Many student teachers dream of being hired right out of college, but for many that dream does not become a reality and they spend all summer worrying about what they will be doing when August rolls around. For some reason, the Lord saw fit that I need not spend my summer worrying about a job and instead he handed it to me on a silver platter. I filled out countless job applications in hopes that someone would see me as a diamond in the rough and hire me so that I could put to good use all of the training that I have received while in school. In what was supposed to be a casual meeting with the new principal of my old high school, I was hired on the spot to become a teacher at West Marion High School. This woman had never met me before and knew nothing about me, yet she saw the hard work and passion I put into lessons and schoolwork and felt like she just had to have me as a part of her staff. I have no doubt in my mind that God wanted me to be a teacher at West Marion, no matter how much I wanted to teach elsewhere.
Many friends of mine always said how much they wanted to leave West Marion and the Columbia area, but to me there is no other place that I'd rather call home. It feels so good to go back to the school that put so much hard work and love into me and to be able to do the same thing to the kids that are there now.
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