1. Honestly, today wasn’t a very interesting day at school or after school for that matter.
2. I should have known that being back to school also meant back to student beatings. I’m still not cool with the way some of my co-workers deal with the more difficult students.
3. Three of my level one boys thought they’d smart mouth me and then interrupt the whole class to laugh at it. Jokes on them though. I kicked them out class but then they started slapping each other around. They thought being kicked out was fun until I made them kneel with their arms up in the air and then forgot about them. Didn’t mean to forget about them but it kind of served them right.
4. Apparently someone has come up with this “brilliant” idea to divide the level 2 students into two classes according their English level. So far it sounds great right?… wrong… turns out it means the lower level students will not be taught by me. Instead, they’ll be taught by a Korean teacher. Now I’ve got plenty to say on this argument but I’ll stop myself and say, isn’t the whole point of dishing out mad cash for a foreign teacher so that students can experience first hand another culture and language. I don’t think they’ll learn a lot from me if their interaction with me is limited to seeing me across the cafeteria at lunch.
5. Yesterday was my student Ryan’s birthday (class 2-2 boy) but I didn’t see him yesterday cause I was only at school for two hours. I had bought him a soccer ball (he’s obsessed with soccer) and so today I hid it and then gave him a note on how to find it.
6. Turns out I was the only one who gave him a birthday present and so I felt awful for him. He was so grateful for my present and so the rest of the evening I had to deal with his random numerous text messages.
7. Ryan came to pick me up from school and then was bombarded by my co-workers who were eager to meet him. Ha, ha, ha.
8. Had silly girl talk with my little Sue and had to laugh at some of the silly things she asked. Tonight she curiously asked me if Ryan was the only boy I have kissed. I didn’t know what to say and so I just giggled.
9. Stood waiting with Sue and her mom for the elevator door to open. When it opened, out walked this trendy-looking older man who I was sure had the wrong floor cause Sue is the only one on this floor. Turned out it was her father! I thought hot looking doctors were only on soap operas!
10. Proved I could be more stubborn than Ryan despite the thought that it was once impossible to do. At the restaurant I was venting to him about a certain issue and then was annoyed when he didn’t listen but snapped at me. I wasn’t impressed and so I made him eat the two orders of the meat. He left the restaurant stuffed and I left starving!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your point?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything.
-- Author Unknown
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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