1. I'm a perfectionist in so many ways and I know it's just as much a weakness of mine as a strength. It was what got me up at 7am today to review my lecture one more time.
2. This semester I've made it my personal goal to be more connected with my students, more interactive, and more there for them. If this is going to be my last year teaching in Korea, I want to go out with a bang. I want to go out on top and leave a lasting impression. The course syllabus I handed out to all my students had my cell phone number on it, which I never give out to students, and I've made a homepage for each of the courses I'm teaching this semester. I made a homepage last year for my class but this semester I've made two and have posted a tagboard on each.
3. Students to use my cell phone number so far: 3.
4. In reading class today we read an article titled "In the Name of Beauty" and it talked about how in the past, many cosmetics and things people did in the name of beauty were dangerous, some even deadly. We read about how the Italians use to put drops of belladonna in their eyes to enlarge their pupils because they regarded larger eyes as more beautiful. Belladonna however is a poisonous plant. So I started a discussion with them, "What dangerous or strange things do we do in the name of beauty?" Plastic surgery and tanning were the two most popular answers. I didn't dare say it but I wanted to say "using whitening cream".
5. Many Koreans have this certain mentality that whiter skin is beautiful. I'd have to say that the biggest compliments I get from Koreans are for my small head and my white skin, which is rather funny to me because while the Koreans complimented me for my white skin, my friends in Canada noted I looked sick and was desperately needing a tan... hahaha. I've always loved the look of a glowing tan and bronzer on the face but I'm cool with them liking my pasty white skin... hahaha. I'd never use a whitening cream though. It's a cream that acts like a bleach and, if used to much or a cheap one is used, it often leaves a ring-around-the-collar look and the skin becomes ashy looking... no thanks! On the flipside however, Koreans may be bleaching their skin and killing their skin pigmentation but we love tanning, something that we do despite knowing that it can lead to skin cancer.
6. I've jumped back on my chicken-overload kick with the discovery of Oriental salad dressing... that stuff is delish!!! I went from eating about 12-15 eggs a day to 4-5 palm sized chicken breasts a day.
7. Well the results are ... Jen Hendershott won Ms. International Fitness 2009 at the Arnold Classic!!! That woman seriously rocks!!!
8. As for Isabelle Turell, she looked completely stunningly ripped and beautiful on stage but didn't make the top 6. I feel terrible for her because, like so many, she's so dedicated and passionate about fitness. However, about three weeks prior to the competition she came down suddenly with pneumonia in her right lung and so, needless to say, this drastically effected her training and thus the show. But she was great and so a huge congrats to her cause while most of us wouldn't even have the balls to compete on that level or would stay sick in bed, she got up on stage and did her thing. Awesome!!!
9. And as for me doing my thing tonight, boxing, I was a no go. "Just let me sleep for one hour" I told Q at 7pm. Woke up after 10pm... yikes!!!
10. Spent what was left of my evening studying Korean and dodging the "gas bombs" Mi Nam insisted on firing out his butt... hahaha. Apparently his little "problem" has returned... nasty!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you do in the name of beauty?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
-- 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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