Monday always kicks my butt -- laps at the pool and team training at Clancy's. I'm always left feeling used and abused by the time midnight rolls around and I almost never am up to even see the clock strike twelve. Today I also had an important business meeting to tend to, a meeting with my casting agent and I had to meet up with my roommate downtown because she had forgotten her key.
At training tonight I was approached by a young female boxer who had heard of me. And, as it turns out, she knows of me through her coach in Korea, my friend Joe. She's a Chinese girl who had lived in Korea for two years and had trained at my friend's boxing club in Seoul. Joe, like me, is also a foreign boxer, and also like me he too had opened up a boxing club in Korea. It was so wild training alongside her. I know to others it was just a cool turn of events but for me it was really awesome. I love being here in Toronto, Canada but I miss Korea every single day. I think my dad is the only one who really gets it to, how I can be "back home" and yet feel so alone and disconnected here. He tells me all the time that he worries for me and I respond by telling him I don't feel so alone here now that Balboa has joined me. I do miss Korea; it doesn't mean that I want to be back there though. But anyways, training alongside that girl today was like having a little piece of Korea with me. I miss Korea every single day but so often I feel that Korea finds its way to me, its way into my new found life here in Canada. Today Korea found me via a Chinese boxer who once trained with my Canadian friend out in Seoul, South Korea, and that was pretty awesome. It's not such a big world after all and today Korea visited me here in Canada.
At training tonight I was approached by a young female boxer who had heard of me. And, as it turns out, she knows of me through her coach in Korea, my friend Joe. She's a Chinese girl who had lived in Korea for two years and had trained at my friend's boxing club in Seoul. Joe, like me, is also a foreign boxer, and also like me he too had opened up a boxing club in Korea. It was so wild training alongside her. I know to others it was just a cool turn of events but for me it was really awesome. I love being here in Toronto, Canada but I miss Korea every single day. I think my dad is the only one who really gets it to, how I can be "back home" and yet feel so alone and disconnected here. He tells me all the time that he worries for me and I respond by telling him I don't feel so alone here now that Balboa has joined me. I do miss Korea; it doesn't mean that I want to be back there though. But anyways, training alongside that girl today was like having a little piece of Korea with me. I miss Korea every single day but so often I feel that Korea finds its way to me, its way into my new found life here in Canada. Today Korea found me via a Chinese boxer who once trained with my Canadian friend out in Seoul, South Korea, and that was pretty awesome. It's not such a big world after all and today Korea visited me here in Canada.
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