1. Old Man Sambu (one of the workers for my apartment building) told me today that he cries when I forget to say hi to him in the morning... hehehe.
2. Monday morning first period students continue to drive me bonkers. They never talk, well all but Kai. The look on my student Kai’s face today was priceless. He’s one of my top students and pretty much the only one that participates in his class. I had told him once, “Don’t leave me alone with them! I need you in class.” And so, today, when he showed up late, he must have said “I’m sorry” a dozen times. He knew I was dying in class without him… hehehe.
3. Today was the due date for my assigned take-home assignment and wow, I must say, this semester’s entries are looking pretty interesting… hehehe. I’m always telling them that I really am not so concerned with their English level as much as I am with them just trying to communicate, whether that be with body language, Konglish, English, or broken English. I really tried to push the idea of creativity and well, MANY of them definitely took me up on that… AWESOME!!!
4. For the most part, students did surveys about dating, which is always a funny topic talking to Korean students about. While many students questioned their friends about who should pay for the date, where to go and what do you look for in a boy/girlfriend, one of my students took it a step farther and titled his “Men’s Secrets”… hehehe. No sooner had he handed it to me but I was already glancing through the pages.
5. I fell out of a bus today. Well, it was more of like a “squished out” or “squeezed out”, as opposed to a “fell out”, but regardless, it sure beat the “dragged out” that it almost became.
6. It was one of those curl-up-and-want-to-die moments in which you swore the whole world was watching, like with some giant satellite or something. And I spent just as much time inspecting my precious fox-fur jacket as the doctor did inspecting my body. After a couple of x-rays, random health tests, and a whole whack of questions, he turned to me and said, “Don’t worry. Your IQ is still same”… “Oh.. still high, cool” I joked.
7. Was sent me home with a prescription and, knowing prescriptions in Korea, it probably will consist of a couple dozen multi-coloured pills followed by a few follow-up appointments and another needle in the butt. No thanks. The only pills I pop into this body of mine are ones that read “vitamin A” or “vitamin C” on them and so the only use I had for my prescription paper was to use it to wrap my stale gum in.
8. I was ordered to stay home and relax but with it only being 3pm, I anticipated boredom and knew I’d have to explain this all to Junior Mint. And so, most of my evening was spent on my back, lying on the floor, as I could feel my body slowly, but surely, stiffening up.
9. The other part of my evening was spent trying to convince Junior Mint to leave the police out of this. He was really ticked off about what had happened to me but I told him to drop it. I have to take the bus almost everyday and so the last thing I need is some bus driver giving me a hard time because I ratted him out. I’m not a rat and I’ve never been one to turn to police.
10. I made the mistake by making a joke and telling him that if I was going to call anyone for help it’d be Gangster Oppa. An hour or so past and so I thought the issue had been dropped. I was lying on the floor, simply minding my business, when all of a sudden my cell started ringing. It was Gangster Oppa. Some how he had heard about today’s “situation” and was all concerned. At first I had no idea that he knew though. Our conversation started off with him asking me, “Amy, what do you want to do?”, in which I laughed and blurted out, “I want to go to Disney Land!” He didn’t like my joke and I knew by his tone that he was definitely not in the mood for it. He mentioned something about wanting to meet with me to talk about today and that’s when I clued in.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do people still trust police nowadays?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
-- 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:
ok...I know you hate all us anonymous peeps, but what happened on the bus? Somebody pushed you? I'm confused. You got in a fight? C'mon, spill the details woman.
Hey Anonymous,
Hehehe... no I don't "hate" ALL anonymous peeps, just dislike some of them but it's all good.
As for the bus, I guess the driver was behind schedule and so he got grumpy when I pressed the button for him to stop at the next bus stop. The door slide open and no sooner had I stepped down and started to step out, he pressed for the door to close and started to drive away, causing my shoe to get stuck in the door step and my ankle to be pinched in the sliding door. I ended up doing a kind of "super woman" fly to the ground and crashed hard. Scary thought though is that I was so close from being dragged off by the bus.
I yelled out at the driver but he didn't stop nor slow down. He picked up the pace and drove off. I was so tempted to throw my shoe at his stupid bus but my shoe is probably worth more than what cents he has knocking around in his melon.
So, I've been in a lot of pain the past two days now. My shoulder feels a bit messed up and my coach wants me to pursue this legally.
I just want the matter dropped but it's hard to forget about it when it means I have to take a couple of days off of boxing.
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