1. First day of school and it poured like a mofo. Talk about massive torrential rains and traffic galore! I left the house early but trying to get a cab was almost impossible. I walked for some time trying to get a taxi and would have walked to school had I not thought it so dangerous.
2. Took me close to an hour to get to school! An hour… did you hear me?!.. an hour! May I remind you that it takes 11 minutes by bus to go from my house to my office and 6 minutes by taxi. Traffic was insane and a coach bus breaking down in the middle of the main downtown intersection was just the icing on the cake.
3. This week’s classes are ultra short because students are still organizing their schedule. It’s just a simple meet-and-greet week and so we’re in and then we’re out. Nice and sweet.
4. Only twelve students showed up at my first class and then, for my second class, the room was filled up with a bunch of art students with the usual Monday blah humor... no humor. I tried all the jokes I had.. Konglish, funny Korean slang, strange body language… but nothing. That’s what you get for a first day back at school on a rainy Monday, I suppose.
5. Cooked up a storm tonight and by storm I mean over 2kgs of chicken and 12 sweet potatoes… hehehe. Now, besides my daily egg omelets, I don’t think I’ll have to cook for the rest of the week, sweet.
6. With no one around to share in my excitement of the first day of school, I shared my chicken-supreme dish with Mi Nam.
7. Mi Nam loves walking in the rain and I love watching him walking in the rain; he’s so cute. He does this weird thing where he jumps up, while walking, and shakes his entire body. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen him do. I looks more like a mid-air seizure but it’s hilarious.
8. I am beginning to think that my expectations for a relationship are too high but I always thought it was way worse to settle. Tonight I learned I was wrong. I use to try too hard with relationships but lately I feel like I haven’t been putting forth any energy or effort. I think me being homesick has a big part in this. I just don’t seem motivated with life in Korea, or at least it’s been that way for the past two weeks. Q gets upset when I tell him I am homesick and so my time with him has been very quiet lately. I don’t know what to talk about except for missing my friends in Canada.
9. Q dropped by after boxing and no sooner had he arrived but then he left.
10. Big news of the day, I am unofficially single again. There, I said it, now let's drop the issue. I use the term “unofficially” because I really don’t want to accept it despite it being my decision and I really don’t want to talk about it right now either. I'm sure my parents are real "thrilled" now, knowing that I am 28 and am farther away from settling down and getting married than I have ever been.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What am I doing?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
-- Ivy Baker Priest
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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