Smiles from a mile away

This is the first time I've prepared gifts for all of the teachers,
And meant it.
They were somewhat obligatory but not completely meaningless,
Presents ended up turning into a bunch of tins full of butter cookies and chocolate bars but I'm glad I got to gift it all out to all these amazing people who deserve it.
To my Lit tutor, by 'eccentric' I meant it as the best compliment I could give someone
But after your warm thanks at receiving the gifts and your reading of the card
you had had the expression that read 'What the heck did I just read'.

In other words, you're unamused
and that kinda made me feel a little down afterward.

Still,
This was quite the cool teacher's day for me.

To my straight faced Bio tutor who cracks jokes in a deadpan manner
I got him a mug that had a guy wearing sunglasses and a potted plant on his head
and it read, 'I'm not a killer'.

It was my intention for people to understand him better, you see.
(After all, he looked extremely intimidating at first glance. Ah, and to the guy readers out there if you exist?
It ain't that true that stoic male figures who own rare smiles are attractive to us- it just means that you've got a rbf like everyone else, that's all.)

To my PW teacher-in-charge,
Yet another serious-looking human who's full of dry humor-
You're the one I wanted to thank the most, really.

^He puts in a lot of effort in entertaining the never ending drafts from everyone,
And doesn't lose his temper. Strangely enough he's unconventional in an indirect manner.. And uh he kinda looks like a typical politician (pffft, and I promise it's not just because of his white clothes. It's that smile, y'know? Thaaaatttt smile.. and way of waving... ahahahaha)
(And it's such an inside joke now that my friend and I can't unsee it any longer.)

I'm glad that even if one or two of you are the biased type,
You aren't the kind to select and pick out students
And try to devalue us, whom you just dislike for some reason.

I will never forget the way one teacher treated me, treated the others with clear distinctions.
That wasn't 'education'. That was a reality check, and I realized just how lost a cause it can become if someone up there gets to be against you.


It doesn't feel like you're full of bombs ready to go off at any second, either.
You don't walk in randomly with black fumes oozing out of you and a killer-mouth that strikes at the unlucky; you don't really lose your patience all that much and you're funny.

That's the mark of good teachers to me,
That's what makes school great for us students, in my opinion.