clear that he loved and cared for each and everyone of his students. Always offered his help and was a great teacher and a great encouraging coach to have for track. What made him understand us as students, is not that he was our teacher, but that he knew what it would be like to struggle in class. So it was not just because he had to be nice, but it had that extra and needed personal touch to the situation.
I have many more rolemodels, but I feel like I’d write a novel or two about them, and anyways, my fingers and wrists are hurting from typing this out…
See you all (especially Mia and Oscar) on Wednesday at 6th street (right??)
Jonathan E. Reyes
Shana Urive said,
November 16, 2007 at 4:15 am
I take a little bit from everyone. Everyone has something in them that I admire and that challenges me, but there are those few role models that take challenging you to the next level- like kicking you when you are out of line, telling Mom on you, yelling at you- With love, my three older sisters did all of those things. But if your family doesn’t provide any positive role models, then participation in community organizations (ie. Homework House, church, sports clubs, extracurricular activities) and having inspiring teachers becomes integral. For me, it was my high school art teacher, Mrs. Bradway, who was as strange as they come- but always pushed me to think outside the box. Also my youth pastor that closely resembled Mr. Clean who was a 40-year-old that had the energy of a 20-year-old. He constantly challenged me on how to follow Christ.
Anyways, all of you tutors will be among those lists when our students grow up and look back on those that made a difference in their lives.
~Your Program Director………SHANA!