A Letter to Santa Claus

14 A Letter to Santa Claus Writing was one of my favourite classes in school. My teacher said I had some skills as a writer, so she asked me to help some kindergarten students write letters to Santa Claus. I asked the teacher, “ Why? Santa won't answer them. What's the point?" She told me that it was a good lesson in writing. So I agreed to help. We finished writing the letters. The next part of the project was to go as a class to the post office and deliver them. We gave the letters to the man there, and he smiled pleasantly. I was the last one to leave, and just as I was going out the door, the postman's reading glasses fell out of his pocket. I picked them up. They were broken. He said, " That's okay. I'll just put some tape on them. " I held them as he taped them up, and then I ran to catch up with the kids.

About a week later, the kindergarten teacher came to me and said, “ Guess what? Santa is in my classroom! " I knew it was just someone dressed up as Santa, but he handed out letters to each little kid by name. Santa had received the letters and answered them. It was great fun to watch each kid read a letter from Santa. I walked up to Santa to thank him before he left. When I did, I noticed that his reading glasses had tape on them. It was the post office man! That man, who worked hard at the post office, took time from his busy life to answer those letters and make the kids feel good. It made the day feel a whole lot more like Christmas for me. The post office worker had the true spirit of Christmas. And he taught me a good lesson: a little kindness goes a long way.