Briefly...

Near Pusan National University (PNU), there are a number of street vendors who seem open all hours, or at least through the prime drinking times. This area is home to "Soul Trane", a bar that seems to be all the rage among a nice mix of foreigners and Korean college students; it's the place that--if you've been keeping up with me--brought about my "bathtub" night, and it seems to be the watering hole of choice for the group of foreigners I've befriended. Back to my main point: these street vendors sell one of the most delightful late night bar-hopping snacks that a man could ever find-- corndogs with french fries cooked inside the batter. At the stand I stopped at, I managed to get one for a cool 600 won (60 cents), which almost made me consider making them a daily part of my diet. This story goes nowhere, but I'm glad to tell it.

I start teaching classes tomorrow... very excited to be over with orientation, which dragged on for this entire week despite the fact that I could have been presented all of its information in one day. I taught a golden Model Lesson today about the differences between "Might" and "Will" for the other teachers; apparently the Korean teachers were all really impressed, although anything approaching constructive criticism seems hard to find here. Overall, I'm confident that this will be the easiest teaching job I've ever had. I think that's a good thing, at least for now.