Thursday, December 22, 2005
Christmas gifts
so… Christmas is only a few days away, but i’m still required to work at my school till tomorrow. today was the last day of instruction, though, since we’re doing an all-skate Christmas party tomorrow! i’m looking forward to it, that should be a lot of fun!
since today was the last day of seeing the students in class, some students chose to pass out gifts to the teachers today. i received a couple’a gifts, and i one of them was a candle with a bow on it, and another was a bottle of sparkling juice dressed in a chinese shirt. yup, y’know, like this:
so far, i’ve only received one wrapped package.
the students have been bugging me all day to open this package so they can see what i received, but i’ve adamantly refused!!!! i told them, “dude, this is the only gift i have to open on Christmas day!!!”
yes. it’s true. not an exaggeration, not a lie. now, while i know the true meaning of Christmas is not centered around gift-giving, part of the fun of the celebration is being surprised with gifts or wondering what is in that beautifully wrapped package lying under the tree. and while i’ve received a few gifts, i also know what each one of them is - a bottle of martinelli’s, a blue candle, or even the bag that shelia brought over this week. i won’t see my brother for Christmas cuz he’s taking a trip, and he’ll probably just ask me to buy something and charge it to him, and i know my parents didn’t know what to get… i’m okay with it all because i don’t really want much more stuff to clutter up my room, but all the same, i think it’d be fun to have stuff to open on Christmas day. especially since i’ll be at my cousins’ house and they’ll have tons of gifts for everyone to open!
while telling my students this, i realized, they think i’m trying to guilt-trip them into giving me more gifts. no.... i wasn’t. i’m really just trying to save my one gift so i can open it.
and boy, when Christmas comes, i’ll have this one cherished gift to open, and i’ll have lotsa fun tearing the wrapping paper open =)