Unit One Response to Allison Stearman's Blog.

This blog entry accurately describes what is happening in todays school systems. The worst part about it is that the students are the ones who suffer the most. With downsizing and budget cuts, the students of today get even less face time with their students and have less supplies to work with. I could not imagine the stress of losing a job I spent thousands of dollars on doubled by the fact of getting laid off even though my supervisor believed I was doing a good job.

The story was written very well and I can feel what this teacher must be going through.

http://astearman.blogspot.com/

Fictive Memoir

My grandmother was someone I admired as a child. She had been a single, widowed mom of three and worked several jobs at a time to put all three of them through college. Her strength was something I aspired to have and her wisdom helped me through tough times in my life. When my parents divorced, she was there to comfort me and ensure me that is was not my fault. When I graduated with honors, she was there and cheered louder than anyone.

Three years ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer and started the agonizing treatment. While she was in the hospital, I thought it was my time to be strong for tis brave women who had achieved so much in her life even when faced with huge obstacles. My grandmother took me by surprise when I came to visit her in the hospital and was just as full of life as before her illness. She had the strength to see the positives in the stiuation no matter how grim it became. She took the time to tell her family how much she loved each and every one of us. She advised my mother and sisters to ensure they were regular checked for breast cancer.

The cancer spread and the doctors decided that my that it would be best for my sweet grandmother to speed the last months comfortable at home with her family and friends. I spent as much time with my grandmother as possible in those last few months. She taught me he home recipes and shared her old childhood photographs. She read to me the old love letter between he husband and her before he was killed by enemy fire in Vietnam. She explained how devastated she had been put pulled herself together for her children. She worked several jobs in order to give them the life she felt they deserved and told me she never regretted one second of her life.

Now that my grandmother has passed away, I miss her and know that I was lucky to have know such a amazing women. Her fight with cancer inspired me to aid in the research for finding a breast cancer cure and I participate in the breast cancer charity walks because they make me feel closer to my loving and remarkable grandmother.

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=11330283