Did you visit the museum? I wanted to, but it was closed.

It was unusual for a North Korean woman of her status to get a higher education. But my mother was such a good scholar that she was accepted at a college in the nearby city of Hamhung. If given a choice, she would have liked to have become a doctor. But only students from better families are allowed a say in what they will study.

It had always been his habit to say, I will be jiggered, but this time he said, I am jiggered.

set on getting to his destination