Passion

I can very clearly remember a person who influenced my whole life with his passion. This person is Benjamin Kambs. He was my choir teacher in high school and he really was the one who stirred up my passion for choir and singing. If he was not there in my life I don't know if I would have as big of a passion. Whenever I talked about that subject with him he would "light up" so to speak and give me several examples about anything I would ask of him. His ability to give out well informed information about his passion really ignited mine.

On the other hand this was not true at all about my 10th grade English teacher. He would not care about what went on in class or how anyone did in that class. I was usually a straight A student and I managed to get an F on one of my midterm report cards. He would always hand out a lot of homework just before the bell rang and then expect us to finish before the next class. He would never talk about his subject either. He would talk about other things and ramble on about random things until the last few minutes of class. I got an F in that class at one point because the class bored me so much that I just didn't want to do the homework. I felt like it was a waste of my time. The other side of this story is the 11th grade. There was another English teacher that was very passionate about her subject and would answer any question we had about her subject matter. She gave out even more homework than my teacher in the previous year but I was still able to keep up with the work. Because of her passion, I was able to keep my grades up and like the English language once again.