Jessica- the art teacher who taught me to draw from observation. Two years of her classes took me from childish scribble-scrabbles to being able to draw pretty much any subject from life. I learned how to stretch a canvas and mix a monochromatic grey in her class, as well as mixing colors accurately by looking for their component parts. She also didn’t mind me and my friends hanging around in her art room during lunch.
Doug- A wonderfully thoughtful, analytical English teacher who really engaged us in the subject. Before his class, I hated doing essays, but he got me all fired up about writing, reading, and literary analysis. He really, really cared about English and literature and once suggested that I should be an English major. He always wore those tweed jackets with leather patches on the sleeves and had a coffeepot going in his classroom. He was a bit of an oddball, but definitely a gentleman and a scholar. I had a bit of a schoolgirl crush on him, now that I think about it.
Dan- This guy was fresh out of college when I had him for algebra. I hated algebra and don’t remember much about his class except that it was always cold in there and he wore these tight little shirts that showed off his nipples. He had a nice bod but the visible nipples didn’t really do it for me. Also, he went to my church, which was super weird.
Melissa- Ostensibly a science teacher, but we spent most of her class watching silly videos like Alec Baldwin hamming it up about the solar system or Bill Nye the Science Guy. She taught us how to do tarot readings and was awesome and goofy.
Miyuki- Studio art teacher in my freshman year. She was a tiny, feisty dynamo who said she was in was in an all-girl biker gang when she was going to high school in Tokyo. She also had a very sweet personality.
Donald- I took his photography class when I was 16. It was a lot of fun in spite of the fact that he was constantly teasing all of us students. He had an endearingly dorky personality. The coolest thing I learned in that class was that you can take a polaroid photo, soak it in warm water, gently remove the top layer and transfer it to watercolor paper. The photo will get all wavy and distorted, which is really neat-looking.