1. Strolled into work today for our last day of the semester staff meeting.... guess who else showed up.... my craft students, go figure!!! I showed up with like 5 minutes to boggiemy butt up the stairs to the fifth floor where the meeting was but I had stopped by the office first. I walked in and was shocked to see one of my craft students there. I wasn't impressed. She had been waiting for me and so Sunny was talking to her.
2. Sunny asked me if I could discuss the student's mark with her after the meeting but I came flat out said "no". Considering the fact that her exam was Monday and I went TOTALLY out of my way to have it marked and all the grades ready by the next day, I really thought she had some nerve to come into my office two days late. Apparently she wasn't the only craft student that had come in today to talk to me. And so, on that note, I told her to go home. I think I'm a great professor but getting walked on and being taken on a ride is NOT in my job description. I know I'm a lot more lenient than other professors but this was too much, even for me.
3. The meeting was short and sweet. We discussed various issues and then headed back down to the office for lunch. My director is a Korean man in love with Chinese food and so, yet again, we feasted out on Chinese food. Two delivery men came carrying mounds of food for us. It was awesome!
4. It seems like I'm the only professor here that's not leaving the country for their summer plans, that's cool. I can't remember the last summer vacation when I was just able to do nothing but relax. Last summer I had two months off but spent that time working at English camps. The year prior to that, I worked at a hagwan and so I only had 1 week off and then before that, I was a university student working to support myself and so I really had no time off.
5. Sad news... Ki Dong won't be with our staff next semester and so this was our last official time together as one big group. Someone had the "brilliant" idea to crack open the sparkling wine that had been sitting in the fridge supposedly for the past two years. It smelt like a mix between nail polish removal, cough syrup and apples. Held my breath, toasted Ki Dong and my co-workers, and then hoped for the best as I downed a bit of it.... hehehe.
6. Today marks the first official day of my summer holidays and so I went home and cracked open my much anticipated new Korean writing textbook.... yes, you can say it, I'm such a geek.... hehehe. I've been waiting three weeks to be able to start this book but I was too busy and I held back cause I was waiting for summer. I'm predicting that this summer is going to be awesome, for sure!!!
7. You know you're a SUPER GEEK when you get excited about studying and lose yourself in your studies for about 5 hours... yup, that was me tonight! There's 20 chapters in my new self-study Korean textbook. Each chapter is about 14-16 pages and, according to the textbook author, he says each chapter should take you about 5 hours. Having said this, my plan is to do 4 chapters a week and thus complete the textbook in 5 weeks.
8. Meet up with Hannah today and headed off to the gym. Ahhhhh.... I missed the gym so much and so I got so excited and hyper putting on my sweats and getting ready. I had anticipated training Hannah, she's new to training, and so today, before we headed off to the gym, I sat down for about 2 hours and planned out a wicked work-out plan, with tips on diet, work-out gear, training schedule and an exercise routine plan. No sooner had we arrived at the gym and put on our runners, then Newbie came and TOTALLY took over training Hannah. Ok.... hmmm..... ya, don't know what to say here... whatever.
9. Wow... looks like Buff Boy has definitely been hitting the weights hard since I last was here. He was wearing this old-skool work-out shirt that only added attention to his bulging chest... hehehe. I joked around with him and said he's making most of the women jealous cause of the fact that his chest is bigger than theirs.... hehehe. Hannah thinks Buff Boy is too big but I think differently.... Buff Boy won #1st prize in my mind tonight for best body in Korea.... wow.
10. Stayed up too late studying Korean. Finished off the first two chapters... awesome.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
When is big too big?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is opened.
-- Author Unknown
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.
2 comments:
In response to the Question Of The Day-there is no TOO big. in fact, size itself doesnt matter. much as "its not the quantity its the quality" same goes for size "its not the size, its the performence". For instance, i rather have an awsome small sports car than a monstor truck id never use.
-bRAM
Hey Bram,
yes... that's true. Mind ya, I prefer the MONSTER truck ANY day over a small sports car!!!
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