My Favourite Teacher

31 My Favourite Teacher His name is Mr. Nobes. I met him when I was in Grade 7. What was special about him? He had a great sense of humour. That was the biggest thing for us. He was always sending students down to the office to get things. One day, he sent me. I had never had this chance before, so I walked around a bit. When I got back, he yelled, " Why did you take so long? Next time, I'll send a dead horse. " The class laughed and I got the message. One time, he got sick and went to the hospital for surgery. He didn't have any close family in town, so we decided to visit him. About twenty of us showed up at the hospital and told the nurse we wanted to see our teacher. She said we could go in five at a time. I was in the first group. We walked down the hall quietly. We knocked on the door first because we weren't sure if he wanted to see us. But when he saw us, his face lit up! He looked at us as if he couldn't quite believe it.

We brought him all kinds of joke gifts. People laughed the most when I gave my gift. It was a funny drawing of a dead horse with his legs straight up in the air. After a while, the whole floor was filled with kids. Many of us went to visit patients we didn't even know. The whole place grew loud, and everybody's spirits were high. It was amazing to see how happy people were to have visitors. Soon, Mr. Nobes recovered. He came back to school and told the class how much he appreciated us visiting him. He said he had a special gift to give the class in return. He told us to close our eyes. When we opened our eyes, he was holding a plastic horse glued to a piece of wood that had writing on it. It said, “ To the Dead Horse class. Long may you run! " The rest of the day was no different from any other day with Mr. Nobes. We learned and we laughed.