[I'm working in July as a substitute assistant teacher in a pre-school where my mother does physical therapy. Today was my first day. With about an hour left to the day, the music teacher came.]
Teacher: This is [my mom's name]'s daughter.
Music Teacher: Oh...you're the writer?
Me: Heh, yeah.
Music Teacher: Yeah, I had a whole conversation with your mom after graduation.* You know, soon after that I got an email from the father of one of the kids who thought I did such a good job with the graduation, and I saw that on the bottom of the email there was a link to a website. I clicked on it and saw that this boy's father is an author! A really big one.
Me: Oh, cool.
Music Teacher: Yeah, I thought of you. I don't know if you've heard of him or not...Gordon Korman?
Me: [thinking: did I hear that correctly?] Gordon Korman?! I used to read his books! Oh my gosh! That's so cool!
Music Teacher: Yeah! So I wrote him back and we're going out for coffee so I can pick his brain because I'm thinking about writing kids' books also. I'll mention it to your mom.
Me: ::starry-eyed:: Reeeaaally???
Gordon Korman...Jerry Spinelli...Louis Sachar...ah, childhood.
But how cool is that?!
*I went to the pre-school graduation a few weeks ago.
3 comments:
That's really cool! :D
That is awesome. Really, really awesome.
And I didn't know that your mom is a physical therapist. That's cool.
Enjoy your substitute teaching!!
Gordon Korman is totally cool. And The Twinkie Squad, which is one of his best books, inspired the names of both of my blogs. :-)
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