Okay so this one seems simple enough, and really it was, but it also ended up being a little harder than I first thought. To be honest, I forgot about doing it until Friday, when I was sitting in my World Religions class, and so I told myself, “Alright, easy enough. I’ll just tell my World Religion teacher thanks for a being a good teacher.”
But then as I thought more, I thought it’d probably be better to thank him specifically for that day, and in order to do that, I had to listen carefully and really get everything out of the lesson. Ha and ya know I got SO much more out of that class than I ever have. I go to class and take notes, but it’s mostly just copying down whatever he’s writing on the board and spending the rest of the class fighting sleep. So on Friday I switched things up and I took more time to listen to the comments being made and the discussion going on in class. And I’ve never thought about this before, but I think that is totally how smart people become smart…they just learn whatever they can wherever they go and pick up on a TON more than just going through every event so they can “check off” each part of the day. Interesting realization :)
And then after class, my teacher was talking with another student, so I ended up waiting 5 minutes or so to say something, but I’m glad I did. I could tell he was expecting me to ask him about the homework or the papers we had just worked on this week, but I just said, “Hey thanks. I got a lot out of the lesson today and I really like everything you do as a teacher.” He looked kind of surprised, but he also just smiled and said basically that he really appreciated that.
So moral of this story…really not a big deal to take an extra minute to tell someone thanks, and it’s totally worth it. I bet you won’t regret it ;) Happy Thanksgiving!
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