Field trip!!!
Getting paid big bucks to be a paid play-pal with 20 mini Koreans is cool but getting to go on field trips and romp around outside like a kid in a candy store is even cooler. Today we had another field trip so I laced up my silver Adidas rocket shoes and jumped in the private bus with my kids.
...Look at me, saying "my kids" as if they're really my kids, ya right. They're my kids only between 9am and 2pm, according to the punch clock.
Anyways,... so where was I?! Oh yes, our field trip...
Today's destination was a local botanical garden. I'm not much for flowers unless my Korean hottie-of-a-husband is on the giving end, so I wasn't really into checking out a bunch plants scattered around. What I was interested in however was the bush maze. It was pretty cool.
When my co-teachers told the kids to find and catch me in the maze, I was instantly turned into a 10 year old screaming school girl... hahaha. Having 20 kids attacking me was not in my list-to-do so I totally cheated, jumping through the bushes as opposed to using their clearly marked paths... hahaha.
As for working at the academy this afternoon – what felt like such a disappointment compared to the daycare experience for today – I had a rough time. I wasn’t sure if their mothers had injected sugar into their blood or had sent them to class with the mission of being the most rambunctious group of mini she and he devils or what but my first class left me seriously questioning if I was going to go bald on the spot.
I refuse to yell and I refuse to tell them over and over again what they’re doing wrong. I’m trying to take a more pro-active positive approach with them by encouraging positive behavior and not being about pointing out their bad behavior. I want them to be good in class not because I tell them to or scare them with threats about calling their parents like other teachers do but because they want to be good. Today they collectively must have met before class and decided that today they’d all be down right rotten, I was convinced of it.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did I give my dad the grey hair he has?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
-- 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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