A healthy dose of embarassment.

Today I face-planted it on the main stairwell in front of the entire high school where I work.

...twice.

Perhaps this is just another way life is telling me to slow down?

Hmm... no. Too obvious. I think this is just clumsiness.

It's really been quite a while since I've been good old-fashioned embarassed like that. Yet I was surprised to find that I was easily able to laugh it off, and I probably made the day of just about every student in the school (twice).

And, just a few hours before, I was working with my nursing students, discussing an image from "Friends" of Phoebe holding the triplets she just delivered. As she acted as a surrogate mother, you can imagine the vocabulary started to turn a bit difficult. One of the students was having difficulties expressing himself, so he came up to the board to draw out what he had to say. Science has never been my thing, but I knew enough to label his pictures "sperm" and "egg," and lots of awkward arrows and frustrated chalk later, we came up with "fertilize" and "conceive" and even "quadruplets." And then, just as quickly as it came, my life as a science teacher was over.

Walking (carefully) down the hall a bit later to make some copies, I pass a teacher and without even thinking stupidly blurt out, "Hola!" Woops. (my Spanish studies are going well though!) I try to shake it off but then feel inspired, so when I walk by a group of my students, I cheerfully pipe out, "Guten tag!" just to keep them on their toes (seeing as I can't stay on mine).

Tonight: dinner downtown with Alberto and a concert at La Rodia. Hopefully a weekend full of hiking. My back is feeling much better.

Hola. Geez.

Bisous,
Katie