Caveat: The commute to work, part III: “High Street” [Zeromancer – Fractured]

I don't really know the name of the street.  It's one of basically two streets that make up Hongnong town.  There's a "High Street" and a "Low Street" – I mean these literally, because one street is farther up the hill than the other, and they run parallel to each other, with little alleyways between, for about 10 blocks in length.  The bus terminal is on the southwest end of "High Street" and the elementary school where I work is on about two-thirds along the same street, toward the northeast end.  Beyond the elementary school is the middle school and the fire station.

Here's the little video I made – all shakey and walky but whatever… it sorta captures the town.  Although that morning I didn't run into any of my students, like I normally do.  The music is "Fractured" by Zeromancer.  Awesome track.

(Sorry the resolution is so poor – I've been having nightmares with uploading large files from home, so I cut the video output filesize way back, to make it tolerable on upload – it still took 25 minutes to put it on youtube.)

Caveat: Where is your house?

Mr Kim, from last weekend, invited me to go hiking today.   I was thrilled to hear myself attempting to give him directions to my apartment in Korean, yesterday evening, on the phone.   Well, not thrilled.  But it gives me some optimism, when I use the language at all in a successful way, that I may someday "get there" – wherever "there" is: some kind of communicative efficacy, anyway.

"Where is your house?" he asked.  I answered in English, and realized he wasn't understanding.  I tried to explain in Korean, then.  I wasn't even using full sentences.  But he said he understood.  Now, we have a real-life test of that understanding, as I wait for him to show up to pick me up.

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