Happy Funday Friday, everyone.
Here's why I love doing this segment every week. Highlighting ordinary people who do extraordinary things. And showing them to you to enjoy, ending the week and starting the weekend on a high.
This week: A schoolteacher giving up her time to her students, on campus and at home.
Sonia Romero is a kindergarten teacher at Lew Wallace Elementary School in Albuquerque, NM. Some of her students live in poverty, and she does all she can to help. She has even taken in two of her students as foster children. All of this is done without any second thought or hesitation.
She appeared in a taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show and was sitting in the audience before Ellen asked her to appear.
During the appearance, Ellen gives her $10,000 for herself and her growing family (including one son and the two students turned-foster kids) and another $10,000 to Lew Wallace to help pay for school supplies and other things.
I love this woman for what she does. She deserves all the love and praise that she has gotten from fellow teachers, former students, young students and others. And all the sacrifices she made to give her students great lives just makes her amazing.
I love Ellen. She always strives to help people who do the greater good. And then gives them wonderful things they deserve. And when she does, it's heartwarming. And since this has been done since the beginning, this is one of the reasons why her talk show is one of my all-time favorites.
Thanks to aplus.com for the article (assumedly owned by Ashton Kutcher; I just saw this on Facebook)
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