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I am stunned by my students who are expressing their ideas in such directions I never pictured before. 對於學生對我的觀察,我總感到訝異,畢竟我不是他們,看不到身為教師的自己,在他們心目中的形象為何。 These very younger ones claim the person teaching them, me, to be pretty, gentle, with drawings and a bit elaborations which sometimes confuse me. Nonetheless, the qualities they talk about are those good ones we all want to possess as human beings. 這些國小低年級學生表示,他們眼中的我非常美麗、溫柔; 同時,他們還必須畫出圖案來表示他們的歡欣……雖然有時不大明白他們所指的到底是什麼。 Then a light bulb goes on in my head when I see myself like a movie star during the break time, for every child I have taught would stop and greet me, calling me in my Chinese given name plus teacher, or simply PUFF teacher, as PUFF sounds a bit identical to my Chinese name and I encourage them to do so. 接著,在下課時間,當我被教到的、認識我的學生們,一聲聲呼喚,猶如走過紅毯的國際影星時,這才恍然大悟他們所看到的這個「泡芙」老師 (「泡芙」和我的中文名字發音相近,又是可口的點心,所以學生們也這樣稱呼我),其實是讓他們享受了在課室當中學習的樂趣,所以,他們才這樣給我如此令人甚至飄飄然的反饋。 而我不得不承認,在暑假即將來臨的前夕,我已經開始思念這許許多多的小朋友了…… I realize it is perha...