1. Guess who's back in the dating scene... me! I don't know too much about him except for what he's told me on the phone... this is totally a blind date! His name is Tae Gyo and he's an intelligent successful business man who lives in Seoul. He speaks English fairly well, is quite sweet to me on the phone, and he envies Mi Nam... hehehe.
2. On Friday he'll be coming to Cheonan to meet me for coffee. It's going to be a short, sweet, simple coffee date.
3. Well, back to work for me today. Yesterday I interviewed a bunch of students, last Tuesday night I interviewed 33 but today I knew I'd be getting tons of students... and, just as expected, I did.
4. Student interviews started around noon and when straight till about 7pm. No sooner had I stepped out for lunch but then I had to go back. I never did get in lunch. Ki Dong was sweet enough to set up a kind of doctor's office waiting area.... candy and chairs for the waiting students.
5. One-by-one the students sat with me to discuss their marks. Most of them were so nervous and so I couldn't help but giggle. They looked so cute sitting nervously in the "hot chair"... hehehe. Handing out "A's" to various students felt so good! Most students who got "As" were overwhelmed with shock and happiness. Most "A" students gave a little scream followed by a giggle and a huge grin. I felt as if I was the one getting the "A" and so I was so happy too.
6. In one of my classes there's a girl named Seo Kyung. She sat with me for quite some time discussing her mark. She was one point away from getting an "A" but I was convinced something was wrong with the mark. Sure enough, we found a minor error in the marking and so she got her much deserved "A". She was SO happy and so she bought me ice cream to share her happiness. We then sat around and tried to work on an English name for her. I told her that I'd have to think of a special name with a special meaning to it. My first name, Amy, means "beloved" and my middle name, "Michelle", means "gift of God". Now my Korean name, "Su Hyun" means "most clever"... cool.
7. Of course there were a lot of students who I really wanted to give higher grades to but couldn't cause of their marks. They either bombed on the exam, flopped on the homework checks or got low quiz marks. There were a couple of guys in my Thursday class that I really felt deserved higher grades but the just didn't produce the numbers needed. I knew they were a bit disappointed, so was I. Nonetheless, it was a lot of fun telling the students their marks and having one last chance to sit and talk with them. I will miss them.... I will even miss those annoying students from my craft class!!!
8. By 7pm I was exhausted. I had interviewed 115 students and was starving beyond belief. I had told Ki Dong that I wanted to have a pizza party after the interviews... my treat. And so, around 7:30pm we sat down for pizza. I wanted to treat Ki Dong and the others to pizza as a small token of my appreciation for all their continual help, new friendship, and to celebrate a great first semester at Dankook. I now have one semester under my belt as a professor and wow, it feels SOOOOOOOOOOO good!
9. Hannah came out and joined us in the office for pizza. After pizza, we left together. I was so hyper and so excited to have finished my marking and all those interviews and so I started jumping up and down in the parking lot. Some students saw me and I'm sure they thought I was crazy... I didn't care. I felt like a million bucks!
10. Came home super pumped and full of energy. Ended up putting together my video from Sunday and finally updating my homepage. Ended up capping my night off on a frustrating note though after a friend of mine annoyed the heck out of me on msn. He had asked me what I was doing and so I replied, "I'm busy". I was trying to work on my video but the program kept on crashing and so I was too busy and preoccupied to talk. Well, he then continued to ask me random questions and write random comments, none of which I was really paying attention to cause, well, I was busy. I must have wrote like a million times that I was busy and so, after having to deal with his messages popping up on my screen and interrupting me, I finally sent him a note saying that I'm blocking him... and that's exactly what I did.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What part of "I'm busy" don't you understand?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Talk is cheap; the supply exceeds the demand.
-- 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.
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