Appreciation!

My last class with the teachers was the Tuesday before school ended. I didn’t really know it until that day as we hadn’t discussed it and I still didn’t know my summer schedule (which has been drastically reduced on the teaching front—a very nice break). My preschool teachers left early (the kids were done and so were they) but the grade school teachers came to me and asked about class…what time it would be. I hadn’t really planned anything because I had guessed that they would also leave early but when I heard that I did some pretty quick brainstorming for a class. Isabelle came with me and it was a good thing. The teachers had a different idea of class for today…We opened with prayer and then they sang me a song—a thank you song that it sounded like they had come up with themselves as I’d never heard it before and it included my name. Basically thank you over and over. One of the teachers sang it through first by herself then the others joined in. I was floored! So sweet of them. Then they gave me presents! It was so unexpected. Isabelle was then asked to take a picture of us all together. I opened my presents and found a heart picture frame with ‘God bless you’ on it (where that picture would go when I get it developed and a carved book that says ‘thank you Jesus’ and has a big flower on the other page. I have been so blessed to meet, teach, and work with these wonderful people.