Kids, you've got to love 'em

One of the perks about being a violin teacher is that you get little random gifts from your students. I love seeing the excitement in their little faces when they give them to me. Sometimes I have no idea what the gifts are but I still think they are so cute!

These are two things I got a couple of weeks ago. One student brought me a miniature pineapple from a plant in her garden. I told her I was going to take it home for my husband to see and the whole week after she kept asking if I had brought it home yet. It was pretty cute. The other is the red feather my 5 year old student made for me. She is a little Korean girl who doesn't know much English but laughs at everything I say even if I am not trying to be funny. For example, one of the pieces I taught her started with the note c and was played 3x in row. She thought it was the funniest thing. Since then she always goes back to that song during the lesson and points to the notes saying "C,C,C" and then laughs really hard. She is my favorite because she is always so happy and funny.
This past Wednesday she brought me another present. This time it was a note folded up into a distorted square with a picture of me and her with a little message she had written. It was the cutest thing!



On the back she told me this picture was of me. Isn't there a striking resemblance?