7 Stitches...

Yesterday afternoon was school spirit day. The school is divided into 4 house teams: Ruth, David, Moses, and Esther. Throughout the year the teams get points and the winner gets a trophy at the end of the year. So yesterday we just had a bunch of games and stuff. A nice change of pace from usual classes. After school we had a mandatory aerobics thing with the Thai staff at 5. So I was waiting for it to start and Craig started rolling hula hoops, and then I had this great idea that it would be fun to try to jump through a rolling hula hoop without knocking it over. I almost didn't knock it over but my feet caught it and then I landed on my jaw. I hit the gym floor pretty good and was happy that I didn't break my jaw but then Emily told me I was bleeding pretty good. Ajarn Sahat said he would take me to the hospital in 15 minutes so I waited around a bit for that. Then we got into some guy's truck and he drove us to the hospital. On the way there we picked up a Thai guy named Tim and then drove down some side streets and dropped him off and waited while he checked his car. Then we drove down a bunch more side streets and finally ended up at the hospital. The nurse and doctor started asking me if I had had something done before but I couldn't figure out what they were saying, then Tim showed up and tried to translate but I couldn't understand what he was saying later. Later I found out that they were asking me if I had had a tetanus shot before. I had already had it but now I've had another one. I ended up getting 7 stitches in my chin. So this was my 6th time in the hospital as a patient, plus the time I visited my roommate in the hospital, so I am starting to learn my way around it. I was a bit disappointed because I was supposed to go out for dinner with a student (Tam, the guy I tutor in Math) and his mom and some other teachers. Oh well, mai pen rai. I got out of the hospital by about 7:30. I knew some people were gonna go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Major Non, but I knew I wouldn't get back in time to go with them so I ended up watching Skeleton Key at The Mall. It was a pretty interesting movie with a sweet ending.