Professor Delivers Thanksgiving Meals To Students Stranded Due To Travel Restrictions

• Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Pearce from the University of Iowa was worried or her students celebrating Thanksgiving alone. 
• Many of them wete stranded in Iowa City because of travel restrictions. 
• That’s why, she decided to deliver them Thanksgiving meals comolete with the traditional turkey.

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Many celebrations and gatherings have gone not so well as planned this year because of the global pandemic. And while many were able to celebrate the holidays with their loved ones, a professor from the University of Iowa has her thoughts lingering on her students’ welfare. 

Many of Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Pearce’s students were unable to go home for thanksgiving because of travel restrictions. They had to stay in Iowa City apart from their families and the thoughtful professor couldn’t stop thinking about what she could to ease their longing.

So Liz decided, with the help of her family, to deliver Thanksgiving meals — complete with the traditional turkey — to her students living within 20 miles from their home. 

My professor is absolutely too pure for this world😢❤️ pic.twitter.com/jrXRifFnp8— leah girl (@leahh_163_) November 19, 2020

“I know this has been a difficult time for a lot of you,” she says in an email she sent out to her students — who most of them she hasn’t even met in person yet because she has been teaching remotely. “I don’t want anyone to feel alone at Thanksgiving or to miss out on a home-cooked family dinner.”

One of her students who received the email, Leah Blask, was so touched with her message she decided to post it on Twitter. 

“My professor is absolutely too pure for this world,” she said in the caption along with the screenshot of the email. 

The post quickly went viral and soon enough people were donating to fund the professor’s meals. But Liz declined all offers of payment because she just wanted to simply offer something that her students could smile about. 

“You know, they’re managing and they’re trying to do coursework while they’re sick. They’re not able to see their family when they feel vulnerable. Many of them have lost their part-time jobs and feel a sense of financial insecurity. And some of their families have hardships too. So I think they’re juggling lots of difficult fights right now. And just in talking with the students, I just felt like maybe they needed a bit of pick-me-up,” Loz said. 

Truly, being an educator is the noblest profession of all because it takes a great amount of knowledge, patience, courage, empathy, sympathy, love, and kindness to understand, impart, care, and give to people a teacher doesn’t even know, in all times, and in all places.

Source: Inspire More