Big Foot is gone, sadly it’s true.
We drove him to Incheon Airport today, said our goodbyes, hugged and then he left. Destination Canada for him, destination Cheonan for us. On the way back to Cheonan, Snickers and I noted that the car seemed too quiet without him and we reminisced about the two weeks we had just spent with him. We already miss him so much but I’m sure his mom – my friend – will be happy when he unexpectedly shows up at home.
Upon arriving back at Ggum Guum, I hung up my purse and greeted Pyen Chi and Balboa. Snickers sat down on the mattress we had brought into the house for Big Foot to sleep in. He looked rather sad. I think it’ll take a bit of time to get use to having a quiet house again now that Big Foot is gone.
It was awesome having my friend stay with us here and I think it’s a shame more of my friends from Canada have never visited, if not to visit me but to see Asia. Many of my friends did the whole get-up-and-go backpacking in Europe before university, some after university, but I never was one for Europe. Travelling to overpriced countries that speak English never interested me. Asia is where it’s at. Asia is amazing. Sure many Asian countries do speak English but there’s a certain exoticness to Asian countries that interest me.
Living here in Korea, I’ve got so many beautiful countries at my doorstep and it really is a shame I’ve only traveled to a few of them – Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. I’d love to slap on more stamps on my passport, particularly from Malaysia and Singapore. I’ve been contemplating spending my summer training, perhaps in the Philippines. I love, love, LOVE the Philippines. Snickers thinks it’d be a great idea but now I’ve got to put the idea into motion and research the possibilities. One of my friends, who lives in Seoul, travels to Thailand every vacation where she then basically lives at a Mauy Thai kickboxing club. She eats, sleeps, breaths and trains Mauy Thai for the 1-2 months she is there. Though I’m not particularly interested in kickboxing I’d love to do similar training but for boxing.
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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