Birthday Parties

Yesterday was my favorite teacher in the entire world's birthday. She is one of those teachers who makes you want to be a better person, and will always be there encouraging you and pushing you to do your best. She had mentioned to me and my roommate that her birthday was coming up, but she flatly refused to tell us when it was. So we took matters into our own hands. We went upstairs to the secretary and asked her. Then, our party planning began. Secretly, of course :) We sent a sign-up sheet around class, and asked people to sign up to bring stuff. Needless to say, it was a hit. Our teacher was already planning on bringing us cake as an end of the semester treat, but she didn't know about everything else we had planned! We had cookies and cake, and fruit, and vegetables, and chips, it was great. Our teacher stood up and told us that her husband, son, and grandson were all at scout camp right now, and her mom wasn't able to remember her birthday, so if we hadn't done what we did, she wouldn't have gotten to celebrate at all. She started getting choked up as she was telling us this, and it was just the sweetest experience ever. I'm so glad that we could give back to an amazing lady who has given me, personally, so much. Whenever I am in one of her classes, I remember exactly why I want to be a teacher.