Have you ever taken Karate classes? I have when I was 12 for like 6 weeks. My mom got me my gear and paid for two times a week sessions. I had the breast pad thing, the soft "special" helmet too small for my head, and the weird cushiony foot guards. I also got the mouth guard and two uniforms with a white belt. Anyway I was kicking butt and taking names when I was in that class. I was the only girl there besides the "I had to take my sister with me" 4 year old. Can you imagine, 9 tween age boys and 1 fat tween age girl? Let's just say it wasn't easy.
It was a Thursday when my friend's mom picked me up to take me to Shoto Kahn Karate practice. I was 1 yellow strip away from becoming a yellow belt and mother nature decided to tug onto the lining of my uterus. You guessed it, I just got my period and I was unsure of whether or not I should attend practice. "Just double up" I thought to myself, placing one pad in my underwear and another outside my underwear in my pants.
Low and behold when we were at practice, during warm ups, I did a third high kick that sent my "spare" maxipad into the air and next to the sensei. I was so red people thought I was having a heart attack. Sensei quickly diverted the attention away from the pad to stretches on the wall. For what seemed like 5 million hours I lay there on the floor, my peripheral vision on the pad and waited until I could move before I ninjaed it off the floor into my pants and went straight up to the bathroom on the second floor. I stayed there until the end of practice when my friend's mom came to get me. "Are you okay she asked?" I simply opened the door with eyes swollen, nodded, and said "No".
Eventually I gathered enough courage to go downstairs and pack up to leave. Before I left I asked one of the boys still there if he saw anything. He said no he didn't. Then right as I was about to go out the door, the boy screamed out: "So long maxipad girl!". I decided to stop going. Looking back on it, it's hilarious, though I definitely don't want a repeat!
Article by: Rosemary Jasmine Rivera
