I just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the five year plan demo you gave this summer at one of our TRIO summer camps.  I am in my third month applying this plan, and I’ve noticed that my efforts have borne fruit!

For instance, I’ve been learning Ancient Greek (per the promptings of a good friend and colleague of mine, Luke Ranieri). For the past few months, he and I have done live streams on his channel where we read from a practice book in Ancient Greek.  In one of these segments he noticed that my reading has gotten better, and, indeed, I noticed that reading was a lot easier.

I attribute this improvement to having spent more time practicing with the book, which, in turn, probably would not have happened if I did not draft and execute the plan that you guided the high school students through.I’ve also invested more time in my writing goals, and I’ve finished a rough outline for a project I’m working on where I am reinterpreting the myth of Persephone (the mythological queen of the Underworld).I’m still fine tuning my plan (and my discipline for that matter), but the progress I have noticed has been very satisfying. So, I wanted to express my thanks for your (indirect) advice.