Last night before bed Kuniko and I played some Wii, and it didn’t turn out really well for Kuniko. She beat me in tennis the first match 3-0, and then lost the next two matches – 6 games to none. Then we played boxing to change the pace and she got knocked out in the second round. She had a pretty tough Wii experience last night. Kuniko likes to win, and there wasn’t much of that happening. I hope she’ll play it again with me sometime…
Today at school we had a few issues with some students and their parents, and I wound up with one class cancelled and more time to nurse my cold and stay warm in the staff room.
Apparently, a couple of students were cheating at an exam and they were caught. They sent the students home, where they told a different story to their parents. Then the parents were angry at the teachers, and the teachers had to make several visits to the parents.
It was plenty stressful for everyone involved, but for me, it worked out very nicely. I had a pretty good headache in the morning, and since I had a free period I went down to the school nurse’s room looking for help.
One of the biggest unseen benefit to my job is the school nurse. You step out of the cold into a nice toasty room with polished wood floors. The nurse worries about you like she was your mother, and gives you all kinds of medicine, advice, even hot tea. I sat and talked with her for a while over tea. In the corner of the room are three big beds that students who are tired/exhausted use during the day. One of the boys from the baseball team was curled up in a bed covered up with a huge comforter. The school nurse offered me a bed, but I had to decline – I’d sleep there the rest of the day and miss my classes.
I came home tonight and cooked up a simple pasta dish with some pasta that we brought back from Italy. It was really good. Right now Kuniko is doing the Wii again, so that’s a good sign. Tomorrow she’s got a hike with her students, but there is snow in the forecast, so it might be cancelled. For her sake, I hope so – she could stay home and rest…
