This weekend, I broke my ring finger when I was playing football on the beach. I was the wide-receiver and was determined to catch one of the passes! The ball was thrown a little short and tipped in the air by another player close to me, and I had little response time to move my hand. So, the football hit the very tip of my finger and it caused it to jam (I thought it was a jam at that time!) But, my finger started to get HUGE and turn blue and black. I decided to wait until Monday to go to the doctor.
Let me just take a minute to say that I am in Australia and I feel like I should hurt my finger doing something else other than playing American Football. I should have broken it doing some extreme sport, playing cricket (just kidding- haha), having some type of poisonous animal bite my hand. Or, an even better option would be to not get injured in the first place! :)
This week and next week are exams at school. Since my marketing exam is mostly essay and short answer questions, I talked with student services at ICMS about how. . .uhhhh. . . .I couldn't write very fast! So yesterday I took my marketing exam in a secluded room at a different time than everyone else. And here is the cool part- I was given an additional 30 minutes to finish it (which I really needed!)
Three things learned after my finger broke:
1. It stinks to have a broken finger!
2. I was given a new nickname (in addition to Bama, bam-bam, Alabamie): Tiny Tim 3. There are test benefits for having a broken finger. If you have the option of when to break your finger, do it during exam time because you will get extra time on a long exam!
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