1. After telling my students over and over for the past seven weeks “No student profile = no exam. No exam = automatic fail”, you’d think that they’d get the drift… most did, some didn’t. Today I had to deal with a couple of those “some”, one of which was that particular girl I’ve written about before. I’d really hate to fail her, or any other student for that matter, because of a simple missing piece of paper but it’s a rule I have in place. Take it or leave it but the rule isn’t going anywhere.
2. One student had the nerve to call me on my cell phone and ask if he could change his exam time after I had already given him a super lucky break by letting him come to another classes’ exam. Wow, I thought. The nerve of some of people, seriously. He practically begged me and the conversation got quite annoying when he refused to accept my no. Finally I ended the conversation by saying “If you don’t like my no, that’s OK. Don’t come to the exam, fail the course and then you can argue with the professor who’ll be teaching the course next semester!”
3. I’m not a brute of a teacher, if anything, I think I make it really easy for my students. They all know my email address, cell phone number, I have office hours, I allow them to switch classes as long as they give me a day’s notice, and I’ve even made two homepages for the two different courses I am teaching where they can download my lecture Power Point files and leave questions or comments on a tag board.
4. Yesterday’s staff meeting came as a result of one of my coworkers quitting. I had mentioned his situation briefly in a previous day’s highlights. Anyways, he’s gone and I feel sorry for him but am happy for him too, it’s strange. I know him leaving Korea was a hard decision but I really respect why he’s leaving. He’s leaving because his wife in Canada really needs him by her side right now. His desk is besides mine in the office, well it was. Today I moved my stuff and took over his desk. Now I sit at the back of the office in a big corner desk… by myself :(
5. The yellow sand blowing in from China continues to annoy the heck out of me and I don’t even know why I bother to wear any eye make-up because by the end of the day I’ve rubbed the heck out of my eyes so much, leaving me bare-eyed.
6. Heading over to boxing and training at the club with the windows cranked open definitely didn’t help my situation and so I had several sneezing fits.
7. Junior Mint told me to ask this guy, a doctor whom Junior Mint is always so proud to say he trains. I didn’t really care to talk to Doctor-Dude considering he’s probably still sporting baby teeth and I highly doubt his words could solve my current problem. I needed drugs (meds), an immediate solution from my face-itching, nose-drooling, overly-agitated dry eye-rubbing, and sneeze-fit situation. Anyways, to amuse Junior Mint I asked him for advice. “Eat kimchi” is what he told me. I thought it was a joke but he continued on by asking me, “Do you eat kimchi?” I really wanted to snap back with “Are you really a doctor?” but I stopped myself. I tried to tell him that not only will kimchi add excess bongu (tooting acting) to my list of problems but that I highly doubted pickled radish solves anything. “I want to get rid of my itchy eyes” I told him, “Not my friends”… hahaha.
8. Yesterday I was totally drilled by Milk Dud on pad work and so it was nice to take a bit of a breather and have a bit of a lighter train tonight. I’m happy to write that my foot injury is doing much better and that my “daily beats” with that silly four-foot stick have become weekly beats.
9. Did my usual training but then added on various weight training exercises. I’d love to be able to program myself to wake up early and hit the weights and then hit the boxing club later in the evening but that my friend has proven to be but just a fantasy. I don’t really do mornings and well, when you got a beautiful four-legged little boy (Mi Nam) snoring beside you, it’s so incredibly hard to resist snuggling up to him and zone out again as he snores. So my daily workouts at boxing have become quite lengthy.
10. Drugs saved my life, well, maybe not my life but definitely my sanity. Q showing up with lots of pills for me to pop sure beat Doctor-Dude’s “eat kimchi” advice.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How is kimchi going to solve anything?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
-- Charles Simmons
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.
4 comments:
Whenever I walk into a doc's office here, if the doc looks younger than me I always announce it loudly--"wow, he's so young!"
I've never had anyone NOT embarrassed by this yet. it's awesome.
Hi Mrs. Kim,
Hahaha... ya, it always makes me a bit uncomfortable when there's a super young doc on duty. I use to go to this one doctor for my foot and was actually quite sad when my injury healed up cause he was quite the cutie... lol.
Neti pot....that is the true answer to the yellow dust problems. It will clear out your nose an sinuses. I never thought I would use it but got desperate during pollen season and it has worked WONDERS!
Hi Tracey,
Good stuff, thanks but do they sell that in Korea?
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