So I went to Costco with my new coworker Sunny. She brought her Costco card from home, so it was pretty much awesome. We bought all kinds of fantastic stuff. I got granola (SCORE) and yogurt (DOUBLE SCORE) chicken, green beans, coffee, hot dogs, beans and salad. Anywho, we ate a lovely dinner with the cutest little Korean baby ever (like... every Korean baby). And then we decided to take a cab. We were trying to decide whether or not to take the little Taxi or the Van when some van drivers started to make a deal.

"How much," I asked. I told them I was around Jangsan and between the two of them, they figured out that it was a pretty reasonable number, so off we went, in the cab.

The guy who spoke better English did most of the talking, but it was the guy who spoke less English who approached us, so, doing the decent thing, the other van driver let the first guy take the job and navigated the whole directions piece for us. I told him my apartment building and then, the second guy explained to the first guy that we didn't want to go to Jangsan Station like I originally had said, but some place very near Jangsan Station. He explained it was very near and off we went.

This presented a little bit of a problem when we were in the taxi, though, because, like all human being, he started to become uncertain of his directions and tried to ask us if this was what his friend was talking about. Unfortunately, I didn't understand his question and just kept on saying, "yes, yes," because I was pretty sure we were going the right way.

Finally, I just wanted to tell him "Go straight," but I couldn't remember the word. There was just a blank in my head. "Go straight" I said pointing. I pressed my head trying to get my brain to work.

"Chin, chin?" he said.

I brightened. I knew this word. This word was "go straight"

"Ne, ne!" I said, which is "Yes, yes".

And then we went straight. Sadly, we took the wrong fork of a two forked road and ended up on the other side of where we want to be. I still knew where I was, though and set about finding my way.

"Chin, chin," I said and then, as we got closer he asked, "Oren choke?", which is right. I shook my head, "When choke" and then he tried to take a hard left into a alleyway I hadn't notice up until that moment.

"No, no, no!" I said, "Chin, chin, THEN when choke" (which I can imagine was only slightly more helpful), but between my fervid hand motions and my scattered Korean, it was understood. We waited until we came to the light and then me and my friend both said, "when choke!"

Point is, we got there and learned some Korean on the way.

What we learned:

Go straight "Chin, chin"
Left "Wen choke"
Right "Orin choke"
Over here "Yogi-oh"
Yes "Ne"
No "Ani-yo"

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