The following messages were written on April 24, 1996.



     Dear Mr. Geib,
     What I always ant to tell you that you are my favorite teacher ate Berendo Middle School and one thing I'm going to tell you I'm not going to get in gang or drop off school.
     Wen I firs came to Berendo I felt embarrass but you help me have friends but what I learn more is how to right and read and one thing I now that I'm goig to remember all my life and how to keep my promise and do my homework so that's all I'm going to talk about good by.

     Sincerely,
     Michael A.


     Dear Mr. Geib,
     Before I go to 7th grade I want to tell "ONE MORE THING". First good luck Mr. Geib. I was glad that you were my teacher. You were my favorite teacher. Thanks to you Mr. Geib we learned a lot of English. And thnaks to you I am going to kept trying. I am going to study a lot.
     I am going to do all my homework. Thanks to you we stay in school to study and be something in life. Mr. Geib, I am going to try and try and try to get much better. If my sister comes to Berendo I hope that she is with you Mr. Geib. I always tell my sister that I wish she was with you Mr. Geib when she goes to Beredo. Thanks to you Mr. Geib whe will have a better future.
     This is the "ONE MORE THING" I wanted to tell you Mr. Geib. Thanks for teaching us Something in life. I want my sister to be a better future and that better future is with you Mr. Geib. Mr. Geib you were a very nice teacher. Thak you very much Mr. Geib. I am very happy being in your class.

     Sincerly,
     Elizabeth R.


     Dear Mr. Geib,
     I want to tell you that I'm grateful for all the things you have done for me. Like putting me in front of the class so people would not bother me. I only wish that I can repay you in some way, but I can't. But I will remember what you told me, about the way I need to defend my self. I also want to say thanks for the things that you did for me and the class. You didn't just taught us English, you taught us about life and other things. So I thank you for that.

     Sincerely,
     Jose Luis H.


     Hi MR. Geib I will like to be end your class agian but. MR. Geib a will be end your class agian end Berend. I like to leren more den I will be end the class of the. techer I will lernin more den the nater people a will. es espek englihs more den the people end the country. I will go to advanced ESL agian end the class of the techere I want to gaf. end the fuetere I like to be end the class of MS. Keryakos end there class agian end the class. of the class of miy feberet class of the year es Mr. Geib class end the more. I starere I will be lernin more I hat endmiy bern I will have you agian bay MR. Geib.

     Sincerely,
     Abraham R.


     Hello! Mr. Geib I yes waned to said sorry for always being a bad kid. I didn't pay attention when you were reading. but I would liked to thank you for making me learn alot of things. Well I'm not gonna se you anymore because now now I am going to go to regular English. And from the teachers you are and second place for me. Mr. Brink is and first places for me because I like music alot and I play the cello I am the best cello player in the class. Thats wy I am in first place chair. When I got to your class I didn't know how to read in English that much but then I learn.
     When the 6th started I was a pretty good kid. but then I came to this semester I don't know what happened to me. That I was a pretty bad kid. Then when I was a lot and the class I started to be a pretty good kid. I just want to say thank you for letting me learn more. I wish I could have you for the 7th grade. Mr. Geib I don't know what to put but thank you again, you are a pretty good teacher. You make stuff easy to learn. Thats why I learn alot. Thank you and good bye.

     Sincerely,
     Juan C. M.


     In this paragraph I am going to talk about One Thing that is so important that thing is my "life" is the only thing that I am going to have in this world that people say that it is going to end in years and when it comes all the things that I want to have are going to be true.
     Life is the only thing that is so important in this world. The world has a lot of happiness, unahppiness, complements and other things that I am going to experience in the future if there's going to be one. There are a lot of things that I don't want to leave behind. Like all the things that I learn in all the schools that I have been in the "United States." This will be the last thing that I will be tipping of the year of 8th grade. I will be moving on to other places that I haven't been. The things that I am gong to miss a lot are the people that helped me what I am in the past 11 years they will always be good people that I am going to remember in the future. because I think that my life is going to be good but its not going to last that long. If I die and so up there I'll wait for you by the Golden Stairs. This line are one of the poems I have written in the years that I went to JR. High School in Los Angeles, CA. I don't want to go and live all these beautiful things that I have in the world that I am going to live in what? I don't know so what I want to finish all the things that I want to do in the future.
     Thank you all that have helped me in the things that I know.
     I will miss you all because I love you all.

     Sincerely,
     Manuel de Jesus C.


