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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] My best Christmas present.
From: "Scott Gomez" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:25:39 -0800
That's the best Christmas present ever. It's men like you, Andrew, that
give all of us an example to which to aspire.

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Scott Gomez 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Subject: [OM] [OT] My best Christmas present.

I had a very moving experience today and have felt the need to tell
everyone so I'm afraid you lot get it too. Just over six years ago I
noticed that one of my students, in a Year 11 Environmental Studies
class, seemed troubled and although she was bright, her work was getting
late and poor. Fortunately she chose to talk to me and I discovered that
she had real troubles. In the previous five years, her father had died,
her uncle suicided and now the boy next door had suicided as well. Every
important male in her life had left and she was grief-stricken, feeling
somehow responsible. She spent a fair amount of time staring at walls
and crying. At that point we could have lost her, seen her drop out of
school. I managed to restructure her whole course so that she went
part-time and took three years instead of two to complete senior high
school - plus add in a lot of encouragement and counselling.
She dropped in today with her mum, to say thanks. They seem to blame me
for her success. She's just completed her honours degree in Ecology and
the University has given her a generous scholarship and part-time work
to complete doctorate in Science, researching Powerful Owls.  I had to
go out the back and have a little weep after they left. Shit I feel good
today. And just a little emotional.
AndrewF
(and she's promised to help me photograph the beasts too).

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