1. Day 4 AND last day of exams… or so I thought!!! Complications and miscommunication arose in my last class of the day when 5 of my students arrived at my office for the exam, only to realize that the exam was back in our classroom… literally the other side of campus.
2. I lectured the first of the 5 students, telling her that I wasn’t going to buy her story and was going to give her an automatic zero, like any of my coworkers would do and expect me to do the same. She’s always coming up with these “excuses” as to why she didn’t do her homework, doesn’t come to class… I’ve heard it all from her. Mind ya, when I found out that two of the five students who missed my exam were the two top students in the class, I knew I seriously had to take different action.
3. So…. After nine hours of interviewing with only a 30 minute break at half point, I’m now coming in to work on Monday to interview five students.
4. Walking out of the office today and then leaving campus, after a full semester of classes and work, felt kind of sad. My teaching is a huge part of my life here in Korea, besides it being my main source of income that is. So, when I got off the bus tonight and stepped into downtown, it felt so good to run into a group of my students. I didn’t notice them at first but instead overheard a big crowd of people shouting “Professor Michelle!” I looked over my shoulder and there stood eight of my students yelling and waving.
5. Arriving home after a full day… definitely a full day… made me want to do nothing but be a human vegetable for the next couple of hours. I treated myself to chicken from the Galleria and then chilled out on the couch with Mi Nam.
6. Mi Nam is the main dog around Sambu, apparently. So much for those two ugly ankle-bitting dogs who use to have crazy high courage. After the dry cleaning man (Mi Nam’s friend… hehehe) chased those two dogs down the street the other week, Mi Nam hasn’t had a problem with them since. Tonight those two, however, thought they’d test Mi Nam out and so they quietly snuck up to us. I turned and yelled at them, told Mi Nam to go eat them and so off we went, chasing those two ugly mutts down the street. A neighbouring old lady out watering her plants saw the whole thing go down and had quite a laugh at Mi Nam and I sprinting after the mutts… hehehe.
7. Later in the evening, Q and I met up. He had promised to take me to feast out on tuna (sushi) if he got a bonus from work… today he got that bonus, and so tonight we headed out for a tuna feast.
8. We sat at the main sushi counter, right in front of the sushi master as he sliced and diced our fish and chatted with us. Turns out he’s got quite the interesting story. He too is in an interracial relationship. Last year he got married to a Japanese woman who, when he first met, didn’t speak a word of Korean. Now, he says, they speak in Korean but her Korean is still pretty low and so their conversations are limited to short, simple sentences…. And here I thought Q and I had a hard time sometimes, wow!!!
9. Halfway through the meal, the sushi master congratulated me, "On what?" was my natural question. "On getting married next year" was his response. Oh... I'm getting married next year?! To whom?... hehehe. Gotta love the fact that Q is telling everyone that we're getting married, he has even started calling me "Wife" and yet, he hasn't even popped the question.
10. Oh gosh... discussion took a swerve in the road and went down the "baby talk" road... hmmm. I'm still emotionally scared from my weekend in Hell (aka Pension City). He wants me to go to the doctor soon to get things checked out, like I need a tuning or something. I'm not a car, nor am I really interested in pumping out a baby or two, at least not right now. I still am convinced, given my ongoing obsession with training and boxing, that adoption is the right route for me, that or getting another dog. Hehehe... a dog and a baby, not the same thing?! Ya, right... I guess you haven't met Mi Nam... hehehe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Since when was it an expectation that I'd eventually have a kid?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
-- Bern Williams
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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