Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, March 24

1. Thank you God… thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for the front row boys in my first period class who never fail to bring excess energy and jokes to class. Their English isn't the greatest but they really try hard fun and it's obvious they're having fun doing so. The rest of the class isn’t so bad actually but they’re my shyest bunch of students this semester. But these couple of guys, I tell ya, they’re awesome. They love the spotlight of the class when I ask them to volunteer and so it’s kind of come assumed that they’ll be my weekly volunteers. Good for them too; they’re bound to score a really sweet grade in my class if they keep this up!!!

2. I apparently scored major points with many of my students when one spotted me on Friday with Buff Boy the Original and that photography student doing a project on me (who’ll now be referred to as Pixel from here on in). Upon entering my classroom he was very quick to tell me that he spotted me with two guys and his initial “Who were they?” questioned turned into random questions, like whether or not I’ve ever dated a Korean guy. I thought the questions were somewhat inappropriate for him to ask but I’m not quite so shy with my students and so I answered them. “I love Korean men [and most Asian men for that matter]... and am currently spoken for by a Korean man” I told them. He gave me a kind of I’m-proud-of-you look… hahaha. Telling Koreans that I date Korean men always scores me mad points. The numerous times this very point has come up in random questions is uncountable. Everyone from students, to taxi drivers, the Kimbab Chunkuk lady, and my former director has raised this issue and they’ve all given me the same seal of approval look that is a mix of shock, pride, and curiosity.

3. Got a sweet surprise today when one of my freshmen students approached to tell me that no one in her class will be showing up for my English lecture because they have a school meeting to attend. I love that class but come on, calling it an early day and only having clocked in two hours today was pretty sweet and who was I to complain?!... hahaha.

4. Took quite a beating at boxing today… quite a public beating, too. A beating that literally left me unable to sit for a good couple of hours afterward. Junior Mint has really been toughing up on me with training and so today he kicked it up a notch by threatening to hit me if I repeatedly make the same mistake, my mistake being me continually dropping my left guard.

5. Out came the stick and smack it went on my butt… oh gosh. It’s definitely an embarrassing and humbling experience to stand there as a 28-year-old female and repeatedly get smacked on the rear with a 4-foot long stick in front of a bunch of middle school and high school boys. I got a lot of pity looks from them but none of them dared to ask me if I was OK for fear of getting beat themselves.

6. Had agreed to meet up with Pixel but wasn’t quite too sure on what we’d be doing but I had cleared my whole evening for him. What started off as small talk turned into a downtown photo shoot. So there I was, being asked to randomly pose while the crowded downtown continued going about its’ way. Many stopped to watch and so I felt rather shy. I am by no means a model, oh gosh no. I’m too short and I eat… I eat all day and I eat a lot (clean eating mind ya). We walked all around downtown and randomly Pixel would run ahead of me and take shoots of me walking.

7. The downtown photo shoot was followed by more questions and more chatting at a coffee shop, Rome On Holiday. Rome on Holiday is use to be my favorite place in Korea, mind ya, it use to be called Roman Holiday before they renovated and changed management. Back then it was this smokey dive/coffee shop that had questionable couches and dirty windows. It’s where I use to meet my Ex before he became my boyfriend… and then my Ex. All day I use to look forward to our flirtatious chats here. I remember I use to always lean forward, to catch a whiff of whether or not he was wearing cologne. I love a great smelling man. Anyways… going a bit off topic here…. I’ve been here twice since our long ago break-up, one time being last week when I came here with Buff Boy the Original and Pixel. It felt different tonight though.

8. Am sure my entire body instantly went through all shades of pink and red when Pixel informed me that he’s watched all my YouTube videos!!! He very well may be reading this exact sentence, too. So as it turns out, Pixel has definitely done his research about me… wow. Found out some things about him, too. Besides the fact that he dresses like he's stepped out of a GQ magazine with his trendy clothes, pierce ears, and his perfectly styled hair, he's only a couple of years younger than me, has finished his military service, loves photography... but he doesn't appear to wear cologne despite me assuming he would.

9. It is with my pleasure and my pride to announce that I survived a three and a half hour interview/photo shoot in Korean!!! Don’t get me wrong though, it was hard and I felt half brain dead and brain-drained after cause of the demand of it on my Korean language skills but it was a lot of fun and I really was happy to have pulled it off regardless of not having someone act as a translator. Pixel was a very sweet, very considerate guy to work with tonight and major props to him for baring the chilly weather and walking me home like a proper gentleman.

10. Despite the interview/photo shoot leaving me feeling quite good, my brain felt too tired to study Korean tonight and so instead, Mi Nam and I snuggled on the couch and listened to some mellow music for the rest of the evening.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you date Korean men?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
-- Oscar Wilde