On the first day of summer student teaching for the NYC Teaching Fellows, Kelly and John met at a school in Borough Park, Brooklyn. One day a group of Fellows found out that we were all teaching at the same school site. The four of them, John, Safi, Jessi, and Kelly went through two grueling years in grad school at Hunter College, all while being first and second year teachers at PS 138. We all became really close friends. The summer after graduation, they all worked summer school together. The party after the last day of summer school, sparks ignited between Kelly and John. The rest was history.