Few minutes before the end of the lesson, my students asked me to face backward. At first, all of them were busy drawing something at the white board, leaving me alone facing the wall. They forbade me to look at the white board when they had not finished their drawing yet. One of them were even dancing in front of me to cheer me up while waiting for it. I thought they were drawing and writing something bad about me since they kept laughing during the process of making the surprise. Lots of thing appeared in my mind at that time. I imagined that they would wrote that I was ugly, and something else like that. It seemed like an hour when finally they permitted me to turn over and see the drawing. I was shocked. I could not speak even for a word. My tears seemed going to fall down. Can you guess what they write? They did write that I was a queen, a beautiful one, but the sentences that made me melt down was “I love Auntie Ellen (The course let the students to call their teacher with Auntie instead of Ma'am or Miss). They drew five characters represented themselves with their names below each character and wrote down on the top of those pictures this sentence: “Nicole, Rissa, Vina, Jihan, and Ratih love Auntie Ellen.” There were also a lot of flowers drawn on the white board.

I only could say thank you and told them that I loved them too. I was very thankful for the surprise. I had never imagined they could do that such of thing. The children's mind is really unpredictable but they do have a pure and honest heart. All you need to do is just give them a freedom to elaborate their skill and give them your trust. Keep taking care of them to remind them if they have been out of the line, but give them as much freedom as you can. Children have their own world which will never be able to be understood and ruined by the adult.