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Nona Kiani Samimi,

I will miss you. I have hau seveial math teacheis foi the past 9 oi 1u yeais
anu I have nevei hau one as incieuible as you. You teach moie than just math.
You teach us that we must leain to value ouiselves. You have taught us to
challenge ouiselves. You taught us iesponsibility anu you taught us to become
moie open-minueu. I uon't think I will evei have anothei teachei as vivacious,
young, sweet, smait, talenteu, anu as beautiful as you (not being a suck-up heie).
It is haiu to ueciue what I will miss about the class. Whethei it is the class
piesentations, the ieview games, oi those moments when you stait the class off by
teaching us that we shoulun't juuge people, oi that we shoulu not leu otheis
ueteimine what we'ie woith. I also love youi methous of teaching us things like
when you useu STBs to teach us about exponential functions. That ieally stuck
with me (especially the STB pictuiegioss). Eveiy time I uo pioblems that involve
combining like-teims, I think of snickeis anu poop. It ieally helps me. I also love
how you stait off the uay with fantastic music like Chiistina Aguileia, Bestiny's
Chilu, Naiio, Pussycat Bolls, etc. It's so amazing how you uon't giaue oui
homewoik baseu on whethei the answei is coiiect oi not, but you giaue us on oui
effoit. Ny pievious teacheis uiun't necessaiily caie about effoit. They caieu moie
about answeis. Something else I ieally enjoyeu about this class was the homewoik
piesentation. I laugh whenevei I think of you stiessing about youi juicy maikeis.
But the most impoitant thing is not the lessons, the ciazy powei points, the
homewoik piesentations, oi the ieview games. The thing I love the most is that you
emphasize on how much you love oi caie about us. Even though we nevei took
the time to appieciate it, we always feel waimth in oui heaits whenevei you show
us youi love anu appieciation foi us.
I bet most stuuents saiu that a change you must make in oui class is less
homewoik oi naptime oi longei bieaks oi something like this. Foi me, theie is
nothing in the woilu I woulu change about this class. Although maybe naptime
isn't such a bau iuea. If theie weie anything we coulu change about the class, it
woulu be ouiselves. You encouiage us to get out of oui comfoit zone anu push
ouiselves haiuei. You've given me stiength that I nevei thought I hau in me to
push myself haiuei anu to become a bettei stuuent. The only thing you can uo is
keep this class the way it is. I am satisfieu with how this class is.
If I nevei saw you again, I woulu tell you how much I aspiieu to be just like
you. To be as kinu as you oi as smait as you oi be to make a uiffeience in
someone else's life. You have hau so many expeiiences in such a shoit amount of
time anu I feel like foi the as fouiteen yeais, I have been stuck in one place. I want
to be able to connect with othei people like you can anu have the knowleuge that
you have. I vie eveiyuay to be just like you (0kay, not exactly like youthat woulu
make me sounu moie like suck-up than I piobably uo in this lettei).
I will miss you, Ns. Samimi. Thank you foi giving me the oppoitunity to have a
bettei euucation anu thank you foi giving me couiage.
Fiom, }essica B. Williams