Tomato Soup and Yogurt

So i am on an all liquid diet right now except it is not by choice by circumstances. I was playing in a soccer game yesterday and collided with one of my teammates running at a dead sprint....The left side of my face hit the left side of his head. My nose bleed for 30 minutes and my cheek grew a few more inches....The top row of my teeth hurt so bad that i cannot chew. So this is why i am just drinking everything and not eating any solid food. I have also not been able to get rid of my headache. Just on a side note, i am going to go see a chinese dentist this week because i think the collision knocked one of my fillings loose...on the plus side the tomato soup also has basil in it. Oh and did i fail to mention that this happened in a soccer game.

Pictures from Dad's visit (see below for story of dad's vist

Dad's visit

For those of you who dont know, my dad came to visit me last week. No worries.....even though he is old and well, old...we still had tons of fun. There was just a little scare when we couldnt find him in Beijing and waking up to a phone call from the people who were supposed to pick him up saying "we dont know where you dad is". But no worries, we made it to Kunming. So my dad developed this little food allergy to starch....which includes rice....luckily, rice is not in abundance here in CHINA!!! But this meant that we had to eat at fancy foreign restaurants in which the meals were happily paid for by him. So we ate at the Brazilian Steak house, Wicker basket (Christian Foreign restaurant), Prague Cafe, Salvador's Cafe (which was the first time i have ever eaten breakfast out in kunming), O'Reillys (of course). We saw the Yunnan nationalities villages which is a place down in the southern most part of kunming where they have brought all of the traditional clothing and customs of each village and put them in their own little section in a tourist trap area. The biggest problem was that sometimes we would pass through two to three villages and still thought we were in the same village.....We went to a couple museums. I dont remember what they were, but i bet my dad liked them. He got to see two of the schools that i work at. Just the one on Xinwen road and Jinxing road...he didnt get to see the one on Xinying road...So funny story:
As many of you know, this was not his first time to china and i bet it wont be the last. So i dont know if he was brushing up on his chinese, but he knew a few words...like hello (ni hao), thank you (xiexie) and goodbye (Ziajian). Well, it is customary to say thank you after a person serves you. it is called being polite..which he was doing except he was saying xixi for "thank you" which in the direct mandarin translation can mean "western west", but since we are in Kunming, the dialect here is that if you say "xixi", it means the same as "xiexie"...also in Chongqing you can say "a xie". So people probably thought he was actually from around here until he needed something....then i had to translate. Oh well, at least i got one good story out of it......that i am allowed to share.
Pictures still to come.....

Rugby and RAIN

 This is a picture of my side.

What is the saying… “No Pain, No Game”. Well we had our interclub match on Sunday and as you can see from the pictures…It went really well. I just had a few other bruises and bumps on my body….and I still have all my teeth….I scored three times which I was pretty happy about. I also scored the first try, again. Our team won the match 47-20….we were up 25-0 in the first 20 minutes. So as you can see from he pictures I was stepped on multi times…..I was “walking” (it hurt every time I took a step) to get to my class yesterday and it took me five minutes just to walk down the stairs in my apartment building…I basically was not trying to bend my knee at all because I almost starting crying whenever I would bend it. The bus ride was even better….standing was really hard because the bus drivers do not take into consideration that anyone else is on the bus so they just drive like they are the only person on the bus….i have seen people fall over in the bus and they were hanging onto the bars. That was day one.
Day two my shoulders are killing me. So since we were only playing 9v9. I was put up in the forward position…which meant that was apart of the rucks. That is where people get into groups and try and push the other team away from the ball with their shoulders. I was in the second line of the group. So I had to provide lower body support for our front line with my shoulders….Since we had to do one of these for every penalty…..we did one about every 2 minutes…we are not experienced yet.
It also did rain the entire morning before the rugby match so that was great on two fronts….First, IT RAINED…NOT AS MUCH OF A WATER SHORTAGE ANYMORE, second the field was not rock hard.
So I found us a sponsor for the summer camps. The school that I work at (Odies) is willing to provide sponsorship. I have also found us a couple of volunteers. So we are going to start doing some preparation meetings. I am getting really excited.
On a side note, my dad gets here tomorrow.
The photos: The first pic is from where I got stepped on and you can see the cleat marks in my LEG. The next two pics are of my ankles from where I got cleated also….I don’t know how those happened but they did. The fourth pic from getting tackled really hard. And the final pictures is either from someone trying to tackle me and they went to high and caught their finger nails on the upper part of my nose or I got stepped on and cleated again. The game was on Sunday and it is now Friday and the sores and bruises are still there. The rugby team wants to do one of these matches every month…I don’t know if I will be healed up by the next interclub match.