Mrs. Eva Foxwell
Best Teacher Award!
It all really started when I walked in my business class on the first day of school of the 8th grade, and what I first saw this women with a huge smile on her face and her hair all done up, nails acrylic and done with a fancy design, and dressed like she was going to an interview. This women was Mrs. Eva Foxwell and she would soon become my favorite teacher ever, even though my friends that were in the grade above me said that she was mean and that she made us do so much work. Honestly I wasn’t really looking forward to her class.

I would soon realize that these people were wrong and that she didn’t really give us that much work; it was all about time management, which was one of the most important lessons that I learned from Mrs. Foxwell. She taught me so much not just about business, but about life in general and about how you have to be able to manage your time right if you want to get anything done in life. She would always tell us that if you don’t like what you have to do or who you have to do it with then “TOO BAD!” that’s life. She would say that sometimes in life you have to do things that you don’t want to do with people that you don’t want to do it with, but you have to do it and that’s that, no if ands or buts about it.

I remember when we were in her class she would always make the projects we had to complete fun! Sometimes we’d write a report or make a poster about something and it didn’t seem exciting, but then she’d let us put our own personal touch on it; we could add pictures or we could add our own opinion, just so it didn’t feel so much like a job and totally boring. Mrs. Foxwell was such a wonderful and outgoing person. If you saw her outside of school, you most likely wouldn’t be able to tell she is a teacher; you would probably think she was a fancy business woman. That’s what I loved most that she always looked like at any moment she would be ready to be in an interview with a fancy corporation.

Although I did see a glimpse of what the upper classman meant when they said she can be mean. A few weeks into the school year she gave us a little speech about herself. She said she would just love to always have fun and be nice and make the learning experience so much fun, but if she has to, she will be a “Drill Sergeant”. She could make the course boring and plain, but she really doesn’t want it to have to be that way. That’s what really made me realize that she was serious and that she was really trying to really make an effort to make it as fun and entertaining as possible. Lord knows it could be BORING if she wanted to make it that way.

Mrs.Foxwell was the type of women that I would inspire to be like when I’m older because I feel like no matter what her home life is like, if it’s bad or if it’s good, she would always come in with a smile on her face and a bright and positive attitude. She taught us that if you ever get to the point of crying, don’t do it in public because that will show that you can’t handle whatever task has been given to you. You should always go to the bathroom or somewhere you can be by yourself and cry and get it all out of your system. Then march yourself back and get the job done and show that you can handle anything that is thrown at you and that you can be trusted.