BOW right in the kisser!

8 days left. Still no creative juice.

I will say that I am anxious about this trip. Everyday I get more and more anxious. I feel like I am the one getting married not the future Mr. and Mrs. Cossette. Wow. Saying that brings a smile to my face and a jolly laugh to my belly.


Since, I am not producing any blog posts recently, I give you my friend, Jason Kamminga. (If you remember I have posted one note from him before on here):

So I'm on the soccer field with my 6th graders yesterday. Playing a little soccer with the kids. Had to judo trip one kid who was trying to "dong chong" my ass (non Korean peeps, that is making a pistol with both hands and trying to stick in your butt), Korean kids love that trick. I don't.

Anyway, I running down the left wing and this kid crosses it to me, and I take the ball, holding up the ball with my back to the goal outside the box (smaller field maybe 15 yard?). I'm feeling a bit Steven Gerrard at the moment, I turn inside on the kid guarding me, take a dribble, a crows hop, and unleash a shot. It felt so good coming of my foot, it had a little bend on it heading right for the left side of the goal mid-high! It was perfect until a 6th graders comes into frame and take my rocket shot square in the face. Since he is Korean, you should know he has and %85 chance of wearing glasses. Yep, those get busted. About a second before the kid gets smoked in the dome, I'm in that phase where everything slows down, like the tranq scene in "Old School" . Student and Glasses, meet astro turf. The whole school yard throws up a collective "OH" like when you get postered in an NBA game. Then silence, then I'm waiting for a kid to wail, "your in trouble or I'm going to tell my mom". However, the kid just puts his hands to his face, as he lies on the grass. His glasses were toast. I ran over a was like "you alright" and was patting him on the back, hoping like shit he was okay! He gave me that 'I'm in pain, but its cool teach ' hand slap. fucking tough kid. I was super proud of him taking my rocket ball off his face! He went back in the game to after like a minute rest! I however found a convenient time a few minutes later to sneak away from the game, like Carl Spangler after he blows up the golf course in caddy shack.

I had to get ahead of the story on this one so I told my co-teacher about it and and said that if the parents complain, I would pay for the glasses (and hope they were cheap). Kid speaks good English so I think his dad is pretty well off. Saw him today and his friend was like "very expensive new glasses" so I felt pretty bad.

Guess I'd have to say if there was ever I time I could kick a ball as hard as I could and have it go off someones face, this would be the best scenario. If it was on video, it would have looked freaking sweet. Just sayin.

Notes:

Selection Sunday is this coming Sunday. Get ready to fill out your brackets. Who's starting one this year?

P.S. classes have been going swimmingly. I call my kids 'playgirl' a lot. I know they have many boyfriends. Those heartbreakers.