Simple Leap Might Lead to An Amazing Experience

I took a big leap last night. A few of Southeast PAECT's members have been conversing with a local celebrity, Second Lady of Pennsylvania, Gisele Fetterman. For those of you that don't know who she is (it's okay), I will admit that prior to a news article about her, I had no idea who she was either. Honestly, until Covid, I hadn't even paid that much attention to our Lt. Governor John Fetterman. Now I follow them both on Twitter because their back and forth banter is funny and a welcome relief from many political posts. 

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Besides their adorable teasing of each other, Gisele Fetterman also tweets about her many charities. One of these charities is what lead to our recent back and forth and my leap of sending an email. Fetterman recently shared her excitement for being assigned an adopted family to cook dinner for through lasagnalove.org. This started the discussion for me when I responded that I wish I knew how to make a lasagna and she responded we could learn together.

Flash forward to the next exchange with myself and one of our regional board members when I tweeted about doing a virtual cooking class for #TeacherSelfCare and she responded "Please invite me ❤️❤️❤️❤️". Seriously fangirling at this point. So I reached out to the rest of our regional board and then with them agreeing that it would be a great event, I sent an email to the Lt. Governor's office. 

Now I'm waiting for a response, but I'm just proud at my professional growth to be brave enough to even reach out for something like this. The old me would have been afraid of rejection. Now I'm taking more risks because the worst that can happen is she says no and we'll be exactly where we are now.

Can we still host a virtual cooking class without Gisele Fetterman? Sure. Will it still be fun without her? Of course. So whether she can join us or not will not really change the event. However, if she can join us, her presence will be exciting for all our members who are currently working really hard to help students.