Will the sun really come out tomorrow?

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"Tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, you're always a day away". Sounds familiar? This is one of the songs used in Broadway's Annie, a musical which is inspired by the life story of Johanna Mansfield Sullivan, also known as Annie, the miracle worker. Her parents were Irish immigrants and worked as farmers. Her mother caught tuberculosis and while pregnant with Annie's younger brother Jimmie. Needless to say, the disease was passed on to the baby which made it more difficult for the family. The father took his frustrations out to alcohol, the mother was getting weaker and weaker so is the baby and Annie's eyes are itching a lot. Later, their mother died, her brother is now an invalid and Annie can no longer see clearly. Then, their father sent them to a relative who didn't treat them well so they were sent to an orphanage. In the orphanage, her brother died but Annie was given the chance to seek education despite of the poor eyesight. Then she was hired to be the governess of a little girl named Helen Keller. Helen was deaf, mute and blind. I am currently working as a teacher. I teach regular students, students with no disabilities. Still, there are times when I ran out of strategies to make them learn. So just thinking about having to teach someone like Helen Keller, makes me want to go back to college and take a different degree. How can you teach a deaf, mute and blind person that what she was holding is called water? But Annie Sullivan did it. Is there someone out there who have not heard of Helen Keller and her works? Together, they moved up the ladder of success. Annie is such an inspiration to me.