英语美文:Student Teacher
I was a little nervous about my students remembering the more difficult songs. I thought that we didn"t rehearse enough to do the songs justice. However, I was sadly mistaken. My students performed brilliantly. Bing Crosby himself couldn"t have done a better job on that warm Arizona winter day. My students sang with an honest heart and with simple intentions. I believe that this sentiment is what made them shine through as beautifully as they did.
My class and I were on a field trip to Chris Ridge Retirement Home and Care Center in Phoenix, Arizona. We were there to sing holiday songs to people who might have needed a little cheering up during the holiday season. This care center has three floors. The first two floors were for residents requiring help in taking care of themselves. The third floor was an Alzheimer"s unit - a lockdown floor where the patients" dementia had progressed significantly. Most residents on this floor seemed to wander around in a dazed and confused state. The lockdown was to prevent any of the residents from wandering off and becoming lost in the busy city. This floor made my students the most nervous.
We sang beautifully on the first two floors. The residents loved our songs and the cards that we left with them. My students were truly feeling the holiday spirit as we entered the elevator to take us to the third floor. Their apprehensions quickly set in as we stepped off the elevator and into the lobby of the third-floor unit. As the residents were put into their chairs for our performance, my selfish mind asked itself, What good will we do here? These people don"t recognize that we are even here. How are they going to appreciate our singing?
As we began singing, most of the residents stared off at the walls or floor. It seemed as though my premonition was going to be right. However, one lady caught my eye. She was sitting by the door, in a wheelchair, singing songs to herself. They weren"t the songs that we were singing, at least they didn"t sound like it. As we got louder with each festive song, she did likewise. The louder we got, the louder she got. As she was singing, she was also reaching out to us with her hands and body. I knew that I should have gone over to her, but I thought that my responsibilities were to my students. People who worked at the care center could attend to her, I thought. Just when I stopped feeling guilty about not giving her the attention she needed, one of my students, Justin Proctor, showed me what the holiday season is really about.
Justin noticed the same lady by the door. The difference between us is that he acted on her needs, and I didn"t. During the last song, "Silent Night," the lady was singing the loudest that her lungs could let her. She was reaching out as far as she could, almost to the point of falling out of her wheelchair. Justin stopped singing. He walked over to her and grabbed her hand and held it during the rest of the song. He looked this aged lady in her eyes and with his actions said, "You are important, and I will take my time to let you know that."
This tired, elderly lady seemed to regain, if only for a moment, what she had lost - her memory. She stopped singing and held his hand. She then took her other hand and put it up to his face. She touched his cheek. Tears began to fall down her wrinkled face, as the memories - for that brief moment - began to rush back into her mind. No words can completely portray that poignant moment. It took a boy to teach me, a man, about kindness and love. Justin"s example of complete, selfless compassion toward another was a lesson that I will never forget. He was the teacher that day, and I consider myself lucky to have witnessed his lesson.
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