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| Little Guradian Angel |
As a Christian, I like my students to play the game "Little Guardian Angel". This is a very popular game in the high school in Taiwan. To play this game, each of guardian angels will have to draw a paper with one name on it. Then he/she will have to make this person happy in whatever way the guardian angel can think of. Since I'm teaching Freshman English, the 'rules' I come up for my students to follow is that they have to use English when they write a note or a card. Before they start playing this game, I tell them the two things I want them to learn in this game--to love someone in that person's way and to forgive your guardian angel if he/she doesn't do his/her job well. In order to make them understand, every year I tell my Freshman English students the same story which really happened in my class years ago. About 10 years ago, I asked my agriculture-majored freshmen to play this game. During the 10 days we played this game, one girl didn't get anything from her guardian angel. I could tell how she felt because she turned her disappointment into sadness, and then anger. On the day everyone was supposed to give his/her guardian angel a gift to thank what the guardian angel had done for him/her. Everyone walked to the front of classroom and invited the guardian angel to come out so that he/she could hand the guardian angel her gift. The girl came to the front without any facial expression. Then a boy walked to the front looking very embarrassed. First, he apologized for what he had done--he had done nothing. Then he told the class why he hadn't done anything--his father passed away a month ago, so he was not in the mood for this game. As soon as the girl heard what he said, she looked surprised, and without delay she said it was OK! I eye witnessed how forgiveness happened in real life. What a wonderful lesson this girl taught me!
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