he said…and yet he never, ever engaged in self-pity. He never let that obstacle keep him from pursuing his goals: “The anxiety of each surgery is a huge struggle for me, and it is always easy to give up and let my feelings overwhelm me and keep me out of my normal life…. These challenges have helped me build my resilience and have given me confidence that no matter what obstacles I have to face, I can still pursue my goals.”
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This next student discusses his experience and how his perspective changed while here at Country School:
can also spread good to others who have fewer opportunities.”
“Modern science has proven that any average person is able to be ‘smart.’ All it requires is a little knowledge and a lot of effort. From our perspective, many people may see our school as a normal, everyday school that has superb teachers. However, if we attempt to look from a different perspective, we have access to tools and resources that are highly enriching and enlightening. Here at Country School, we are privileged to be able to do things like ask for help and get a remarkably more thorough education than what most of the world has access to…. At this school, we are given a chance to do our best, whether in sports, academics, the arts or any other field of interest we may have. We should seize this opportunity to do just that so we
And this student talks about how he had to come upon a new definition of courage: “During the time mom was in the hospital, various aspects of my life were redefined, such as the way I thought of fear, religion and courage. My biggest fears in life were as simple as spiders or sharks, but during the four weeks my mom was gone, my definition of fear began to change from spiders and shark bites to something much bigger and scarier. “I grew up thinking I was a courageous kid, but I didn’t know true courage until those four weeks last spring. I had always thought courage was jumping off the high dive, or going on a scary roller coaster. I have learned that real courage is to be strong for my two younger sisters.”
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12. Clay and Kara Prawl • 13. Barbara and Mike Conrad, Ann Conrad Stewart ’78, Cal Stewart ’14, Mayze Teitler ’11, Carson Teitler, John Teitler and Cece Conrad Teitler ’80, and Judith Katz and Michael Teitler • 14. Tom ’75, George and Melanie McGlade • 15. Jenny Cohen Zonis ’82, Maia, Charlotte ’12 and Jon Zonis • 16. Kevin, Ryan, Tucker, Dylan and Kendra Seth • 17. Emma and Kate Tapscott • 18. Sabrina and Ari Fleuriot
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NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL BULLETIN // Summer 2015