1. Regardless of the beautiful but awful mounds of snow outside, today it was spring in Ggum Guum in that Snickers and I did a good spring cleaning. We got down and dirty, cleaning the house from top to bottom. Somehow I got stuck on bathroom duty, I wasn’t too thrilled with that, but Snickers had to deal with picking up all the furniture, so I guess it balanced out.
2. So much for Snickers studying English or helping me with my Korean studies. After we finished cleaning and finished eating lunch, it was lights out for him.
3. Despite technically not have met them yet, I have lost interest in the Cheonan English-Korean Language Exchange Group. My first attempt with catching up with them was a total bust, so I tried again – Snickers idea. I was hesitant but went along with it and tried to arrange a Sunday meet-up, no such luck again. Only one person wanted in on it, a guy.
4. Plan on sticking to my two girls – Cherry Pie and Nurse Goldilocks – for improving my Korean. I asked Cherry Pie if she would be so kind as to correct my Korean diary writing and she said yes. And as for Nurse Goldilocks out in Seoul, she’s a mad text messager, text messaging me a couple of billion times a day, all of which are in Korean.
5. I’ve yet to meet Nurse Goldilocks face-to-face but we text message each other every day, she already calls me ‘Older Sister’, and I think she’s really sweet. She’s an operating nurse at a hospital in Seoul, so she works long hours during the week. The plan is to meet up this weekend in Seoul, do some window shopping and hit a café in Myoung-Dong.
6. Oh my gosh… tell me I didn’t just see that!!! Snickers used my hairspray as air freshener in the bathroom!!!
7. Snickers had promised Mama Kim we’d stop by for dinner, so that’s exactly what we did.
8. I’ve been using “.. but I’m not a Korean girl” somewhat as a crutch to get me out certain sticky situations and discussions. Consequently, I’ve been getting “but this is Korea” as a response to my crutch sentence, but when Mama Kim looked me straight in the eye and said “It’s Korean rule – women do the cooking”, I almost got out of it nearly choking to death on a piece of kimchi. I looked to Snickers to save me. I was drowning in Mama Kim’s invisibly-written-somewhere so-called Korean rules. By now I am use to random people asking me “when are you going to have a baby?” but tonight a new question got thrown at me, “Amy, how many babies are you going to have?” I thought it funny to say “one and a half”… hahahaha.
9. Killed the “Korean rules” conversation by adding my two Polish-Canadian cents. “Isn’t it Korean rule that men make the money?! But in our little family I make more money than him… and I don’t even work!!! “
10. Living in Korea, and now that I am married to a Korean man, is like a double-edge sword.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where are these Korean rules written?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein
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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