The Things I carry

Every morning on Sunday at 8:00am I wake up and get ready to go to my confirmation class at 9:00am. I must go and make sure that my students are getting the knowledge so they can get confirmed on June. Their spirits are one of the untangible things I must carry with me. I choose to teach them, and to this day I had never once had the feeling of regret. I remember two weeks before they left for winter break I suggested that they could have a secret Santa before they went on break and they agreed to the idea. We all (including me) wrote on a piece of paper what our favorite color was, favorite candy, what do we like, for example Starbucks, reading, shopping etc. Well I got my student named Kamille and one of my students named Rene got me. She wrote she wanted a Starbucks gift card and I wrote on mine anything twilight (since I'm a big twilight freak). The day that we had planned to do the secret Santa was they day I came with stomach flu so I couldn't go to class that day. I was feeling awful not just from the stomach ache but missing out on an event my students were looking forward and I had to stay home. A few days passed and I went to mass on December 24th. Who do I see there? I see Kamille, I give here the gift card because I had it in my wallet since the day I bought it. A few weeks passed and we all came back to class. What surprised me that Rene came up to me and gave me my present (which I was surprised he remembered) and I got the ultimate gift EVER. He gave me the last book I needed to complete my twilight collection, he gave me Breaking Dawn. that brought me exuberance. To this day I carry that book because when I carry it and something feels tedious I just stop what I am doing and bust out the book and start reading.