0613 My students will graduate.

In July, many schools in Taiwan were hold graduation ceremonies because it was the time for graduation. Before I came to the US, I had been a teacher for three years. In the second year of my teaching career, I was a teacher of a fourth grade class, and there were 32 students in the class. Actually, it was my first time to manage a class by myself, so I was a little nervous in the beginning. The time passed by, I was getting better in teaching and did not feel nervous. However, after teaching them one year, I had to leave them and took the military service. In those years, I still have kept touch with them. Recently, some of them told me they will graduate from their elementary school in June, and asked me to take part into their graduation ceremony. Unfortunately, the date of their graduation ceremony is at June nineteenth, so it is impossible for me to go back Taiwan to congratulate them in person.

I thought that even though I cannot participate in their graduation ceremony, I might do something to congratulate them. Thus, I planned to write postcards to them as their graduated gifts. Two weeks ago, I bought almost twenty postcards and started to collect their addresses. When I wrote the cards one by one, I realized that there is a Chinese proverb, “good teachers are good friends.” I was their teacher before, but now I seems be their friends although they still call me teacher Chou. I finally finished writing all cards and mailed cards to them last week. Yesterday, one of the students I mailed cards to left message to tell me he has already gotten the card. I am glad they got my cards, and I also hoped those cards can make their lives better when they finished their first stage education in the learning lives.