저는 바다에서 수영합니다

"I in sea swim." I think/hope that's what I put in the subject line, anyway. Korean is an agglutinating language (that word always makes me think of blood clots). The particle that means in or at is glued onto the word that means sea. We Duolingo users at my level have been told that there are not articles as such. The only pronoun I have seen is I, I have only seen one level of formality, and I don't know anything but simple present tenses. Word order is SVO, and similar. Am I ever going to try to speak this? No. At some point it will stop being a game and I will quit. We went back to Singing Beach early this morning (before the resident only rule started being in force) and I actually did swim a little, in a basic dog paddle way, because I left my face covering on and didn't want to get it or my head wet. I can't even fake "I bell ring" or "I Red Line ride" but I did both of those yesterday. The Church of the Advent has one in-person service a Sunday now. (still none at Old North). By internationally agreed guidelines for change ringers re-starting service ringing, we only rang for fifteen minutes. We only rang every other bell, to leave distance (so four ringers total), the windows were open, and we wore masks. In some places, probably none in the US, there are towers that have enough ringers in one household to staff a whole band, so they can be a little looser in preparation as long as they aren't putting worshippers at risk. These five months had been the longest time period since I started in 1980 that I've gone without physically ringing a tower bell. I can still do it. To get there, I drove to Davis and took the Red Line to Charles. The turnstile informed me that my card had expired (some of them have expiration numbers on them, but mine doesn't). The worker in the booth let me in, and I am in the process of registering the card so that I can fix this online. It was a little more crowded than I'd hoped - at most, there were twenty riders in the car, one of whom had no mask (he seemed to have an enormous scab on his nose, so maybe he considered that a medical exemption), and one person was doing the let-it-slide below his nose thing. So 90% correct usage. On the way back, I accepted a car ride from a friend to Alewife, using the rules that I use for the friend I drive to oncology appointments - I was in the back, as far away from the driver's seat as possible. We both had masks. the windows were open. An acceptable level of risk, I think. Then I walked to Davis, stopping by a restaurant we used to frequent that is selling 50-count bags of frozen dumplings. We steamed 16 as soon as I got home, so that was another treat in a time period full of them.