Michelle Benson:
CLASS OF 1980
Amador Valley High SchoolClass of 1980
Pleasanton, CA
Pleasanton Elementary SchoolClass of 1976
Pleasanton, CA
Parkview Elementary SchoolClass of 1973
Garden grove, CA
Michelle's Story
Life
Well after begrudgingly moving to Michigan after my sophomore year at Amador, I spent that first midwest winter getting my dad's (California-plated) truck stuck in snowbanks and ditches! Eventually graduated in '80 in a class of 48 students! I moved to Florida with friends for two years, and finally had enough and returned to Michigan to go to college. Over the next several years I was married, went to art school, moved around the state a few times, had three sons, one divorce, three more colleges, several jobs, and wound up as far north as one can go in Michigan without crossing the border into Canada. There I lived on a small island for 10 years in the St. Mary's River and lived my life around the ferry schedule and the 4 seasons. (Still shivering after 20+ years in Michigan)
I became a high school art teacher and a varsity swim coach. (Me a teacher!) My student...Expand for more
s cannot pull the wool over my eyes, I tell them I have done it ALL. I have loved being a mom to my boys, they are my world. My goal is to help them become the best they can be, and become genuine good people. They are (in 2004) ages 17, 11 and 8.
I moved to Arizona in 2001 and am teaching art at Greenway High School in Phoenix, AZ. We are buying acreage in New River north of Phx. and planning to move early 2005 from the hustle bustle of urbanity and heading for the desert hills. Good to be back in the west!
So life has been interesting, and I look forward to the rest of the journey without fear, I look back without regret, and who knows where it will take me from here!
I have thoroughly enjoyed the trips I have taken back to P-Town in recent years, and thankful to those dear friends that have again touched my life.
And I think now I am finally thawing out!
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