1. Slept in and so Mr. Lee wasn’t impressed with me not showing up for Hanna’s
tutoring. Totally didn’t mean to do it but I had forgotten to set my alarm clock on my cell.
2. Rolled my ankle in gym class and oh ya it felt real great!
3. Told Ariel in my elementary Virgo class that she’s Ariel the mermaid from the Disney movie but she’s missing her bikini top. Totally shocked though when she flashed me her training bra! She was so casual about it too.
4. Informed all my elementary class students that I am leaving SLP come March. My Glory girl Betty got upset and so I felt bad.
5. Sat in the staff room and had an interesting “girl talk” with the two new Korean teachers about Korean people… well, mainly Ryan.
6. Mr. Lee announced in the staff room that he loves me….hmmm. Interesting.
7. Finally celebrated Valentine's Day with Ryan. Celebrated it the "Korean way" with a chocolate cake, chocolates and even a hand written Korean card. It was a simple and cute celebration but I must admit, I think my written Korean needs some more work. I tried though.
8. I came, I saw, I left…. got persuaded by Ryan to show up at the local Westerner’s watering-hole and figure that showing my face there for the hour means I get out of having to do that for another
9. Still am confused as to why so many Korean people are fasinated by Westerners. Personally, I can’t stand them…. well the majority of them that is.
10. Got upset over spilt milk…. and not because it was banana milk but because…. well, never mind.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What are you looking at?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
-- Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
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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