     Dear Mr. Geib,
     I think you are a great teacher I have learn a lot from you. I like my friends and my work. From you I learn a lot. I new much things in junior high that in elemenrar. We learn new things and old things. Your a great teacher Mr. Geib. I like to learn more so I could go to UCLA and be a pediatrician. I will be sad because I will not play hang man and read a lot of stories and give us candy I will miss that too. Then I will come cisit you when I'm 27 years old. I will remember good times and fun times. Well thank you Mr. Geib for teaching us.

     Sincerely,
     Roxana C.


     In this paragraph, I am going to say good bye to Mr. Geib. Mr. Geib show us how to say new words is English. He was always there when we needed him. Mr. Geib told us many things about wars. He because his dad was in the war of WWI. I like Mr. Geib a lot becuase when we do something wrong he would always help you. He is a fine teacher for every body who does not know allot of English. This this ha been something that Mr. Geib wants to see.
     Mr. Geib was always a funny, smart, generous teacher. Mr. Geib is a smart teacher because when we don't know something he trays to pushes hard so that we could know the word. Mr. Geib is funny because he always says funny things. This has been my first year to have a great teacher. I want to be with him next year. So this is a good bye for a good teacher. I wish he gets an award for a good teacher. So long and see you in the 7th grade.

     Sincerely,
     Miguel M.


     Mr. Geib I what if you can't give me a photo of you with your signature. I thing I am going to Las Vegas and if I go I want to remember you lake my old teacher I have and I wish two thing one is have my cousins and my father buy me a computre and that my family be happy.

     Sincererly,
     Yessica C.


     Mr. Geib I want to know that you are my best teacher bicause I learn a lot of poems and you are nice. I would like to be with you next year but I don't think so MR. Geib please give me one photo to remember you when I was in your class in six grade. I wish you a good luck. Have a nice vacation.

     Sincerely,
     Aurora A.


     There's one thing I want to tell you well this semester I wasn't good like the other semester. Well I'm really sorry about it because I wasn't like I suppose to be. I had to listen and do the things you told me to do. I want to know that this semester I had a lot of problems. So I couldn't concentrade on my work. But I did good things too like making a goal in the soccer team dong exercise all days of the weeken. I did try to do my work in class. Well, I want you to know that will try my best in 7th grade.

     Sincerely,
     Josue de P.


     Dear Mr. Geib,
     I really thank you for being so nice with us. I like this semester better than the last one. And I also want to thank you for not being greedy. And I also would like to say that your the best teacher I had in my life and I really meant it. I learn more stuff with you than any other teacher. Sometimes I get verry mad but it's only temperarerly becouse I am just a kid.
     I had many friends in this school. I didn't like the elementri school's I went to you. And I really enjoy you telling things about your life. And I like that game of groups even when I had to go outside. It was really fun bein in your class. thank you for taking us to the computer lab. and thank you for the clips.

     Sincerely,
     Victor A. Z.


     DEAR, MR. GEIB I am sorry ofr all what I did rong in the class I now that I was bad in the class whith mike and I am also sorry went I dint lisend to you and went I talk back to you and I am also sorry went I dint do my Homework. goob bay I hop you have good students next month. I now you are going to mise us allot.

     SINCERELY,
     YOUR STUDENT,
     JAYRO R.


     In my class I will be sad because is the last day. It is the last day of sixth grade. And have new class and will have new friends. And don't chanigng Mr. Geib class and first period and second period. I don't want a new teacher. I want to have the friends I have and six grade and seven grade and my class. Don't see my friends want I was sixth grade. I will not have my friends and Mr. Geib class in seven grade.
     I will be scared of seventh grade. I will have new friends. And I want to see my friend for sixth walk with her. I want to have the same classes. I want to have Mr. Geib class again. first period and second I want you to be my teacher. You are a good teacher.

     Sincerly,
     Ingrid V. L.


     Dear Mr. Geib I want you to give me your photo to remember you and please sain your name and tank you for all the things thet you show me how to rea and wriet better. You taught so good that I wasn't to bee in your class for 7th and 8th grade.

     Sincerely,
     Rosa I. V.


     Dear Mr. Geib,
     The one thing I wanted to tell you is "Thank You". Thank you because you taught me how to read and write better. you also taught me what does NON SCHOLA SED VITA DECIMOS mean. Also the past tens, or new words. I also learn 12 wars. I also learn some things of the past and about social studies too. That is why I wanted to tell you Thank You. I thank you a lot.
     I also wanted to thank Mrs. Keryakos. Also I want to thank Mr. Ayala even thou he didn't wave me a Pretty good grade and also Mr. Nguyen and Mr. Hernandez. This are all the people I want to thank. I dodn't said this at the other paragraph but NON SCHOLA DES VITA DECIMOS means We Learn Not For School but For Life.

     Sincererly,
     Karla J.


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