a lesson learned...

i am english 102 at csi and we are starting to write our reseach papers. we were free to choose whatever pretty much that we wanted to write about. me, being the person that i am, i decided that i was going to write about death and dying in some form or another. i settled on the topic of: How Death Effects a Family with emphasis of How the Death of a Child Effects a Family. to be right honest the teacher was not at all excited with the idea of me doing this topic. for what reason i am not entirely sure why, there are could be many reasons. untimately i could care less. i fought and she is allowing me to write on this topic. i have been super excited since i found out.

well i had the great idea that i was going to conduct an interview. i emailed and asked Ms Teresa Burgess, who lost a son the summer before he entered his 10th grade year, if she was interested in doing an interview and helping me with the paper. i really didnt have my hopes up and was prepared for her to say that she would realy prefer to not. but she was ecstatic at the idea. so i went today and did the interview. it was really something that amazed me. i really didnt have any idea about how complex losing a child was. i really learned a lot from her and it is going to be a wonderful resource for me in my paper as well as just a fabulous resource for me as a person for the future. i will keep you up to date on how the paper is coming along.