The end of the academic year usually brings about parties, free-time on the computers, games and when I was in year six, learning French! Yes this was before learning a secondary language was compulsory. However, with the end of my A2 exams in college, (UK) the only thing this has brought is the complete end to all lessons.
Oh and also the extremely tricky task of buying presents for teachers.
Firstly, there is the issue over whether you have to even buy presents for teachers when they have only taught you for a year or two. Some students I have met have simply dismissed the idea saying they are definitely not going to buy a present for that ‘crap’ teacher!
For me however, it is a simple decision. My teachers have been great in the two years I have spent at college (if you’re one of them reading this then look away now) and so I want to show my gratitude to them. It is more difficult though because as you get older, it isn’t your parents who are funding the presents but yourselves so teachers, if an older student gives you a present then know they do really mean it. The other difficulty of course is simply deciding what to buy!
You don’t want to follow the norm by giving just a box of chocolates as they would be finished and forgotten by the end of the day! When I finished primary school at the age of 11, I gave my teacher a glass swan shaped ornament which still sits on her desk to this day. That is the kind of present I like to give, something that is simple yet original.
That of course makes things difficult. One of the reasons why chocolates are so popular is simply because it is easy to pop down to the shop and buy them. Not that there is anything wrong in giving chocolates, it just depends on what type of present you woud like to give.
I have four female and two male teachers to buy presents for this year so serious thinking is required! What have your experiences been when buying presents for your teachers? If you are a teacher, then what was the best present you ever received?
Until Next Time
A-Happily-Worried Student
A WORRIED STUDENT 
I really like this post 🙂
Your sentiment has been put across really well 🙂
Good job.
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Thank you! 😀
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Great to meet you through the artistry – i like you open-hearted mind-sharing and find this of crucial importance as we transform a worrisome world into a happily at-ease world as we move through it with such a passion for asking of ourselves together, emphasis multiplied, what are the best questions – and your inquiry is brilliant and approachable, may your alchemy prove
You should check out ‘The Genesis Generation’ on Matrix Masters if you have not already, a great piece which goes into detail about how one would go about learning all needed (based not on a fixed-fee building-boxed curriculum, but designed by your intuitive interest). It is a great listen regardless of what you’re going for exactly. Also, i recommend nakamotoinstitute.org a great explication of all the work in transforming our exchange through pure ‘currencies’. The essence of what i hear in your work so far, is the resonant need to transform our perspective, our language, from ‘money’ based (corporate-centric, nationalistic), to ‘currency’ based (relationship-centric, planetary) ways of exchanging the current of our intentionality. I like that this blog sphere allows us to share these issues, friendly support from across the seas, cheers Michael
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Thank you for your kind words 😀
Sounds interesting, I shall definitely check these things out. Yes, Word Press is definitely a great platform for that.
Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
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I recommend making drawings for your gifts also by the way! Good for both 😉
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Haha I have considered it but I need a way to make them look more hmm, presentable rather than just on paper.
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I would say that something that is personal, and/or homemade is more appreciated that anything. My son is only 6, so it is something I am still doing on his behalf, BUT I help him to make something edible and then I write a note specifying exactly what it is that I have appreciated about that particular teacher.
I reckon that if every appreciative parent/student in a teacher’s career gave them something tangible, they would drown under the deluge of items. Hence, why chocolates are a popular choice, I guess.
But I still have the note I was given over 16 years ago from a team that I did work with, about what they appreciated about me.
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That’s true. Something personal is always better and I have been drifiting towards that idea too. Haha true they certainly would!
That’s awesome 😀 Thanks for dropping by! 🙂
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