2. Much love to our assistants at Dankook, seriously. Dankook really knows how to pick them and no, I’m not being sarcastic. One of our assistants is named Jason. He’s a Dankook student but he also works in my office. I’m always picking his brain about Korean words and asking him to translate things for me. Today I treated him to lunch and he got all giddy like a little kid when I told him that I wanted to buy him lunch.
3. Jason’s a cool kid. With his pudgy cheeks and talkative nature, he’s quite a friendly guy and I really appreciate how willingly he helps me. He loves reminding me how I’m the only professor that’s ever made him coffee… hehehe. Apparently he’s quite flattered by that.
4. This has been my favourite semester at Dankook University, by far. I’m totally loving all but one of my classes, but even in that particular class, there are some pretty awesome students. Today some of my nursing students told me that they’re going to be sad when our class ends and I felt myself getting a bit choked up. I will really miss many of my students and so I hope a lot of them keep in touch with me.
5. I love running into former students of mine on campus. I occasionally get random emails from former students and so it makes me feel so proud and flattered to be remembered. One of my students from a year ago, Peter, and I text message each other randomly. He just recently got a job and so Monday was his first day at work. It’s been pretty cool to see him go from a student to a working man. All the best to him.
6. Got another one of those “special deliveries” today… newspapers (for Mi Nam) and eggs. On any given day I have any where from 30 to 90 eggs in my fridge but today I ran out… oh the horror… so returning home to find a special delivery waiting for me was quite sweet.
7. Side Salad texted me to tell me that he watched the elevator yesterday. Coming from a guy who said he’d pay the security guard to tell him where I lived, I knew he would. Old Man Sambu would never tell him. Despite all the banana milk and ice cream I buy him or the winks and mornings smiles, he’ll always be faithful to me.
8. Had to skip training tonight on account that I had to finish marking my student’s reports.
9. While searching for something in my desk tonight, I came across an Air Canada envelop. Inside it was my boarding pass stub from when I first came to Korea, February 16th 2005. I was engaged, full of hopes but had only anticipated living in Korea for a year. Four years later and I’m minus the fiance and am still here. I am definitely not the girl I use to be… good.
10. Turns out what I thought was good someone thinks is bad, and so they called me out on it. Got a letter today and it crushed me. I know I’m an opinionated, stubborn girl who is overly sarcastic and silly, foolish with pushing her limits with boxing and training, a girl who lets her pride get in the way of others trying to help, independent to the point that I rather do things by myself, a tad bitter about specifics, and occasionally extra sensitive. Sometimes I lack a kind of strainer, if you will, with what I say but many times I keep things bottled up and close myself off to others. My worst habits are that I bite my nails and I like sticking my finger into the peanut butter container. My occasional body shot pics may be viewed as me being boastful but after tedious hours in the gym I feel I have the right to be proud of my accomplishments. Unlike many people, I’m proud to say that I love my body. I earned the right to say that. My circle of friends and associates range from “back-street workers” to city officials and prosecutors. I’m selfish in that I put myself at top priority in my life. I’m picky with who I call friends and I’m often brutally honest and open to friends to the point that it surprises them. But on the flipside, I’m not a drinker, I don’t do drugs or smoke, and I can’t stand potty mouths. I have extremely high expectations for myself, I prize my good manners and take pride in what I do. I’ve always been a very hardworking and dedicated person. I’m pretty good at staying true to my promises, I am an open book to those I hold dear in my life, and I am reliable. And when I think of all the things I’ve gone through and all the things I could have turned out as, I feel proud to be me.
I never asked you to be proud of me, I just always thought you were…. I'm sorry I was wrong.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why can't they see?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Every one's got an opinion.
-- Jennifer Aniston
4 comments:
Hey sis, it seems that letter hit you pretty hard. You arent selfish at all. In fact, most people wrongly put others before them and never live a full, happy life. The most important in everyones life should be themselves, otherwise we'd all be busy trying (and failing) to make everyone else happy while neglecting ourselves. You need to remember you dont need anyone else, ANYONE. No matter who looks down on you, who yells at you in jealousy, or whoever isnt proud of you, all that matters is that you love yourself.
Much, much, muchhhh love from the usa,
-Bram
<3<3<3
Homegirl,
You are NOT selfish at all!!! Don't EVER let anyone make you think you are. You have always been there for me...when I really needed someone and even when I didn't. You are young and living your life, that does not make you selfish...that makes you independent and a go-getter! Don't ever stop being either of those. Don't ever stop being the person you are! Because I love you the way you are!!!
Homegirl
xoxo
Hi Amy,
I liked what you said about being proud of your accomplishments in your post here. I like your attitudes on things. I feel that way about my liking boxing which isn’t the “norm” I guess for women but I always like the challenge of it and the competition. It’s more popular than ever now though.
I sparred on Tuesday and last night and it went so-so. I did better on Tuesday trying this peek-a-boo sort of style to stay away from Shaun’s jabs or to see them better. Do you know of that style? I did that and tried to keep moving on my feet and did ok for a while and traded some punches with her. She is really good at analyzing and using combinations. My friend kept telling me to punch more because I was just keeping my gloves up for defense after a while. Shaun used more body shots this time and did it to bring my gloves down a little. I didn’t do bad on Tuesday but last night she was going through the peek-a-boo and with mostly her left jab again. Once I’m a little wobbly she mixes in the combinations and that jab. I went five rounds each session. The last two rounds last night she admittedly gave me a good lesson and I hopefully will learn from it. My lip was swollen again after it so I need to block better. You would think with 8 ounce gloves and mouthpieces that wouldn’t happen but it does.
My friend shot clips of this so maybe she can put it on Youtube. Heh heh. Not that I want that.
Beth
Yo B-Man!!!
Thanks for the love from the USA and for backing me up. I hear ya on making our self our own number one. If I don't look after myself than who will?!.. exactly.
Hey Homegirl,
Thanks sweetie! ... as you are for me, always there. Thank you. I'm proud of who I am but it's hard when those closest to you are trying to knock you down.
Hi Beth,
Keep up with the hard training. Fighting in the ring seems to be easier for me than the mental fights people continue to try to drag me into. I hear you about not being the norm... trust me on that! Being a foreign woman in a country that's all about women being very femanine and the weaker sex, many Koreans give me a hard time about my boxing. I don't notice it so much any more but I know a certain someone isn't liking me bragging about my abs... hehehe. He said I was more attractive when I was "softer" :(
Thanks for the update on your sparring. Peek-a-boo, never heard it call that, mind ya, all the boxing technical terms seem to be different here or in Korean... hehehe.
Did you end up putting your clips on YouTube? Do you use YouTube? I have a YouTube channel if you want to check out. Do a search on "FlipsideGirl".. that's me ;)
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