STUDENT DRIVE The Drive magazine in partnership with Libro Credit Union is challenging high school students taking grade 12 English to write an essay focused on their day-to-day lives. Once a school is selected, the top five articles chosen by the teacher are further reviewed by our editorial team and the winner receives a $500 RESP from Libro Credit Union, along with publication of the essay in our issue. Congratulations to Grace Hamelin from St. Anne High School for being our March winner! We are proud of all the participants and will continue to support our community through continued literacy and a path to higher education.
THE TEACHERS WE REMEMBER By Grace Hamelin | Photograph by Syx Langemann
Grace Hamelin with Mrs. Lori Rozic
In every student’s school career, there is at least one teacher who has made a considerable impact on his life. From the moment we enter kindergarten, teachers become critical role models that shape us into the people we are today. The most influential teachers approach the task of shaping a new generation with compassion, generosity, and a tremendous passion for sharing knowledge. These admirable traits carry over onto us, their impressionable students, and inspire us to become the best version of ourselves. Adolescence is a long, difficult journey of self-discovery, in which we face extremely important, yet awfully stressful, life decisions. As a seventeen-year-old student, I am living in the confusion, anxiety, and doubt that makes up teenagehood. However, these apprehensive feelings can be eased with small validations 52
