I read somewhere that it takes three seconds for somebody to make a first impression. People do not even have to say anything before we decide weather or not we will like them. I am horribly guilty of this. I just look at someone and decide in an instant if I would like them or not. No offence to you Mr. B but the first time I saw you I thought to myself "look at this hippie". That first impression stuck with me for awhile, until I had enough interaction with you to think differently. I still think that you are a little hippie-ish. But it's no longer in a negative way. You are a good guy that cares about education, and your students.
I have been working at a boys home for the last six months. When I first started I had no idea what to expect. I was forced to work with people who I though were just punk kids, hoodlems, who I wouldn't have given the time of day to. Not long after I started I realized that they were good kids, that just grew up in bad situations. Just kids. It blew me away when I realized that.
First impressions are based on how someone looks. How I thought you were a hippie, and the boys that I work with were punk ass hoodlems. I have just recently learned not to trust my first impressions, they are very rarely correct. We should not judge on how someone looks.
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