Appreciation Day! --wait, did you say Appreciation??

So we get this assignment for "Appreciation Day" due at the beginning of class in a non-specified date. I say, "That's okay with me." A select few from my class also say something similar. And maybe another few people agreed to do it sometime this century.

Anyway, due date was moved to Fathers' Day. In a desperate turn of events, I wrote a "final" draft, which I am supposed to turn in in a "clean" state. It says this:

            I am writing this letter as a way of saying thanks to many special icons in my life. Now, I am not throwing random thank-you’s anywhere; that’s precisely what this letter’s for. I intend to have this letter sent to and read by the people or groups I mention here, because I want them to know what I feel about the opportunity they gave me to learn. I want them to know that, without their aid, I’d be in an unforgiving and incomplete state.

            I want to start by thanking, of all things in the universe, God. Without Him, I confess that I’d be nothing. He’s the mastermind behind my existence, the one entity that thoroughly cares about me. God’s decisions are nothing to be afraid or doubtful of, because His plans are for the best, even if your life is going downhill. I know that it’s His will for me to take the path He has chosen for me so that I can do my best in whatever challenge He places in my way.

            Two people I’d never leave without a thank-you are Mom and Dad. They care for me, feed me, teach me, instruct me, punish me, and it’s all for a good cause. They are the ones that formed me, and I came to life as a masterpiece, thanks to them. They knew this, and they did all they could to follow God’s plan for me. My only regret is that I have had so little to give to them in return for their countless deeds.

            Another group I would be grateful to is, of course, the institution itself. My life has been one with many spontaneous changes, which means that I am not the kind of person that willingly settles in one place forever. In fact, as of today I have attended at least four different schools, all of which I have to thank for my now outstanding knowledge of the world. I am obviously not a know-it-all (and I don’t do much of an effort to be so) but that is the sole reason for the existence of schools. One day, when I’m a grown up, I’ll go back to each of those colleges, remember the days I spent doing loads of homework for class, and thank the teachers for their help to me and my peers.

            I would like to thank so many more people, but this essay only allows five paragraphs, so at least I could thank three important figures in my life. I hope they keep supporting me, and in the future I hope to be a reflection of everything they have taught me. When I leave my country and represent it with my hard work in another country like the USA, when I become a student with honors at a prestigious academy somewhere in the world, when I graduate from the career that is my deepest desire to study from, only then will I have become that reflection.

 If you're asking, of course there was a limit: FIVE paragraphs. Call that a limit and you'll be along the ranks of 6th grade writers.