Moment of "Ahhh"

What was the moment (or moments) this past week when you felt most connected, engaged, or affirmed as a teacher - the moment(s) when you said to yourself, "This is what being a teacher is really all about"?

It is funny that this is the question for this week because we were on fall break. :) So, last week, sitting on the beach, was a definite feeling of "This is what being a teacher is really all about". But since I know you would like a classroom example, I have one from this morning. My students were talking about the different things they did over the fall break and they began discussing various situations where law enforcement officials were involved. I opened the discussion up to the rest of the class and found that many students had witnessed law enforcement engaged incidents. What has changed since the beginning of the semester, however, is that most of the comments were in support of the officers instead of against the officers. Many of my students enter my class with such a negative attitude toward police. I was so happy to see some of these same kids defending the officers' actions instead of demeaning them. To me, teaching these kids that police are not their enemy, but their allies is a huge breakthrough that I doubt they would make without this class.