Blog : A TEACHER'S CHRISTMAS REFLECTION

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12/19/2009 7:00 am

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A TEACHER'S CHRISTMAS REFLECTION

The joys of being a teacher that no money can buy are seeing the students having progress and awareness of the real essence of life and receiving back the love and gratefulness in whatever ways students might express them. As a teacher, the best thing to do is to be prepared with the unexpected.

Today, I already knew that the craziness of Christmas will happen. Squirming, squeaking and jumping middle schoolers were terrorizing our classroom. My tension and stress levels were fast rising as I searched for my assistant. I was wishing that the day will fast forward to dismissal period. Inshort, I wanted to scape the time of Christmas program because my patience was vanishing. My tolerance level was very short due to hormonal turmoil brought by my monthly cycle. Tough!!! but I managed to smile anyway. Things went on and on. Students exchanging gifts and cards, gulping on pizzas, diving on tremendous piles of chips (gosh) smearing the carpet with sodas and playing out loud their favorite mexican music.It was a total wild and riotous party. I kept on watching the clock hoping that I will be saved by the bell of dismissal. HUHUHUHUHU!!!

Anyway, I was able to affirm and confirm (again) that teachers are always the apple of students' eyes and attention. They are very observant with teachers' ways, wants, mannerisms and dislikes.

Proof # 1:

My brood surprised me with a simple skit they prepared showing myself inside the classroom. They also prepared gifts for me. They gave me bags of chips and bottles of sodas----Oh my gosh!!!
They genuinely imitated (wow!!!) including the movement of my eyeballs whenever I am frustrated.

Everybody was laughing reaaaallllllyyyyyyy loud with my reaction.

Proof # 2:

The truth is; I never like sodas and chips. I dont know but my taste buds and preferences cant take them in my system. Even my husband found it fantastically impossible. I got a packet filled with bags of assorted chips and bottles of sodas. I was not able to hide my dismay when I had seen the content of the present. It made my students extremely glorious for they achieved their objective(waaaaaaaaaaaahhh). For the sake of curiousity, I asked my students how they knew that those are my dislikes considering that I had never shown publicly any obvious hint of chips and sodas distaste. Their united voices told me that they have been observing and noticing it for almost two years now. They cant remember a time that I picked a chip or held a glass of soda in so many occassions that we have those junkies in our trips, parties and outings.They also knew that I will end up distributing those bags of chips and bottles of sodas back to them.Hahahahahaha.

It was the funny side of my students and I was truly overwhelmed with piles of gifts and cards of all sorts on my table after the day. I got an incredible amount of M and Ms (my favorite), body wash of all kinds, kitchen ric-a-racs, blankets, perfumes, books and a lot more. It took longer for me to load all my treasures inside my car when I was going home. My coteachers were laughing because I was literally dragging a huge plastic bag out of my door. I was glad that no bags of chips and bottles of sodas left too.

When I came home, I asked my husband to help me unload things. He was teasing me about my students intentions and motives in giving me all those gifts. I did not mind his provoking jokes because last year I had the same scene during christmas.I retained some of my boys,failed some of my girls, suspended some traviesos and made some prepare a 20 page research on the importance of homework with only God can count how many revisions. Still, we are fine.

In my work, there are many heartaches and frustrations but as I look at the gifts piled in my living room, cards I kept in a special binder, posters painted by my students hanging on the wall and poems composed for me, I realized that the bad moments are just a fraction of the joys these have been giving back to me. I may not be receiving the highest salary that should compensate my labor but the rewards of happiness and dignity are more than enough to keep me going and look forward to every new day to come.

If I will be asked to choose another life in the future, I will never hesitate to choose once again the life of a TEACHER.

From my soul and spirit, I thank all my students who have been teaching me to become a better teacher everyday.

jense26 47F

1441 posts
1/1/2010 7:55 pm

See you there then.

jense26 47F

1441 posts
12/29/2009 6:46 am

hello dei,

thank you. happy new year to you. how are you? do you have fb? you can add me...jenny selayro. i will be glad to hear more from you.

jense26 47F

1441 posts
12/29/2009 6:45 am

jean_1000

Happy new year too.

jean_1000 47F