1. Last week I didn’t wear socks to Eumbong Elementary class because well, I don’t like them. So, this week Mr. Funny-Pants Teacher brought me socks…. couple socks. Ha, ha, ha.
2. I don’t know what the heck they tried to pass off to me at lunch as chicken but it didn’t even resemble an animal. It looked like some kind of skin twisted around some huge bone. Ya, like I’m touching that!!!
3. My VP text messaged the parents in my after school adult class and apparently is quite the joker. He called himself “playboy” in his messages.
4. Mr Playboy VP tried to convince me to ditch the work and play ping-pong…. did I ever tell you I love my job?!!! And oh ya,…. he treated us all to ice cream! Cool!
5. Ventured to Songtan where I met up with my buddy Trin… my BIG buddy. He bartends at a local club when he’s not on military time. He tried hard to make me feel comfortable but being the only non-military personnel and the only white chic made me kind of stand out like a sore thumb…. to say the least.
6. Grabbed a cab and off me, Trin and three of Trin’s boys headed to Seoul. I was rather surprised that we arrived there alive after Trin’s boy kept on ticking off the taxi driver. Dude… you’re NOT suppose to touch his meter. I had to laugh though cause hearing the taxi driver abuse the phrase “shut up” was just too funny. He used it for every response possible!
7. Checked out a club downtown Seoul, Gangnam area. It’s funny but I felt much more comfortable surrounded by a crowd of Koreans.
8. Turns out a lot of Korean men at this club love Western women…. I was a huge hit. It was pretty funny and I met a lot of people but two guys literally ended up fighting over me.
9. Got looked after by these four Korean dudes (Jung and his friends) who were loving the fact that I was trying hard to speak Korean.
10. Pulled an all-nighter at the club because well, we had too. Where were we going to go? All trains had stopped for the night.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What did I just get myself into?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Shut up!
-- popular saying of tonight's Korean taxi driver
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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