Well, that makes it worth it

I had this computer problem (I let somebody else try to help me with viruses), and all my emails were erased. It was a terrible loss, all my correspondence; luckily I had recently emailed myself a copy of my address book, so I had that at least safely on the internet. It was also a problem for my correspondence students; the past three weeks of works they’d sent me were gone. I hadn’t corrected them yet. I couldn’t tell the until the final test, because they are from all over Lithuania. I told them I’d simply drop the last three works from the average, I wouldn’t require them to resend them; many of my students are very unfamiliar with computers and didn’t have back ups. I told them they could resend them if they needed to bring up their averages, or if they just wanted my feedback. It is my responsibility, after all. There were only two of the second type. Here is an extract from one of the essays; the topic is “ideals”:

“Some of my friends, teachers, and colleagues are examples for me. Of course not for all 100 percent but they have lineament which I like and I try to follow them. I like one of my teachers from Klaipeda College because of his management of talks with students. He managed to present all themes in a very interesting way. When I see the name of an author of a piece of literature I can tell everything about what it is because it was interesting to listen and I remembered almost everything. I forgot only some pieces. So I would like that all teachers managed to be interesting not for me but for all students. If one day I would be a teacher I would like to be as my teacher in college.”

I am the only male literature teacher.