Thank You, Casady

Dear Casady,

It was so great to meet you all. What a way to end the school week just before the big storm. The weather was awesome, you all were awesome, and btw, your school is really, really awesome, too.

Who knows the answer?

But I’m not writing to tell you something you already know. I wanted to tell you I really wish I could spend another day playing four-square and hanging out in your classes. I also had a huge hankering to pick up a violin and see if I play a little bit better than Paris Pan does.

Okay, I’ll get more serious for a second. I also wanted to share a few pictures of the event AND just a handful of some of the great letters I got from you (SCROLL DOWN). I hope none of you were kidding about wanting to write because I fully expect a lot of published books coming out of this group!  Remember that statistic I told you. If you don’t think you’ll want to do it now, there’s a REALLY great chance that when you get old like me, you will! (I just figured out what the exact percentage is. 81%!!! of Americans believe they’d like to write a book one day.)

I hope you all start TODAY. Get that head start, or at least keep it in the back of your mind as a possibility. There’s nothing like being able to tell a great story and having other people enjoy them! Also, there’s that small chance you could buy your own island, too.

A special thanks to Carl Albert, Allison Tien, Agnish Chakraburrty, and Aubrey Hermen who took me around campus. Seriously, I would have gotten lost in about 30 seconds and you would have had to fish me out of the lake if you hadn’t been there to watch out for me. I also enjoyed listening to all the scandalous stories you told me about your teachers. (KIDDING!)

Finally, another big thanks to Mrs. Freeland, Mrs. Odom, Mrs. Crossno, Mrs. Larsen, and Mrs. Oswalt.  You all made me feel so welcome! And I’ll never forget the diagramming refresher and the oral language lesson. Very surreal to be in school again. I actually missed being in middle school again. Is that weird or what?!

Now here come the pictures and the letters. Hope to see you again one day, everybody! Thanks again!

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