Be True to Your School
Today I had the marvelous pleasure of having dinner and (super-delicious) margaritas with Linda Davey, my former AP English teacher, and some friends that were also in her classes in high school. Lionel was unable to attend, so I’ll just assume that he had some sort of top-secret government mission to attend to. I will accept no other excuses. We had a fabulous time at El Pinto catching up on each others’ lives and reminiscing about the good ol’ days (which seems to be a theme of this past week). Unfortunately, Linda had to leave early, but the rest of us (myself, Laura, Rob, Gabby, Cosette, Christian, and Christine) stayed for a bit longer, then headed over to Satellite until close (another theme of the week) and finally to IHOP since it was one of the only places still open (yet another common destination of the past few days). Amusingly enough, on our way out we ran into Andrew Turley, who was sitting with Kerian (another old classmate) in the same booth where I sat with him and Jackie last night. It was an incredibly fun night catching up with friends that I don’t get to see very often (and just hanging out with those who I do get to see more often). Hopefully we’ll finally be able to realize our goal of getting together with Linda, Lionel, and Peggy Syers (the “Holy Trinity” of AP classes, if you will) sometime during the summer. If there is one thing I would love to see it would be the three of them reunited over drinks. They had the most amazingly dynamic banter when they were all teaching at RRHS, so throw in a couple of margaritas and I am all over it. In all seriousness, I have never known any other teachers more interested in and caring about their students, both while we were in their classes and in the years that have passed since. All three of them were incredibly influential on my attitude about school in my junior and senior years of high school. I respect them immensely for treating their students like equals and showing a true personal interest in each and every one of us.
(Title: the Beach Boys)
