Grimacing

If you see me limping around school these few days, it is because I have injured my toe.
An injury happened to the middle toe on my left foot during an unpredictable time:Phys. Ed./ Pendidikan Jasmani. It may sound like a very predictable time that I would get an injury but unfortunately, the very thing I wanted to push to the back of my mind then was of getting an injury.

It was Tuesday morning and I woke up feeling a little drowsy because the night before I had been scheming football in bed. Yes, I was that serious about the game, roll your eyes as you may. Football was a common game that we play during these lessons. The teacher would just let us play until it was time to go. We weren't messing around on that pitch, I guarantee you. We were playing HARD and SERIOUS. What I mean we were taking the end result seriously, not the rules. I don't think we ever had a fair play. I know I shouldn't pick sides, but I think our opponent class (I won't say the name for certain reasons.)were breaking the rules more than us. Our class had been losing pretty most of the time and I wanted to put a stop to that.

As the first period of Phys. Ed. drew nearer by the minute, my friends and I were still thinking ways of doing it. But there was not much a choice. Speed was the thing in this game...and to have speed you have to pass less. SO certain people were jumping on the idea of going on towards the goal alone, "I want solo." C says. I agreed that speed is the thing. SO how to put more speed to the game? On solution: Run bare-footed. WE didn't have gear like football shoes that were light, so another option was to take off our shoes. I have not been doing that for quite some time because it isn't safe. But I didn't know what came over me then to make me take such a risky option, maybe desperation.

And thus I came down to the pitch in P.E. clothes with the rest of the class, seeing that the opposite class (Let's call them O) were already on the pitch. I didn't realize that there were less people from O on the pitch until someone told me because I was debating to take off my shoes. So, I tested the pitch I thought that being barefoot would be O.K. on this field. I took off my shoes and pealed of my socks. I took a couple of "test steps", the grass was cooling.

To fasten things up, I wasn't 2 minutes into the game I felt a sharp pain on my left foot middle toe. I had hit someone's white, rubber and cotton made, solid shoe. instantly, I was limping. I sat down at one side of the pitch, clutching my toe, and started finding out what happened to it. My toe looked slightly bended to one side, or was it already like that before? Well, apparently, I couldn't play anymore, but what I didn't take seriously was the injury. I had been getting quite a number of injuries when I was exercising to take them for granted. I thought this was some minor inury and it would go away in a minute. But it didn't.

I went home, and when my mom heard of it from me, she scolded me because it turned out to be a pretty bad injury. The area around the injury had swelled and it was bluish green. I ended up lying on my bed with an ice bag on my foot for most of the afternoon which meant that I went a little slow with my studies.

Yep, that's the reason I am limping around school recently. The only way I can go faster is to skip or jump on my right leg. No running. :(

Currently, my toe is healing. Thank God there were no broken bones and thank God He taught me a lesson. But I can do gladly with some of your prayers.