After my morning Boxfit class I waited around for Coach Brown to show up. He usually has a client that I step into the ring with and do light sparring activities with and then I carry on with my training.
She was a no show today, I think she must have called him and canceled, so he was a no show too. Consequently, my boxing for the morning was a no go.
Ended up going downtown to meet up with my friend but just as I arrived on the Yonge/Bloor subway platform I heard someone yell out for me. "Amy sun-su", they yelled. "Sun-su" means professional athlete in Korean and it had become a very common name for people to refer to me by. Today it was a group of 13 Korean students who called me that. They're here living and studying English in Toronto till summer and apparently today they were all on a group trip downtown to one of the museums. I ended up jumping on the subway with them all and then being asked to pose for various pictures with them. It was super cute, their excitement with recognizing me from the TV show "Neighbour Charles" and how they all wanted to do my boxing pose with me for the picture. They giggled as we spoke Korean together but I got a bit of stink eye from their group leader because they're suppose to be practicing their English, not their native tongue. When my subway station approached I said goodbye and they all bowed to me in true Korean fashion.
I'm a Polish/Austrian girl from Canada but who has been labelled as a kind of Korean celebrity and a Korean athlete. People still ask if I miss "home" or ask how things are "back home" so I'm feeling kind of like an international mutt and internationally homeless.
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