the rabbi

kids are the sweetest things. and they say the darnedest things. my favorite bits out of my Teachers' Day tribute -

the cover has a picture of me looking like a constipated criminal, but i'v decided not to crib.

"..she is very buetiful and a vigorous reader with many suggestions to give us about books." vigorous reader. perhaps i flip the pages with a lot of vigor?

"..is always carm and cool. for her nobody is good and nobody is bad. she explains and not take action." i think he meant to say that i am fair. i hope so, anyway. or maybe he meant that i am an unfeeling twerp?

stamp of approval from someone experienced. serious stuff - "..you will never get bored in her class. i say this, because i am experienced."

"with a cup of tea, her mood is very good"

"she organises her space, time perfectly" little monster. calling me fussy.

i am going to quote him when i win the Peace Nobel - "once we were lost, but she came and guided us to the right path. because of her hard work, we are at this stage." the state of the stage is questionable. i am not sure if he meant the last bit as a compliment.

things that make little boys grateful - "when she scolds us, she also jokes. she sometimes gives us extra time for submitting our work. she also shows us videos and asks questions in a quiz."

"whenver it is her turn to teach, i never get bored. she gets angry less often. and because of her, i somewhat started to like Math." high praise. intelligent kids are so difficult to keep interested.

lucky, lucky day. i have found a helpmeet in this difficult world - "my teacher is very serious about work. she gives us homework that is lengthy but at the same time interesting and joyfull. she says if we want to have fun we also need to follow some rules. she gives us many options in working. we will follow her rules and help her to manage this difficult world." yahoo.

" ma'm is supper best. if there was gold on one side and ma'm on the other i will choose ma'm. when my mode is bad i see her and it becomes good." this is my cue to start teaching Degrees of Comparison, and work a bit on getting their spellings in order. 'supper best' is definitely more interesting than a tame super best, but there are times when one has to be conservative.

"she scolds in the regular way. she cares about us and wants us to be healthy. i eat my salad now." he does, he does. small battles won.

my favorite - "she follows nonviolence, peace and politeness." i do indeed. surprising really.

"'she cooperates with us and we also do sometimes." the 'sometimes' is so totally totally true. thank god for small mercies.

"i like her because of her way of speaking even if it is a scary movie. her facial expressions are nice."

"when ma'm speaks i think that a cut sparrow is speaking to me." i sincerely hope he meant 'cute sparrow'. i'll seriously have to do something about the spellings. or, good heavens - my voice.

it is funny. one does not even realize when it is that other peoples' kids slowly become one's own. how so much space can be created in an ordinary human heart. this is such a delicate, frightening thing, this handing over of precious people to be looked after at strange hands.