Cheyenne

I love teaching swimming again...or maybe I have a renewed love for it today. It only takes me feeling like I made a difference in one person life to make my job not seem pointless. Cheyenne did that for me today. A little native american girl in a tie-dyed swimsuit with her hair in pigtails, she is completely perfect in every way that a seven-year-old girl would be except that she has autism. I'll be frank, teaching disabled children wears me out, many times I feel like they are going to learn nothing, I can't think of anything to do with them...it's frusterating. But Cheyenne is different, she made me smile today, she tried everything I asked her to do and had a huge smile on her face and kept telling me how fun it was. I never realized how much fun kicking on your stomach is until today. The best part was when she was leaving and I could hear her prancing down the hall saying "I did good, I did good," in a singsong voice. She was my little miracle for today.