There was not a dry eye among the private sector. Nine years later, I read the same story at her retirement dinner after explaining how I was nurtured by this wonderful educator. There was not a dry eye in the place. When teaching second grade, I was waiting with my students for their bus to arrive. My greatest accomplishment is knowing that it hasn t happened yet.
Every day is a great accomplishment.
For the past several years, each spring, I volunteered on the vendor committee for Springfest in Charlotte. I was responsible for mapping specific areas where vendors could set up their booths. My responsibility was also to taste and evaluate the food at each vendor s station. Being from Winston-Salem, I thoroughly enjoyed the fact that I could walk the city streets in Charlotte incognito and freely accomplish my task without interruption from parents and students. No one knew me.