2. Last night I talked to Junior Mint about my training schedule and urged him to seriously reconsider having me come in two times and then having to do weight training and jogging. I rather just head into boxing and go hardcore at it once than come in for two mini training sessions and so that’s what we finally agreed upon, although he didn’t really seem a fan of it. So now I’ll be heading into training everyday at 10:30am. My sparring partner will be coming in too and so we’ll be doing “match-boxing” (don’t quote me on that term there). Match-boxing is like shadow boxing but with an opponent and so you don’t really hit your opponent. 3. Training today was good… real good and I was quite pleased. I had gone hardcore with match-boxing for a good 6 rounds after doing 30 minutes of skipping and 8 rounds of shadow boxing. Match-boxing was followed by 6 rounds on the heavy bag, 4 more rounds of shadow boxing, 15 minutes of ab work and push-ups.
4. Got a good chunk of hair ripped out of my head today at practice when a piece of Junior Mint’s boxing pad got caught on my hair elastic. I felt the pull but when he instantly pulled the pad away, we all heard the noise. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!!! Dang. So not only am I scoring mad body bruises from head to toe but now my hair is being pulled out, great.
5. Got somewhat caught up on my Korean language studies homework while Snickers worked away at his boxing club. It was nice to finally have some time to digest all the grammar rules and vocabulary that’s being thrown at me via tutoring and homework.
6. In between trying to do my Korean diary writing and actual workbook homework, I was repeatedly interrupted by the Dankook assistant. The poor girl has been being harassed for the past couple of days by one of my students who I failed. Today that very same student arrived at Dankook with his mother… yes, you read that right… HIS MOTHER!!! His mother insisted the assistant call me up, hand over all his homework, quizzes, exams, and dissect his mark for her. Hmmm… let me think about that.. how about “NO”, or better yet “HELL NO!” The student failed due to his poor attendance and so no quiz mark or what not was going to save him. Moreover, no mother who insists that he was present in all my classes will ever win my attention and so when they texted my phone repeatedly, I didn’t even bother to respond in Korean but instead kept on writing the same message; “I will not change your mark”. I figured my text was short, simple and easy enough for both of them to understand, apparently not however, and so my phone was flooded with numerous messages from them. I refuse to change marks, I’m not a lying teacher, but even if I was going to go in to talk to them about the matter, the fact that the kid showed up with his yelling mother is where I draw the line. I would NEVER think of getting my mother to fight my battles. Has he no pride?! He should be embarrassed. Being a 20-some-year-old university student and running off to cry to my mom and get her to fight your battles is no way to take responsibility for your actions and is not the way to earn the respect of others.
7. Still have no official nickname for a particular coworker of mine whom I occasionally have coffee with but I’m thinking that Kitty Cat is somewhat appropriate… hahaha. Tonight I finally got a chance to meet up with her again at Tom N’ Toms for girl chat time. My high energy bars proved to be yet another big hit… sweet!!!
8. Talk about multi-tasking, while sipping on my tea I saw some older man literally walk by, puke and continue on. He didn’t even stop or even so much skip a step in his walk. It was the most bizarre thing I saw today, for sure!!!
9. Someone once told me that 50% of what you joke about is true and I continually tell this to Snickers because he seems to find joking about “girl-hunting” and whatnot funny. I think he’s more interested in my reaction than anything. He made a joke about “girl-hunting” and so I told him “I don’t need to do any hunting, I’m the hunted”… hahaha. Tonight my comment was all too true when we headed over for weight training and running at La Sya. We usually go early in the morning but today we headed in after 10pm. Word about two pro boxers now training at La Sya apparently hit the social gossip grape line and so upon walking into the gym we were literally swarmed by all the trainers and various members who had lots of questions to ask us. Snickers ate up the attention but I slapped on my baseball cap, turned up my iPod and made my way through the crowd of onlookers. The only question they ended up getting me to answer was “Where are you from?” upon with I responded with, “Cheonan”… hahaha.
10. Originally Snickers had told me to stick to only speaking English at La Sya, hoping that they wouldn’t understand and so thus they’d be discouraged from continually talking to me. So much for that plan because apparently a couple of the trainers speak a bit of English and while I waited for Snickers to finish showering, a couple of the male trainers tried yet again to bombard me with questions. They spoke English and I answered in Korean, later I had a good chuckle at that. “You have a great body!” one noted. “Thanks, tell that to Arnold [aka No-Neck] who called me fat the other day!” I blurted out.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who fights your battles?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
-- Confucius
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