He is clearly put in his place by the director and from then on responds well to you. Your confidence as a teacher grows.

On Friday, you decide to celebrate your successful first week of teaching by catching a train to Busan for a night or two on the town.

Bringing along your trusty guide book, you find yourself a cheap and clean, if somewhat cramped and unadorned, place to stay as well as many things to do and see. On Saturday, you relinquish your room on the premise that you may go home that night or, if not, you can easily find another one.

The sightseeing goes well and that night you decide to check out the bar scene. It turns out to be great and you see your first non-Korean faces since arriving in Asia. You try a few bars, drinking beer and listening to live bands and talking to a group of other foreigners.

After a while, the bands stop playing and the dancing begins. Having reached that not-quite-drunk-but-certainly-not-sober state that gives one a sense of brash self-confidence and energy, you decide to join in. You dance for a few hours, then realize you need to decide what to do as far as the rest of the night is concerned. You decide:

to stay out until exhaustion overwhelms you, then catch the first train back home.

to call it a night and get a hotel room.

to keep going for the time being and get a hotel room when needed.