Thanks for the imput.  I'm doing much better this month.  I think I made my last atm withdrawl of 150,000 won ($125.00) USD last for at least a week.  I was going to attempt to make 20,000 won (16.74) last thru the weekend as my freezer is full of tortillas, I'm stocked up on nonperishable canned beans, black beans, chile beans, kidney beans...big part of my diet back in New Mexico.  I can't buy any of these things within walking distance so I went a little crazy stocking up recently stocking up for nuclear winter at Home Plus.  My plan would have denied me of fresh produce.  And a jug of cheap Carlo Rossi wine.  

At this point, I can say I've "seen" Korea.  At first, I felt compelled to see as much as I could in case I wanted or needed to run away in the middle of the night.  The DMZ is still on my list and I'm sure I'll do a little more traveling before I'm done here.  When I'm travelling I'm living and spending for the moment.  Now I'm thinking about other travel agendas (and responsibilities, I suppose ) after my Korea fiasco is tied up.  You can stay at Buddhist temples for free.  They're gorgeous but haven't figured that out yet.  There are several in the mountains surrounding my community.... 

its not a stupid article it's important. Day to day living, real life setbacks and an analysis of common human behaviors is so crucial to educating others. Even if they can't prevent it, at least they'll have more of an awareness of the mental traps people fall in when they cannot fully assimilate and thus find alternatives. And, honesty never fails to properly inform, so for this article I am grateful. Money flows through my hands like water also. And Korea is my next big adventure, if I am accepted.

thank you much for fixing that.  as for the typos, i kept getting an 'internal server error' when i went to fix them. 

as for disposable clothes, if it makes me seem less wasteful, i don't mean single use clothing.  disposable clothing is usually fairly cute but by 10 washes will be on the way to self destruction.  one time i bought a two piece part dress/part shirt thing that i wore over skinny jeans.  the mesh part of the dress immediatly got caught in the zipper of my skinny jeans.  the rayonish/mesh tank top that went over the dress was destroyed by a single kindergarden session.  these clothes are fairly cute but don't have much to offer in terms of longevity. i don't really believe in shopping like that but when you pack for a year, sometimes you find yourself lacking in essentials.  

Hey - took out the random code - not sure where the typos are though - you should just be able to hit edit on the left hand side and correct them.

Btw, this post totally made me giggle - are you really spending your hard-earned Won on disposable clothes?! And if so what do they look like?

what is wrong with this site?  why is there all kinds of html garbage in my post?  and why can't i edit the three typos i know are there?  dammit