Thesis & One Paragraph From my Paper

Mrs. Quam had high expectations, pep talks that taught me a lot, and was personable to any student that looked past her reputation has a tough teacher. 

I got a lot of pep talks that year from her, and I found that all of them are very true. I felt like she was my counselor at school, and I could talk to her about anything. In example, during my freshmen year I started talking to a guy on the football team, who at the time was MVP, and who drove the nicest truck in school. All the girls wanted him, but I got lucky and had a small fling with him. I talked to Mrs. Quam about it a lot, and she always told me the same thing. “He might like you, but he will never commit to you. It’ll drag on for years you guys, but he’ll never commit, he is a 17 year old boy.” I wish I had listened on that one, because to this day that boy has never committed to me, but has always came running back to me when a relationship fails. The last time I talked to her, I told her that he came back yet again, and that I got rid of him. She laughed, and said that I should of done that back in freshmen year! We got laughs out of it, and we were both glad we didn’t have to hear about him ever again. But boys aren’t the only thing we’d talk about.

I had learned that we had more in common than I thought.