Last night I went with some a few other missionaries and some of the guards from our apartment building to play some basketball. Most of the guards speak very little english, so it was some great Tagalog time as we divided up into teams and tried to figure out if we were playing man-on-man or zone defense. I think the score was 4-2 when I was guarding one of guards. He was bent over driving in to the basket and as he came up I leaned over to block the shot. His shoulder came up squarely into my glasses, shattering a lens and driving pieces of it into my eyebrow. Like any head wound, it bled like crazy so I spent the next hour and a half warming the bench wit ha handkerchief pressed to my head trying to stop the flow of blood. After we got home at about 11:30, a friend helped clean it up and get some wound closure strips on it. It seems to be healing nicely, but that was definitely not the ending I was expecting to the ball game!
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