1. Today the principle took all the students who had earned enough sticker points out for Chinese noodles, so you know what that meant… a cafeteria full of those who didn’t earn enough stickers… yup,… the difficult kids!
2. I have apparently started a piggy bank courtesy of my students. I’ve been giving birthday gifts to select students who have really inspired me, encouraged me, or touched my heart and one of those students was a boy named Bryden. I know this habit I’ve picked up could get me in trouble with the other students but I’ve only given out a few gifts and it was very subtle. Birthdays away from home flat-out suck and so it’s nice to brighten someone else’s birthday. SO.. the point of this story is, today Bryden gave me a piggy-bank and I almost cried cause of repetitive “I’m sorry for missing your birthday.”
3. Us teachers decided to cut school early and so at 2:30pm we sent all the students home. Us teachers headed out for an evening of bowling and sushi to celebrate our principle’s promotion to Asan Education supervisor. We’re all really sad to see him leave but are proud of him.
4. It’s funny how everyone at work seems to comment about me working out, as if I’m some kind of freak cause I’m a girl with muscle. However, when it came to picking people for the bowling teams, they ended up arguing as to who’d win me for their team.
5. In between laughing at my principle’s “victory jumping” whenever he got a strike or spare, laughing at Mrs. Chung’s gutter balls, giggling everything my Korean teacher whipped out on the lane, me yelling at the bowling ball in hopes it’s shimmy over a bit, and repeated team high-fives… bowling was WAY too much fun!
6. After an incrediably humorous time at bowling, we ventured over to a posh sushi restaurant where we were bombarded with loads and loads of fun. The sushi was awesome but I wasn’t daring enough to taste the octopus as it wiggles across the plate. I sat there in total curiousity. It was all chopped up but still alive. Wild.
7. Realized just how humble my principle is when he made me a meat wrap and literally fed it to me. I’m really going to miss him. I sat there so stumped with what to say. He doesn’t understand English and my Korean is choppy.
8. Turns out Mr. Social Science Teacher’s favorite saying for the night was “one shot” and so I spent a good part of the meal trying to dodge him. He’s hilarious and so everytime I said something in Korean he’d try hard to answer in English. He totally killed the English language though…ha, ha, ha.
9. Mrs. Chung taught me how to say “run away” in Korean and so that turned out to be pretty affective with dealing with Mr. Social Science Teacher, not too mention it greatly entertained the other staff.
10. As always, the men tend to get rowdy and loud during these kind of functions and so tonight was definitely no exception. Apparently after I left, one teacher and the vice principle ended up getting into a heated argument. Rumor has it one of them wanted to fight, but then again… this is only my struggling attempt to translate the message in Korea. Drama!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where do you draw the line?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine.
-- Polish Proverb
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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