Well, so far this week hasn’t been all that bad. Nope, not bad at all.
As I’m sure you’ve read the past couple days we’ve been on a vacation this week. We get Sunday to Sunday off for a chance to rest, meet some of the team members out of the other towns, and just have fun.
So, today…what did we do today? Before I get to today I’ll start with last night. Last night Ginger and Mai came over to our house for the night to stay with the girls and catch up on old times. We all stayed up wwwaaaayyyy to late talking and laughing. But you know what? It was fun and pure greatness. Wouldn’t have missed it for the world. There’s just something about sitting with good friends and having a nice talk without a care in the world that will really relax a person. I enjoy hearing the other opinions that people have about subjects and it’s always amazed me how people who seem to get along so well can have very different opinions about a subject. It’s a thrill for me to go back and forth with people about stupid things and also about cool things. So that was last night. Much fun was had by all.
This morning Ginger and I headed out for Shui Li. You might remember Shui Li from a few months ago. That’s where the “Castle” school is. I teach there on Thursday and had mentioned that if anyone wanted to go see the kids from the camps I would take them over there and show them around. Ginger had done the camps with me and so she wanted to go say “hi”. So off we went. As we walked up the stairs Ginger seemed to get more excited as she saw the coolest school in Nantou again. We had arrived there just in time for a 20 min break so we walked around the halls for a bit, while I said “hi” to all my little students and while ginger tried to find some kids who remembered her. We managed to find about 20 kids who remembered her before the bell rang. Soon all the students went scurrying off to their classrooms and Ginger and I left in search of the bus. We had some serious fun to get to in Nantou.
After a quick lunch of McDonald’s on the way we stepped off the bus next to a large open field. Off in the distance we could see about 15 or so crazy white people chasing each other around the field yelling things like “ULTIMATE!!!!” or “LEFT!! LEFT!!! NO…RIGHT!!!”.
Yes…we had found the ultimate field…let the games begin people.
We split the teams up and began to play some really good ultimate Frisbee. For those of you who don’t know it’s like foot ball, soccer, and Frisbee all mixed into one game. It’s a ton of fun and pretty much anyone can play if they can catch or throw a Frisbee. And trust me…with this group you don’t have to be all that good at all. We played for maybe an hour or so before we took a break. After running for drinks we started up again. This is where my day got interesting.
I’ll stop here to say this…If I have any more vacations I’m going to end up killing myself or becoming a cripple I think.
We had just played about 9 points when Chase and I bagan to run after a really long throw. We are pretty much the same speed and ended up getting to the Frisbee at the same time. I thought to myself “self, if you jump and grab the Frisbee you can get it before Chase does”. So I jumped. There was one problem though. My knee said something like “YOU MORON YOU CAN’T DO THAT!!! AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!” As my knee then hyper-extended causing a nice bit of pain to run through my leg I collapsed to the ground gritting my teeth. It wasn’t that it hurt all that bad it just scared me to death. You see, about 8 years ago I did something similar to it and ended up doing some bad damage to my knee that still bothers me to this day. I was thinking to myself “great, I’m gonna end up in a wheel chair now.”
Well, to make a long story short it still hurts but I didn’t damage anything. After some ice and cleaning up all the cuts and bruises it’s doing much better and I was even able to go bowling on it tonight.
Ahhh…Bowling…yes…that was….um…funny…yeah…uh…
Me bowling is like watching a water buffalo try to dance ballet with a pregnant elephant. Though I think my bowling looks much worse. I bowled 2 games and got a MMMFFFPPHH both time… oh what? You didn’t hear me? Sorry. I said, “I scored a MMMFFFPPHH.” There did you get it that time?
Anyway, this is just a fast run-through of what we did today. Take care and have a nice one yourself. Wednesday was good and I think you’ll enjoy it.
So until next time,
Daniel
Ji Ji
