Highlights of my Day... Thursday, September 17

1. With all my windows cranked open, a chilly room and a super cozy blanket calling me to stay, I was a no-go for early morning weight training today.

2. Well, after two days off work it was back to work today.

3. I had two writing classes today and this week’s chapter focused on special places near their home. I had them brainstorm and then had them write a short story about their special place. In my efforts to help them with it all, I had brainstormed a series of five places and then wrote a story to share with them. Here’s my short story:

The Secret Teddy Bear

Just down the street from my apartment in Cheonan was a small boxing club, and it was called UP Boxing Club. It was spring of 2009, and a handsome boxer I didn’t know had arrived for training. His name was Kim Young Bin. He was a tall, good-looking guy, but I was afraid and so nervous to talk to him because my friends told me nasty rumors about him. Some people said he was a street fighter, and others said he was in a gang. I felt so uncomfortable training beside him, but I was curious about him. Then one late evening he called me, and he said he wanted to take me out for a walk. I met up with him a couple of days later. After I started to date him, I realized that he was just a big teddy bear, and I felt relieved and happy to meet such a sweet guy. We’ve been a couple ever since.

4. About 70% of my students wrote about their girl/boyfriend. Some wrote about where they first met their significant other, others talked about their first kiss or first date, while some wrote about a special holiday they had with them.

5. The cutest story came from one of my male students who wrote about an argument he had with his girlfriend when they first started dating. He wrote about how his new girlfriend was jealous of his ex and how she repeatedly insisted that he wasn’t over her. In his story he wrote about how he settled the ordeal by having their first kiss on the doorsteps of his ex’s house…. Hahaha, so funny.

6. One student amused me with a story about his first drinking experience. He drank soju in attempt to impress a girl he liked but his friend’s parents spotted him at the bar and so they called his parents. Shortly there after, his parents arrived and his mother literally pulled him out of the bar by his ear.

7. Trained along side Panty Boy Jr. tonight at boxing and he was looking quite under pressure, to say the very least. Tonight marked his last boxing training session before his weigh-in tomorrow and before his game on Saturday, and Junior Mint was definitely putting the pressure on him. I’m use to him being the joker at the club but tonight it was me who was throwing all the jokes into the ring as Panty Boy Jr. was clearly too stressed. He’s lost a lot of weight for this fight but still had a bit to shed and so Junior Mint kept him long and kept him late at boxing.

I'm super glossy from sweating my brains off at boxing.

8. On my way home from boxing I thought I’d dash into Lotte Mart and pick up a treat to sneak into Snickers’ bag for when he goes to weigh-in on Friday. I thought I’d pick up a bag of his favourite chips, these silly chips that are shaped like French fries and supposedly taste like them too but I beg to differ. Anyways, no sooner did I pick up a bag but who should come around the grocery store isle but Snickers. Great, so not only was I not about to pick up a little surprise treat for him but now he thinks I’m both secretly in love with the chips I claimed the other day I hate and am a closet junk food eater… hahaha. Of course I couldn’t tell him what I was really doing and so I told him I checking the calorie count… okay, so I maybe conscious about what I put into my mouth but counting calories while standing dripping head to toe in sweat isn’t exactly what I call fun.

9. No sooner did we arrive back at Guum Ggum but then Junior Mint called me, telling me that I had to come back to the boxing club. Tomorrow he’ll be traveling to KBC in Seoul for Junior Mint’s weigh-in and then out to the fight location and so he needed me to lend my key to whomever would be filling in tomorrow at the club.

10. On the way back to the boxing club I picked up a tuna kimbab. I was starving from training and I hate skipping meals so I thought I’d treat myself. However, Snickers thought he’d treat himself too and so he ate about half of it. He hadn’t eaten a lot but with his game weigh-in being tomorrow, he really shouldn’t have risked not making weigh-in by giving into a bit of temptation. Of course he wouldn’t had eaten it if it weren’t for me, after all it was me who had bought it, and so when we arrived at the club I had him weigh-in. He weighed-in at 65.8kgs, 0.3kgs over, and so I made for the rest of the evening, despite me dying for a glass of water and something else to eat, I resisted the temptation and decided to wait it out till tomorrow. No big deal though, I predict he’ll lose about 0.4kgs between tonight and tomorrow’s weigh-in and so he should be safe.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's the silliest thing you've ever done to lose weight?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.
-- Author Unknown