Hi Ms. W,
I just wanted to let you know (even though I'm not your student anymore) that I'm doing a TED talk! I recently gave an "I Believe" speech in my English 9 class, and it ended up getting more attention than I thought it would. My teacher told me that I HAD to share my speech with more people. I sent her a recording of my speech, which she then forwarded to the librarian, who happens to be an organizer of this program called TEDx Youth in Ann Arbor. It has a committee of people from schools around Ann Arbor and they take high school students as volunteers to share their ideas with others. I met with the librarian (Dr. Sara Duvall), who wanted me to share my speech at the event on Saturday, March 22nd. I ended up agreeing to do it, so now I'm doing a live TED talk (kind of a smaller, toned-down version) at Skyline! The point of this message is that while it might have seemed like I wasn't really listening to the TED talks in advisory when you played them, sometimes I did (when I was there). In the back of my mind, I kind of knew that I wanted to do one, but I had no clue about what. Now I know. So thank you for being my favorite teacher (twice, along with advisory teacher and Chicago chaperone) and for forcing the TED talks into my mind, because without that, I wouldn't be who I am today.
Sincerely, XXXX
