Day 70

Today was a really hard but uplifting day, and I'll never forget it.

Ever since I've been going to Fruita Monument I have been trying to find a teacher that would have known my Uncle, Terrence. He went to Fruita Monument too and he was going to graduate in 2000 but he dropped out and then he died two years later. Yes, he's been dead for twelve years and it still hurts because I have memories of him. Last year I found him in the old year books in our library. This year I felt I found a part of him.

Mr. Stockert, my American Gov teacher, was telling us today about how he went to Fruita Monument and how he went to college and he came back to teach at Fruita. He told us about he graduated in 2000 and that's when it just clicked for me. After class, I talked to him for a bit; I asked him if he ever knew a Terrence Ashcraft. To him the name was familiar, but when he looked at his picture in one of his year books he remembered him. I cried.

Then, today was the Thanks-For-Giving dinner for the Partners program and my Senior partner and best friend Maggie and I won the Partners award. We've been together for nine years now and I've never had as great as a friend as her. I'm so thankful for today, because I haven't been this happy for a while.