Amanda Takes Off...

I think I watched Master break his foot last night.

We were playing soccer and he hit the ground so hard his studio martial arts shoes left skid marks that wouldn't lift easily and he needed help getting down the stairs. You could tell he was in some serious pain.

Speaking of, my bruise now reaches all the way down to the heel of my foot. I sort of freaked out when I saw it (only after I sat down for class) and Master explained that it was just blood. I looked at him thinking, This is the worst bruise I've ever had in my life, including the time I slid 100 feet down the side of a hill/small mountain in the Badlands and the time I tripped on a treadmill and scuffed up my knees. I was having problems doing the sprinting/kicking/jumping drills he was having us do. He asked, in Korean, if I was in pain and I had already told him I was. It doesn't hurt when I'm just sitting around, but it hurts when pressure is put on it. As in walking on it and certainly jumping, running, kicking on it. I whined (yes, I admit it) that I hurt in Korean and added in English, "I want my mom."

He said, "Mom?"

I said, "Yes, my mom is a doctor's helper" in Korean because I couldn't remember the word for nurse. He grinned and said, "간호사."

He made me sit down and gave me some mentholatum (맨소래담) lotion. He sent me home an hour early because they were going to freespar for the rest of class. (I guess last night turned him off to Thursday soccer.)

I stopped by the pharmacy to get some more lotion for myself, figuring it wouldn't be a bad thing to keep some around. I greeted the pharmacist and he greeted me back then looked surprised when he actually saw my face. I asked for "main-so-lay-dahm" and he understood me on the first try.

I bought some 토스트 (toast), which is a Korean version of a grilled cheese sandwich, but not nearly as good, and asked for 달니기 juice (dal-li-gi). The woman grinned and said, "딸기?" (Dal-gi?) Ooops, I asked for running juice instead of strawberry juice.

I also managed to secure two CDs without too much hassle and ask where "this" (meaning rubber bands, since I didn't know the word) was in a store. I am still learning very, very basic phrases ("What is this?" "Where is this?" "How many/much..." "Is So-and-So here?") but it makes life so much easier.