Aaron Tassano, a friend I know through my New York pals Nick M. and Russell W. and Reeves H., is teaching English in Busan, Korea. And he’s blogging up a storm. An especially hilarious posting from a few days ago:
Cats are only in Busan because they eat rats. The cats here are wild and can be heard nightly fighting in the streets. There are no rats, fortunately, because that’s my most feared animal. Though the cats are mangy, a little like rats.
I asked the student if he still had the pet cat.
“No…,” he said, stopping. Looking for the right words. “I…used to give bath…to cat.”
“You bathed your cat?” I asked.
“Yes…”
I started to wonder what happened to said cat…
“Did it like the bath?”
“No…it hated bath.”
“But you kept giving it baths.”
“Yes…I give bath…every night.”
“Every night?!”
“Yes. It’s…” he made a motion as if to pet the smoothly washed coat of a cat “…very soft after I give bath to cat.”
You can read more here.