teachers' day

today we had teacher's day celebration..well sort of..actually i din really expect much cos i've spent about only a month with my form class n i thought they hadn't really warmed up to me yet. But my first gift of the day was a real surprise, it was actually given to me by 2 P6 girls whom i didn't really know that well. I've only spoken to them once really..a few weeks ago when they came to the staff room to look for another teacher n they struck up a conversation with me..they spoke to me like i was a longtime friend n i was really quite amazed at their boldness cos i was really shy at that age...u would never see me talking to a teacher like a friend..haha..but these days kids are really much MUCH bolder. I was really really touched by their gesture :) .
Later after the performance by some of the students, our P offered each of the afternoon session teachers a bouquet of orchids. And i had the honour of cutting the teachers' day cake with our P n Mrs Ong, another teacher. Cos they were looking for the youngest teacher n oldest teacher in the afternoon session to do the honours..well i guess most of u can guess which category i belong in huh? hee... but i count it as an honour from God to give me the opportunity to cut the cake today :)
My kids later showered me with so many items in class, really made me feel so blessed to be their teacher...even though so many things happened later in the afternoon which made me very sad n down..i know that i need to count it all joy that God has counted me worthy of such afflictions..thank you Lord Jesus in all my situations