Life Update

So, I have been here now for close to a month and a half and i think i have fully adjusted to life in korea. As a matter of fact, i would say my life is closer now to how it was in Canada, and i don't consider that a bad thing or disappointing. When i say that i mean that i'm doing things that are who i am more. i'd say that now i've got a good group of friends that, although they too will take off sooner or later like everyone in this country eventually does, i feel comfortable with them and i only forsee a strengthen of the trust and friendship moving ahead. i've recently joined a gym and have started my workout program again, and not a minute to soon i might add. these past 7 months have been the longest i've gone without heading to a gym at least 4 times a week, and, as a consequence, i'm the heaviest i've ever been. i thought coming to korea would make me turn skin and bones, but that hasn't happened. it's not like i'm gorging myself on terrible food, it's hard to find that. there are 3 different types of restaurants as i can see. the first are places that you really only go to with a large group of people, or at the very least, one other person. dishes are larger in proportion and they cost closer to the range of 15-25 bucks. still, beer is only an astounding 2.50 for half a litre.
the next are the multidudes of small and quiant luncheon type places. you can get almost any korea dish and this is where i eat most of the time. i seem to get hooked on a certain dish for a week before moving on. right now it's ramen noodles, my fav being mandu ramyeon. mandu is basically jsut dumplings but they have lots of different kinds of it. meals here usually cost between 2.50-4. you can't buy beer here, in fact they don't serve and drinks that i'm aware of. i think i will fall in love with kimbap. it's a korean style seeweed wrap with sticky rice and radish as the two staple ingredients. i enjoy sogogi kimbap. i just walk into my favourite little food shop and say chogiyo, hangay sogogi kimbap jusseyo, literally excuse me, one beef kimbap bring me. food is brought fast in almost all korea eateries. like 5 minutes max. this will be something i miss.
the other is your run of the mill fast food joints like mcdonalds and kfc, and although i have ate there a couple of times it's not something i want to make a habit.
the one thing i still want to do is get out of the suwon and seoul area really soon. making a date with valley for the new year to meet half way between suwon and changwon to go snowboarding. it's slightly ironc that i have never done it before despite living in canada for 26 years, and now after coming to korea i find myself more intrigued by the idea. hope i don't break anything important, i can deal with a finger or a toe, just not a leg or an arm.
i'm still guitarless, a fact that bothers me to my core. i'd like to head into seoul to buy one soon, but not too sure i'll have the money for it. i gotta send some home to make those damn payments on my debt so i think i'll buy one as a birthday present to myself.
later