Happy Moment

At the beginning of the school year I was substitute teaching. One of the high school classes was an independent studies class for a handful of students. Since I was not instructing students honestly I was a little bored so I proceed to go around and find out what everyone was working on and ask them about their future plans, as a couple of them were seniors. One student told me she just wanted to move to the town where her boy friend lived and "get out of here". But as I showed more interest by asking more questions about what she would like to do or any thoughts of job, etc. she began to share more details about her hopes.

I became very interested in finding out if she was asking for or asking for help with her hopes for the future. She was not. I went home that day and could not get this student out of my head, so I started researching programs near where her boyfriend was living. I thought here is an eighteen year old girl who is going to go where the boyfriend is but why couldn't she look into the business programs that she was interested in near him.
I looked up two school near in the areas she mentioned she was interested in and put together a packet of information for both. The next time I saw her I gave them to her and said here is some information I thought you might be interested in. If you are interested and would like some help finding out more let me know and I will help. I left it at that with not much more than  a suprised response from the student.

About a month later she saw me in the hall and told me that she had pursued the information I had given her and was enrolled at one of the colleges. Then yesterday I saw her again. With a big smile on her face she told me that today was her last day, she had completed all she needed to graduate, as she was a return senior. Then she told me that she had found an apartment near her college, was enrolled and ready to start her business program!

What a happy moment!