Mom said I am just big boned

People are often writing me asking questions about Korea “ wow it must be very different “ well for sure you can go to some pretty impressive historical sites but when it comes down to brass tack the more I try and find the differences the more I find the similarities people go to work the spend too much on there kids. they often eat or drink too much or not enough. You fight with you wife, boy friend or family members. Until they are on the other side of the world. When you’re up in the mix of every day life it is sometimes hard to get perspective. I think that at this time in this place I am ment to be here I have no responsibility to any thing but my self which can be a blessing and curse. I don’t wake up until 11 am unless I want to which is great if you want to party all the time but when you spend that much time drinking soju and beer It kind of leaves you felling hollow in side . I think I can do some thing more productive with my time, I have been thinking of doing some volunteer work like teaching prison inmates English or giving up some time in an orphanage. Korea has a very high standard of living but on the other hand they have crushing poverty old people work until they are dead no retirement here the country has only been around for forty years. People some times give up there kids for finical reason and keeping up with the Jones is a national pass time where parents work 2-3 job so they can keep their kids in private schools for English, science ,math ,and music . These schools are very expensive and parents do not see their kids very much at all because every one is at school or work. in addition Korea national pass time is cosmetic surgery, oh didn’t you know that the often get their eye lids operated on to give them a more western appearance .laser of those freckles, straighten out those teeth I have a little girl in one of my classes she is missing her four front teeth she is only 7 years old and her parents have shelled out to put braces on the rest of her teeth. So she has only 4 braces on her teeth! But on the other hand she is stupid cute. Once again society decides the norm’s for the people living here much like in the U.S. so if you ask me how different it is not really people are basically the same all over the world ,my mother upon hearing this said she felt that the world really was smaller than we let our self believe some times. Maybe the old girl really dose knows everything, then again she still tells me I am handsome.