1. No sooner did I fall asleep last night after doing my KBS homework and trying to get in some work at Dankook, but I was up and out of my house for more filming. My morning started off with them filming me exercising in the park. Some of the neighboring people stood by and watched and so that was kind of funny. Q joined us, as did Mi Nam, and so they got in on the action too.
2. Opposing viewpoints arose when they told me they wanted to film me play fighting with Q in the park. "But I have high heels on!" I said. "It's OK" they said. "... and a skirt!" I added. "It's OK" they again said. "... and I feel strange!" I blurted out. "It's OK" they once again added. Finally, I stopped and told them, "It's not OK". I may train with Q and we both may be boxers but I don't usually break out into a shadow boxing session while dressed totally like a girl. Moreover, I really don't care to come across on TV looking like some crazy foreign girl who goes around punching her boyfriend while he's being sweet. I'm not like that. OK, sure, so I may eat, sleep, talk, and breath boxing, doesn't mean I test out my skills on people. I only fight in the ring.
3. Off to Seoul we all went. They wanted to film me with my Korean teacher. My teacher was such a good sport about it. She rocks. Mind ya, the crew made me do a written test for the camera and I didn't do so well. Having had limited sleep, a jam packed weekend of what felt like non-stop filming, and the camera literally inches away from my pencil as I wrote, I felt kind of nervous and so I couldn't focus, nor could I do my best. Regardless though, it was fun filming with my teacher.
4. We had traveled a bit over an hour for a 20 minute film shoot and then I had to travel all the way back home. It was a long weekend, very tiring, and very busy, but when I went to finally say goodbye to the KBS film crew, I felt kind of sad. We had only just met this past week but I had spent the past 3 days with them and had become so comfortable with them. They were really sweet to me and so when we said goodbye, I reached out and hugged the two girls in the group. I hope they'll stay in touch cause despite complaining about being so overly busy, I did really appreciate having this experience and I did have fun.
5. On the bus ride back to Cheonan, the girls and I texted each other and then they called me. I already felt I was starting to miss them. "I've never spoken so much English in Korea!" was what I told Jaz (KBS interpreter). In between shots, her and I had talked a lot (in English). I think I talked more English to her than I have in the last year... OK, maybe not that long, but you get my idea.
6. Yesterday KBS asked me, "What does it feel like to be the first foreign female to ever become a professional boxer in Korea?" Honestly, I had no idea I was the first but today I started thinking about it. Really... I am the first?! That's wicked! I've made it into the Korean history books... how cool is that?! Seriously, it's VERY cool and I feel really overwhelmed, excited, and very honored.
7. When she told me that, the first thing I thought of was my Korean culture professor in Canada. He'd be so proud of me. I had always told him that I would one day live in his home country but him nor I ever imagined my life would become all about Korea.
8. When I arrived back in Cheonan, I arrived to an equally exhausted little boy... Mi Nam. His weekend was busy because of mine, but I think he took it harder than I. He's not use to people coming to my house and so having the KBS crew of 4 in my house and then today filming Mi Nam in the park, well, it was a bit too overwhelming for my four-legged baby. I swung open my house door and there laid Mi Nam, on my shoes. With his eyes totally bloodshot and too tired to even jump up for a kiss, I scoped him up and took him upstairs for a nap with me.
9. Woke up a couple of hours later to get back to reality and down to business with my exam preparations for tomorrow.
10. Finally finished up my exam stuff and so it was early lights out for me.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How are you making history?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Be the change you want to see in the world.
-- 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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