It's a leap year this year and my buddy has landed in Korea -- how cool is that?!
Ok, so maybe it being a leap year isn't very cool but picking up a friend of mine at Incheon Airport was definitely cool. Waking up Home-Alone-late-style wasn't so cool though. We accidently slept through the alarm clock and woke up at 5:30am, with a 7am promise to meet my friend but a two hour drive to conquer in too short of a time. We got ready in military style though and even after quickly walking the dog and feeding both, getting dressed and whatnot, we were able to leave the house at 5:50am. Made it to the airport in a hour and fifteen minutes, yikes;)
So my buddy -- Big Foot -- is now officially here with me in Korea and it's pretty cool. It's obviously great to see him again but it's also great to see him experience Korea from a fresh perspective. I've become too accustomed to life in Korea that sometimes I really don't see how life is so different here, beyond such obvious ones that is.
We've already started teaching him random useful Korean words and have warned him about Korea's third gender -- the Korean ajjuma (older woman)... hahaha. Already he's become the new found apple of Pyen Chi, she can't get enough of him, and Snickers is super excited to introduce him to all different kinds of delish Korean food since Big Foot expressed he likes all foods.
After we picked him up from the airport we introduced Big Foot to Cheonan's traditional snack food on the ride home -- Cheonan walnut cake. Unfortunetly the lady gave him some from right off the cooking machine so he pracitically got third degree burns when he put the whole thing in his mouth. "See" I joked, "You got to watch out for those ajjumas."
We drove him out to Asan to a restaurant K-Gere recommended us to take him and there he had his first official Korean BBQ feast. Later on in the early afternoon we introduced him to some of our favorite Korean street food -- egg bread and "self-kill-chicken". Our street food testing continued on into the wee hours of the day when we decided to take him to Seoul and introduce him to the wonderful late night world in Dongdaemoon and its' midnight shopping.
Boy guy's been up since the crack of dawn and despite a short afternoon nap and doozing off in the car we've managed to keep him up till about three in the morning. It was a long day for him, for all of us, but it was very fun.
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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