Hot night, cold beer
Published by Quin July 23rd, 2008Today one of my students attacked me. He’s only six years old, so he couldn’t do any real damage, though he did leave a couple of satisfactorily bloody scratches on the side of my face. Funnily enough, I remember thinking earlier in the lesson, “That kid needs to cut his nails.”
I really wish I could share more details. The incident gave me some thoughts about working with children that I wish I could get out in the open. But I’ve signed a confidentiality agreement with my company, I’m not using a pseudonym here, and let’s put it this way: my boss is on Facebook, and he’s not afraid to use it.
After spending some extra time at work to deal with the aftershocks from the incident, I made it home. That’s when an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hit northern Japan. I was 350 miles south when it came, and it still felt pretty big to me.
Anybody else have an interesting day?
But…that child is the future!
WOW!!! What a day!! I’ll stop complaining about mine now!! Hope yours gets BETTER!!
Really, not that bad a day, all things considered. I didn’t feel particularly awful about the school incident, because I thought I handled it the best I possibly could have in the particular circumstances; I’m just worried about the kid. As for the quake, it looks like the damage it caused was pretty minimal, considering its magnitude– no deaths have been reported at all yet.
Still, I needed that beer.