eye and girls

Last night at the basketball game one of our girls nearly got her eye gouged out. It was horrible, bloody, and shocking. Today she was back at school with an eye patch. Everything turned out ok, but it was the first time that seeing blood made me nauseous. Not that I did vomit, I was too busy trying to take care of things, but if I had had the time to stop and throw-up, I would have made the most of the opportunity. Bodies just ought not be messed up like that!

On our at-home game days the team and coaches are supposed to dress up a bit, so today I did. I wore nicer clothing and spent a little more time on accessories and make-up. As he walked into my science class today, one of my students proclaimed, "Wow Yoshi! You look like a girl today! Normally you just look like a coach or a teacher." Huh. So I guess my effort to only wear modest clothing to school definitely worked. I was gender-neutral. Not a female, but a coach or a teacher. I know that I should be happy about that, but the prideful part of me that considers myself attractive was a little put-out.

School is going well. I really enjoyed this week! I did a lot of fun things. The only non-fun things were (1) burning (and I mean burning!) popcorn in the teacher's lounge microwave, and (2) today when I tried to make Mexican hot-chocolate for my Spanish class and the water heater didn't work. My students settled for the milk and chocolate separated, but I really would have liked to make HOT chocolate. The up-side of the popcorn chaos is that my co-workers are teasing me. I know it's dumb, but it makes me feel like I fit in and am loved. They are comfortable enough with me to give me a hard time, even the principal, I feel like I graduated to a new level of belongingness and I like it!

Josh and I are doing really well. I have never enjoyed him so much!