“I immediately called my parents to celebrate. I was crying happy tears the whole time."
“Your school is absolutely massive with just ten minutes to get everywhere… and stairs!"
“I would just come home and flop onto my bed.”
"Is it okay if I paint while I talk?”
“It was hot but the students were like we have to finish this trail."
"Sometimes it’s okay to take a risk and go outside your comfort zone.”
“I like when people move when I come down the hallways,” he told me. “It is very efficient and convenient for me.”
“I would say ‘perfect our skills,’” she said, “but we aren’t allowed to say that in the theater because our work is never done!”
“Here's an idea (and that’s fine), but here’s why it really matters.”
She now has a group of thirty girls that run up to her in the hallway and say, “Hey, Coach Parker.” It makes her day.
“A lot of sign language and a few Spanish words seem to do the trick.”