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…<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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