Crossing the Street

I've been wanting to write about crossing the street for some time.  I still haven't quite figured out how to fully describe the challenge, the adventure, the hurdle, the task, the problem ... of getting across the street.

I can say that every morning, I have to cross the street to catch the school bus.  When I step up on the curb, having successfully crossed the street, I do feel like I've accomplished something.

So ... I decided the best way might be to take a video.  And here you have it.

Don't worry ... that isn't what I was trying to cross ... I had already crossed that street.  It is a divided highway, so I cross TWO roads each morning.

Those white buses, with the blue lettering ... those are all going to the school where I work, they just aren't buses that stop and pick me up.

That side of the street is now a virtual HUB of bus activity.  The public bus (#72) stops along there.  Two OTHER company buses stop there to pick up people.  Some of those people have started up conversations with me (practicing their English) and so I have "friends" that wait there with me.  All our buses tend to come within a 3-minute time frame.  I wave good-bye to them as their bus pulls away ... and now, their bus drivers wave to me as well.