This is what I get for learning Korean.

I try to be a healthy person. Anyone from back home knows that I love all natural food, exercise often, and generally love being healthy. I’m very much against loads of chemicals and processing food until it isn’t really food anymore. Korea hasn’t really gotten into the health food movement and it can be difficult to get healthy food here for cheap, in fact I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to get CHEAP health food, it’s always more expensive. I understand this, compromise, and just try my best with what’s around. I’ve been doing pretty good at avoiding loads of chemicals and over processed shit. Lately I have been learning Korean and recently learned how to read it. A lot of things here are written in Konglish which means that if you can sound it out, it sounds like what the English equivalent is. So I’m cooking some pasta and added some salt to the water. When I bought the salt, I just picked the cheapest bag and went with it. I couldn’t read back then, so I didn’t really know what it was…but salt is salt, right? No. Salt is not salt. I am standing in my kitchen over the pot of boiling water sounding out, “mah…suh…ge….SHIT!” I have been putting straight MSG in my food. Wow. Awesome. Let me pump my body full of MORE chemicals I wouldn’t touch if I was in America. Ugh.