1. Woke up, swung open the blinds and looked out unto an empty downtown Cheonan... I have entered the twilight zone! Happy Chusuk everyone... is anyone here? Hmm...
2. After a few hours of contemplating whether or not to venture outside in the twilight zone, I finally agreed to meet up with a friend in Songtan. Sorry Greg for the comment but you really are the closest thing I have to a female friend here in Korea...ha, ha, ha!!!
3. Took Greg out to dinner at a Korean restaurant. I ordered bulgogi with extra kimchi and it just about killed him! I find it amazing how someone can live in Korea for so many years and still not be able to stomach the food or use chopsticks. However, Songtan is definitely Little America... it's not Korea!
4. Surprise, surprise... guess who hunted me down... Trouble Boy! Within 20 minutes of arriving in Songtan, I was already spoted by one of his buddies and then his search for me began. He found me, gave me one of his smooth lines and then searched me down at the end of the night again. Please.... give up! You are the drama king!!!
5. I'm definitely pro-Korean baby! Walked into this one club and was greeted by one of Korea's most beautiful men... Choi. Wow! My friends saw the whole thing go down and this lead into a very interesting and comical agruement about why I'd chose a Korean guy over a foreign guy in a heartbeat. Besides the physical attraction to their black hair and super mysterious eyes, it's all about their innocence, the difference in mentality, and their culture. Western men are just too corrupt and modern for me.
6. We left the club for a bit and went to another one that consisted of super hyper, super loud, super big, super pimped-out black Americans. Man can those dudes bust a move... wow! Then some Koreans showed up. Joke is Greg is convinced I should have been born a Korean cause it never fails, where ever I go in Songtan, if there's Koreans there they'll end up talking to me. It's like we're drawn to each other.
7. Oh my gosh... I felt so bad for these Korean girls who were being bothered on the dance floor by probably the world's worst dancers!!! With moves like that you're going to hurt someone!!! Ha, ha, ha. I ended up joking with some of them. They thought my Korean was amusing and, soon enough, we had all the Koreans in my corner. I love you Korea!
8. Went back to Choi's club. Holy houchie mamas! Either these girls don't understand the concept of mirrors or they like looking like cheap bait! I guess that's what separates the girls from the women, well that's what he said. Good answer ... major points there! Ha, ha, ha.
9. Well it finally happened.... I got carded by the Air Force after-hours security officers. They asked me if I was military and I said no. He didn't believe me and so he asked me to prove it. When I was getting out my ID some other officier walked by and yelled out, "She's ok. She's that Canadian gal." What? What do you mean "that Canadian girl"?! I don't come here often enough for anyone here to know me as "that Canadian girl", let alone know me at all! Hmm...
10. Agreed to taste test some of the street vendor's food... I'm hooked!!! I have no idea what is was that I ate but hours later after falling asleep, I was tempted to leave my motel and go get more. Ha, ha, ha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did I underdress or overdress... or did they forget to dress?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
She looked as if she'd been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say when.
-- PG Wodehouse
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.
1 comment:
I know exactly how you feel--always connecting with the Koreans moreso than the foreigners. I used to joke that I was Korean in a previous life and that's why all things Korean felt so comfortable to me.
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