Day 36 of 1000
I do not know whether Lorena just gets odd teachers, she brings out the strangeness in them, or just notices stuff that other people do not notice. She studies Financial Accounting this summer from a very highly rated professor. Lorena has attended class for a little over a month now. That I know so much about the guy and his mother boggles my mind. I know that he adores his 86 year old mother. I know that she loves Sunset Blush wine that she buys once per week by the case from Walmart, because they have the best prices. I know that when one of the guys who lived in the nursing home with her, left all his Sunset Blush wine to her when he died because he knew she liked it so much. I know the professor is a hardcore hockey fan who loves beer and hotdogs, but cannot drink as much beer or eat as many hotdogs because they exacerbate his gout.
All of that is really fun, but what is even cooler about this guy is that he has super high ratings from his students even though he piles on the homework and gives them hard tests. It is obvious that he loves his job, loves to be with the students, and takes his charge to teach them accounting very seriously. He takes time with students who are not getting the material, learns all their names within the first couple days of class, and does everything possible to make the class interesting and fun. I surely hope Lorena can get him Managerial Accounting next semester.
Lorena is a good student. She has studied at the community college just about everwhere we have lived–Florida, Oregon, and North Carolina. She made her way through all the English as a Second Language classes to pass College Composition and all the way from Algebra through her first semester of Calculus (all she needs for a Business Administration degree). She has to take some history, literature, and other general education credits in addition to some more business classes to get her Transfer Associate Degree so she can continue on to her Bachelors (and maybe Masters degree).