1. Erased the program I use to post pictures on this site and experiencing other troubles with my computer...I can't stand technology. I'll have to hold off on the pictures for a bit.
2. Realized I excluded somethings from yesterday's posting...here's what I forgot to tell you:
.... met a girl that's from my neighboring hometown. Jennifer, she's from "the Shawa"!
.... Ironically bars and clubs do NOT have set closing times but instant bank machines close at midnight! If you're at a club they'll stay there till YOU decide to leave (hence the fact I was able to stay till 8:30am) HOWEVER...instant bank machines close at midnight...what's the point of that? I thought the whole purpose of bank machines was CONVENIENCE!!!
3. Slept in till 5:30pm. Would have slept longer but Daewoo caught me opening my eyes and so it was impossible to lay there while my face was being chewed on.
4. At training, I saw first-hand what happens when you mix friendship, Korean culture, and testosterone... grown men exchanging evil eyes, fist-banging the walls and me standing there trying to explain what just happened.
5. Five minutes after the two men (they'll remain nameless in this case) gave their dramatic show, all was back to normal and they were back to training together too.
6. While hanging out with Tasha, her dog had some kind of seizure.... he's a strange little creature that sometimes I'd love to make into a football but I couldn't help but feel sad for him.
7. Saw my first black man in Cheonan. He stood beside his car totally checking us foreign girls out (all 5 of us) and we all realized the rarity of this event and had a good laugh. May not see another black man until...I don't know, umm, I return to Canada?!
8. Sitting outside the local store with the girls a man approached us and mistook us for Russian prostitutes. I told him various things but he got really mad when I called him a "bad boy" (all this being said in Korean of course). I stood up cause I thought he was going to try to attack me and totally sized him up. Nothing became of it though cause I got the store worker to make him leave.
9. After the episode with the drunk Korean man, realized that maybe sizing up for a possible fight wasn't the best of things to do considering I'm in a country where almost every man has a black belt in some kind of martial art! Considering his impaired state however, I'm confident to say I would have won.
10. Je Min from last night sent me my first official Korean only text-message. Got the store worker to translate it.....good stuff!
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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