Short Term work and its long term benefits

When I was eleven years old and just started at secondary school, a supply teacher took over my English class for a couple of weeks. She was young and inexperienced, but had a real passion for her subject and a desire to connect with us on a meaningful level. She asked us to write a story and said we should just step into it ourselves and tell the reader what we could see. I remember, for the first time, doing just that. As I wrote about the scene I experienced myself as in it and enjoyed the journey that my imagination took me on. Even now as I write this I can remember some lines from that story and the places I travelled to. It was a pivotal moment for me, and one that began my journey to becoming an English teacher.