Leaving on a Jet Plane... Tuesday, June 16

By the time you read this I will have left Cheonan and probably will have left Korea too. 

 

Last night, on a sudden impulse, I bought a round way plane ticket to Canada for today.  It came about after the realization of several things.  Right now business is steady but it's slow with getting new members because of MERS.  I don't know how long MERS will play out and continue but for now it poses the perfect opportunity for me to sneak away to Canada to visit friends and family.

 

My choices were either go now or go in August as initally planned but to go in August means I can either hope I get signed for a fight in the next week or so, which is very highly unlikely to happen, or wait till October to get another fight.  Basically, the sooner I go the better it'll be for me to schedule a fight.

 

Traveling to Canada in August means possibly celebrating my birthday with family and friends, attending the big Bere yearly BBQ party, enjoying my parents' anniversary and my mother's passing anniversary with my father.  It also means a hefty price tag for the plane ticket, God knows how much to hire an assistant for the club, and Snickers having to not only manage the club and pups by himself but also deal with all the complications and problems that inevitably happen at the club during monsoon season, like random ceiling leaks and wet dogs.  And the fact that the pups will be placed in their own individuals home in August, well that's whole other issue.  I want to be there to say goodbye to each and everyone of them and to help in the selection of who they go to.  They are my girl Pyen Chi's babies, I love them.

 

I'll be out of Korea for three weeks, long enough to see friends and family but short enough that I won't miss too much in Korea considering the current sitaution and back in time for Snickers' fight.

 

To tell you the truth, as much as the above dates are important to me, one if the attractions with going now was celebrating Canada Day with my dad.  I want to walk to my old elementary school with him and watch the fireworks, joke about the one time a june bug sent him runnig, and then lite our own silly fireworks, like the burning school house, in our backyard.  I want to celebrate a national holiday with him, any holiday with him actually, regardless of how big or small it is.  It's big to me and what holiday screams Canadian more than Canada Day. 

 

I'll try to keep up with my homepage but I can't pinky swear anything.  You might end up having to settle for some ghetto, unedited, lacking-in-format postings but I'll do my best. 

 

Oh and by the way, don't tell my dad I'm coming.  He totally doesn't know and I know he's going to be so happily shocked.  I really don't know how I'll get from the airport to my parent's home an hour away but I also didn't know how I'd ever find the way, time or money to get to Canada but here I am typing to you from the Incheon Korea airport with my boarding pass in hand and the announcer announcing my flight is about to board.  I'll be heading to Hong Kong where I'll then have 12.5 hours to kill and then I'll be getting on a second plane, this plane will take me to Toronto, Canada.

 

See you later.  See you on the flipside of the Flipside!!!