Today I will make the commitment: I will take a placement test and pay for my one-month full-time Korean Language class. Based on grammar and passive understanding abilities, I’d be sure to place out of the beginning level, but my active vocabulary is so poor, I may get stuck in one of the beginning levels anyway. I’ve been trying to cram vocabulary a little bit, but, as usual, to little real effect.
Day: January 24, 2010
Caveat: Circumperambulation
My friend Peter came down from Ilsan today and we took a long walk around Suwon, which is where I’m staying for now – just be somewhere interesting and different, if not terribly well-located vis-a-vis the Seoul metropolitan area.
Suwon has old city walls around about 80% of it’s old-city perimeter, but it’s otherwise a rather stark, industrial city. Together the old fortress elements combined with its proletarian character make it seem vaguely European.
Peter and I walked a full circle along the top of the wall. Here is a view of the weird, gothic-industrial church to be found just southeast of the old city wall.
Here is a picture of a bird.
Here is a picture of Buddha, perched against the mountainside in the western part of the walled-in old city.
