Being a teacher comes with a lot of unquantifiable perks. There is bonus or anything like that, but you have moments that stick with you a lot longer than money.
Once, after teaching a unit on the Columbian Exchange in which we spent a lot of time looking at the impact on Europe of foods from the Americas, a student went home and created this.
It may not look like much, but it's a potato. At the time of the photo it was 15 years old. Laura, the student went home and freeze-dried and pressed the tuber in the style of the Inca empire (though she used a freezer instead of cold mountain air).
When she brought it to me, I don't think she had any idea how much it would mean to me (or that I would carry it all the way to Thailand). In the end, this prized potato floated out to see on the Chao Phraya River.
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