<a title="flowers for graduation by karolinka.sofia, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/7239364846/"><img class="alignleft" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/7239364846_10770949bc.jpg" alt="flowers for graduation" width="375" height="500" /></a>I was given these flowers at graduation by the mom of one of my students. Her daughter was an incredible student. The kind of student you wish all of your students were. I taught this young woman for one year in 10th grade. I met her mother at parent teacher conferences in October of my first year teaching at ACS and it turned out that this mother was also participating in Balkan dance at school.

Both mother and daughter always have a smile and a hello for me.