Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Day 7: "Because it's Wednesday"

To be politically incorrect; my math teacher is 'sick.' (mom- 'sick' is good... see also: groovy, far out, boss)

Mrs. Keller has taught me a lot during Pre-Calculus. And i'm not just talking about the 12 basic functions or the law of cosines... She gives pretty good advice, as a mom's view and as a rational person's view (not that they would be too much different.... ;] ) Well that's just a little background on her.

One day there was a huge vase filled with the most beautiful yellow flowers sitting on her desk. We all just teased her and asked who the secret admirer was. Duh it was Mr. Keller but then we all freaked out figuring we missed the memo it was her birthday or something. So we asked if it was her birthday....

"No sillies, today is Wednesday!"

Not really making sense what Wednesday has anything to do with it being her birthday, it wasn't until I went to look at the flowers closer that I realized what she was talking about. The little card sticking out of the flowers said, "Because it's Wednesday."

Well as pretty as the flowers were, it's refreshing to see how people keep each other happy with cute little ways to show the people in their life that they care. So maybe you don't have the opportunity to build houses in 3rd world countries or read to underprivileged children every day after school, but there is always opportunity to show someone how much you care about them.

So smile to someone you've never met, send your girlfriend flowers (hint hint, Julian), buy from a kid's lemonade stand.... anyone can do it.

To Harker Kids: NHS is selling Teacher Appreciation grams during the week as a follow-up to Tuesday's assembly. I believe you can purchase them in the edge during both lunches. Not only will the notes brighten your teachers/advisors/administrators' days.... the money also goes towards NHS' involvement and attemps to improve local public schools!
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5 comments:

A said...

I had Ms. Keller last year, and I loved when Mr. Keller would come and visit just to say 'Hi' or give her a flower.

They're so cute :) <3

March 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Anonymous said...

This is a comment from your earlier submission: It seems to me that this Danielle person is caught up in the frenzy of doing nice things. How strange...how nice. She happens to be one of my FAVORITE nieces (a "nice-niece" if you will). Anyway, it usually doesn't cost anything in order to be nice. One of my favorites (when walking down the sidewalk with another person approaching) is to say "Good Morning!" That greeting, combined with a real smile (not the obligatory kind) startles the "average" person, brings sunshine to lonely, elderly ladies and helps a younger person to learn to do the same thing: Smile and say Hi. I must admit that I'm a stranger to blogging...so let me know my "score". How'd I do? From your Unc in Hamburg, NY.

March 19, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Miss Red said...

hey danielle,

that is absolutely adorable about mr and mrs keller -- they are such a cute couple!

and i thought you might appreciate this:
http://stellarserena.blogspot.com/2009/03/last-post-of-day.html

March 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Anonymous said...

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!
=D
this made me smile.
yellow flowers
sigh.

March 21, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Anonymous said...

Hi Danielle, I'm a neighbor. Do you go to school at Harker? A friend of mine is a teacher and is considering working there, so I'm starting to learn more about the school. Sounds like they have a good sports team and smart students! :-)
-- Cici.

March 24, 2009 at 10:25 AM

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