1. No classes today and so I had the whole day to make my 2 posters for the English festival. Sounded simple enough right? Wrong. I never did finish that second poster.
2. Recently I've been pondering where I want to work next year. As it stands, I have the option of either changing schools within the Asan Education Board, renewing my contract here at Eumbong, or searching out something new. I love my position here at Eumbong but lately I've been distracted due to a job position that caught my eye. It's a university professor position at a university here in Cheonan.
3. Mrs. Chung thought she'd be a total sweety and so she assigned two helpers to help me make the posters. I think they mistook "help" for "social" though and so it became this big social for these girls. By mid-morning relief came when my other student Lyndia voluntered to help them. I felt bad for her though cause she was doing all the work.
4. There's definitely a sense of tension and stress among us teachers at school due to The Bully and The New Girl. Today the students had a sports day and so I didn't have to deal with The Bully. Instead I sat in my classroom, put my head down and pondered what all us as teachers can really do to resolve this situation. I feel somewhat responsible. Maybe there was something I could have done to stop this or should have seen this developing. I know we all feel like this though.
5. I'm always amused at the reaction of my middle school students when Ryan picks me up from school. They treat him like he's a pop star... the girls shout and the boys all want to stare at him. Tony from my 2-1 class ran up and started yelling "I love you Ms. B" in attempt to get a reaction from Ryan. Trust me Tony, Ryan's too shy to react to that.
6. Admit I've been slacking off with regards to going to the gym. My excuse is justifiable! I'm not officially not allowed to do anything too demanding because of my eye surgery. It's been like that since October 9th and he ordered me to stay low-key till November 9th. However, I did head out to the gym tonight and pumped some iron... ㅋㅋㅋ
7. My intentions were to hit the gym and then come back to work on an essay I'm writing, it's for a university professor position at a local school. So I had high hopes of spending my evening writing. However, I came home and Ryan was sleeping on my floor. I sat beside him to talk to him but ended up putting my head down and that was it for the rest of my night. I was out like a light.
8. Happy 7th year wedding anniversary to Amiee and her husband! Side note here... I met Amiee through her homepage. She's an American beauty who came to Korea as a single teacher, 6 years later she left Korea as a married woman. Her lucky man, a beautiful Korean man.
9. Yaaaaaa... Andi's back! Andi and Mark returned from their Europe trip. I know coming back to reality is rough Andi but I really missed our girl chats and hey, you can always come to Korea. Life is sweeter here on the flipside!
10. Woke up at 2am in pure shock when I realized that it was so late, I was still on the floor and hadn't written anything. I had wasted my whole evening. Ahhhh!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did we see this coming?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Change QuoteThere are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
-- Dr. Denis Waitley
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:
Thank you, Amy! You're a sweetheart!!!
And FWIW, I think you should at least try for the university job. I worked at Chonbuk National University for 4 years when I lived in Korea and I enjoyed teaching in that environment SO much. I'm sure it'd be an adjustment from middle school (and you are obviously fantastic at teaching that age level) but it might be time for a change.
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