Simple Week Recap... Friday, October 15

Tuesday

Started an English class at the Cheonan Samsung plant and despite Korean students being usually shy and uncomfortable with being put on the spot with English, tonight’s eight students totally killed that misconception.

With a handful of typed-up questions all on individually cut pieces of paper, I went around the table, asked them to each pick a question, and then we discussed our answers.

“If you could have 50kgs of anything but money, what would you pick?” My answer was diamonds, another student answered gold, but the answer that stood out by far came from the smallest and only female student in the class. No sooner was the question read aloud but she then slapped her hands on her chest. She didn’t say anything but we all looked at her, then at each other, and we totally knew what she meant.

“If you could change the world, what would you change?” was another question they were asked. The particular student who had picked this question answered by saying that he’d make himself handsome, claiming that if he was better looking he’d be happy, and if he was happy than those in his life would be happy and the people in those people’s life would also be happier. He claimed it’d have a domino effect. We all had a good laugh about it but I did like his answer. Not too sure if being better looking would really make him happier but I like his underlying idea that changing the world started with changing himself.

Wednesday

Got a good dose of social time this past week with Calla Lilly dropping by Ggum Guum yesterday for girl talk and then today Lady Lollipop came out to Cheonan to visit me. We jumped on Gotti and headed out to boxing together. She was rather shocked to hear she was my first backseat passage on Gotti but was even more shocked to hear that I don’t even have a driver’s license. I guess admitting to this while flying down a downtown street wasn’t exactly the best place to tell her… hahaha. Anyways, she watched as I trained and watched as Junior Mint totally pushed me around the ring and gave me an extra hard time. Boxing was followed by a late night dinner and then a sleepover. Mind ya, in between dinner and crashing for the night, Mi Nam tried to sabotage our sleepover by peeing all over my thick winter blanket. I wasn’t impressed but was happy to find the extra blanket Snickers had stashed in the other room.

Thursday

Last night I had totally forgotten all about checking out my window to see if my late night Show Boy was sitting outside my window, thanks to Lady Lollipop. We were having too much fun chatting the hours away to give any random minute to him. Tonight, however, after Lady Lollipop left and after I had settled in for the evening, my late night Show Boy returned and I took notice. Tonight marked the second time he’s “relieved himself” on my scooter. It had happened on Sunday too but it wasn’t until Monday morning that I discovered his “stuff”. I had raced down the stairwell and out the door because I had early morning tutoring but upon looking up at my scooter I noticed a kind of glaze on the seat. This so-called glaze was none other than his “stuff” splattered on Gotti’s seat. I was ticked; I was disgusted. I was too disgusted and ticked to go tutor.

Friday

Besides Gotti already saving me both a huge whack of time and money on transportation, it’s been getting me a lot of unwanted and unexpected attention and a lot of free service. Today I headed over to the bike shop near my boxing club after one of Gotti’s headlights started acting up. It was a quick fix-up but when I asked the man how much it was, he said that if I promised to come back that it’d be “service” (free)… sweet. Second service this week.

Later in the evening, after boxing, Snickers surprised me with a phone call. He’ll be on land for the next three days while they reload the boat and pick up stuff in town. He’s read all the letters I sent with him in that book I made. We talked a lot about this, that… everything. Telling him about my late night Show Boy was rather uncomfortable and I felt bad for it frustrating him. He told me his job is going good but that he spent the first three days on the sea basically puking his brains out. We talked a lot about this and that… everything… and he must have told me a million times that he misses me like crazy. “I crazy love you squared” was how he ended our conversation.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How would you change the world?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale