The food (it's good).

I've mentioned before how the school provides our lunch and dinners M-Th (and lunch on Friday). The meals are really well balanced, that's part of the art behind Korean food.. green balances red, etc.. So at every meal there are vegetables, kimchi, rice, and then some protein based dish like tofu or actual meat. They also give us a soup of various kinds with almost every meal.

I feel really healthy. My body processes the food really easily, and so far it has been very uncommon to feel intestinal/stomach discomfort. Even something as trivial as gas is rare. A large factor for this is how little sugar or milk I've been consuming. I drink almost no sodas, and rarely have milk (some in coffee I guess). My diet has been 90% what I mentioned above. Bread is uncommon as well, and the kind of bread that is easy to come-by here is pretty scant on the nutritional value.

Coupled with good food is the the additional exercise I've been getting. Lots of walking, some running while playing with the students, as well as occasional arm wrestling and general play. All that's been more activity than I'd been getting the previous few months before getting here. Feels good! On Tuesday night I may start up another activity which would just be the perfect capstone.

Parkour update: there's a very limited to non-existent parkour scene in Seoul. I feel like even if I found a group, they'd pretty much be martial artists, though that's probably an asian bias I carry. Since Tae-Kwon-Do is practically a national sport, and everyone does that in school, as well as mandatory military service that demands martial arts training... I think I'd be outdone by even the most casual freerunner over here. There is something similar to parkour here and it's called Yamakasi. It's more tricky (full of tricks) and showy, but still only a fraction more well-known, which is to say almost nonexistent. That's ok for now. I'll try to do my part. ^^