Personal Narrative: Not Your Average Joe Of A Teacher

Not Your Average Joe of a Teacher
The school year had just started; I was walking into the classroom of one of my most difficult classes that junior year. As I enter the room I see a man who looked like a basic high school male teacher. Although he looked like many male teachers I have seen before, I was a little intimidated by the presence he gave off. As I sit down, and class begins, I realize that this average looking teacher is not the intimidating man I thought he was. On this day, I met a teacher who changed the way I look at my academic studies today. This teacher taught me to never give up on my academics and to believe in myself and everything will be okay. This teacher, or so-called average looking teacher, was my college chemistry teacher, Mr. Notsch.
Although Mr. Notsch looked like your average Joe of a teacher, with dark brown hair, glasses and the height of an average sized man, his personality was far from average. Mr. Notsch was one of those teachers that always made you laugh by cracking the cheesy chemistry jokes or teaching with such high energy that it was hard to get bored in his class.
Embarrassed to talk to my classmates, and ashamed to go talk to the teacher, I continued to do my homework, ask questions before class, and do the extra assignments that were not always due. As a few more weeks progressed, I improved my grades a little but not as much as I had wanted. Just as I had noticed that nothing was working, I found my way up to Notsch to ask what I should do. As I approached him I thought I knew what he was going to say, but his reply was not what I was