1. With nothing really on my schedule of things to do today, I lounged around the house and then headed out on the scooter for yet another impromptu driving lesson with Snickers.
2. I can clear a speed of 105 clicks on the scooter, no problem, but asking me to turn is well a big problem.
3. With Snickers on the back and me up front, I took us out into the boonies of Cheonan and boy you should have seen the faces on the drivers as they checked us out on the scooter… hahaha. Snickers’ new nickname for me is “hot bike chick”… hahaha.
4. Stopped by K-Gere’s house and he gave me a very stern look and lecturing to about driving without a license. I had proudly told him that I drove Snickers and I to his house but he was very quick to pop my bubble and slap me on the shoulder.
5. K-Gere made a big batch of his monthly specialty, like he usually does, and he sent us home with an oversized container of it, like he usually does too. Usually he cooks up some kind of soup in massive quantities. This month it was (I’ve forgotten the name already) a soup made from boiling cow bones and a cow’s tail. If it doesn’t thrill you don’t worry, it’s as good as it sounds which doesn’t say much… hahaha. Snickers insists that it’s good for your health, and I’m sure it is, but I’d rather eat the meat off the bones than drink some boiled water that had the bones stewing in.
6. Didn’t quite come close to crashing the scooter (again) but it was a close call on that last corner!!!
7. I’m not one to follow the news, I know that makes me ignorant to current events, but I figure only bad news makes the press and it doesn’t make me a happier person. Having said this though, big news will always find it’s way around the grape vine and despite not preoccupying myself with it, I do hear about what’s going on. But what’s going on with the navy ship Cheonan?! About a month ago the Cheonan ship full of young Korean sailors sank after being blasted and all 46 members aboard died. The finger of blame is being strongly pointed at North Korea. To tell you the truth, initially when I first heard of this story I heard ‘North Korea’ and thought “oh great, yet another random North Korea story”. North Korea always seems to be in the news, there’s a particular fascination around that country, but when I heard my city Cheonan’s name attached to the headline I tapped into what everyone was talking about.
8. My views about North Korea are certainly different now that I’ve been living in Korea for over 5 years but, more significally because, I now have a Korean husband and Korean in-laws. Now news of North Korea does hit home.
9. My dream is to have my Korean family meet my Polish/Austrian family. Snickers is convinced he can do this, he told me so when we were in Bali. He wants to buy a massive cruise ship and have a big party with our family.
10. Decided to rent a movie in the evening and ended up running into one of my favorite high school kiddies. He was standing at the bus stop when he saw me pass by in the car, so he came running up to me. He hasn’t been at boxing for a couple of months now and with his new semi-buzzed hair with two stripes buzzed into the one side, I didn’t recognize him at first.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What hits home for you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
-- Ogden Nash
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.
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