I have such thoughtful students!

I was having a pretty rotten week: my boss called me on my birthday to tell me that my school isn't renewing the lease on my apartment and, consequently, I now have EIGHT days to find a new place to live and move out of my home. Add that to various other stresses (ironically also caused by my employer) and I was left in tears. The next day one of the students I have known the entire year I've been here heard the news about both my birthday and my apartment. She offered her kindest sympathies. At the end of our conversation, I went out to get some lunch. Not even a full ten minutes after I arrived back at school, the staff called me to the front desk. My sweet student had gone out and returned with this:

I couldn't think of a nicer way that anyone could have made my day brighter!