Chapter 46 – Episode 46. Compliments Pouring Only on Me
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“Hello~!”
“Hello~. We came early too, but we were just getting the muffins we ordered~. I called you when we got to the entrance earlier…”
Morning study meeting.
Finally, two arrived.
Hyena Kim and Sangwon Park are a couple.
We, who sat down first, exchanged greetings as if others had arrived.
“Oh, yes, hello~.”
“Hello~.”
Kim Hye-na and Park Sang-won, the reason they give a long explanation for coming early is because of the fine.
There are several penalty rules in the study.
Among them, of course, tardiness is also included among the various fines.
The fine isn’t a huge amount, but it can’t feel too good.
So people try to avoid paying fines as much as possible.
Kim Hye-na and Park Sang-won, who are a little late, are not late as they say.
Arriving at the fast food restaurant was obviously within the designated time.
I also saw Hochang, the leader of the study group, answering their calls, and the time at that time was safe enough.
I mean, though.
I came earlier, got the menu, and sat down…
They arrived a bit early, but by the time they got the goods, isn’t it too late anyway?
Well, I think it doesn’t matter if they don’t have to pay the fine.
The significance of a study group is to get together every day and study together outside of lecture time.
However, it is true that some people think that they are modest.
I’m sorry…
How about that?
I decided not to bother and watch it.
Because they are a couple in the goshichon, they will consume more physical strength than us.
Day after day, night after night, the two of us biting, sucking, and fucking, and after spending the night and dawn doing the same thing, we would be at a bit of a disadvantage physically.
I close my eyes with my broad magnanimity.
They will be there soon too.
Certainly, there are advantages to gathering people together.
Maybe a little bit more motivated?
The downside is that if you become dependent on people and become addicted to people, your efficiency will drop when you do something by yourself.
Another week of study, today to start the week, I try to start with a lot of fighting spirit with my studymates.
There is no such thing as Monday sickness.
It’s because it’s not about taking a break and going to work, but just studying again.
Whether it’s Monday or Sunday, it doesn’t make much of a difference these days because I’m stuck in the academy’s self-study room unless I’m listening to lectures.
But there is always a sense of crisis.
If you study without a break like this, mannerisms might come to you someday.
Even for that time, when things go well, you have to make sure.
Today, hard work.
The place seems fine too.
Aside from the distance from each other’s homes, this place is close to the academy anyway, so it’s convenient because everyone gathers together to go to the academy after studying.
There were also some minor adjustments.
Originally, as soon as we got out of the house, we went to a fast food restaurant and gathered until 20 minutes before class.
However, as they did it, it became a trend for study members to go to the academy first, unpack their luggage, and then gather here because they gathered at a place near the academy anyway.
It should be free to do.
There is a rule that everyone must gather at the same time for study, but in the academy class, it is each person’s freedom to take a class in any seat.
In my case, I went out 30 minutes early today, took a seat at the academy, and then came to McDonald’s leisurely.
The fast food restaurant was full of energy.
There were quite a few people who wanted to have a simple breakfast, and there were also a group of people studying like us.
Still, there was no problem with the study conditions because it was definitely much less crowded than lunchtime.
We are a group of 6, but the table holds 8 people.
I didn’t order the breakfast menu because Eunhee noona and Hochang didn’t have any ideas.
So, only the remaining 4 people, including me, ate various menu items.
Immediately after everyone gathered, the study began.
“Now that everyone is here, let’s guess the words first, shall we?”
“Here’s the practice field… Will everyone do this?”
“Yes~!”
First, tear 2 practice sheets into 6 pieces.
If you fold it Koi and tear it apart, it will tear straight.
“This, why don’t you buy the practice field from now on with the penalty saved?”
“Oh, that’s a good idea. It’s a nuisance that several people use it all the time like this.”
“Okay, let’s do that.”
With that, everyone randomly writes the words to be solved today in English without order.
And turn the words with those English words sideways.
I also pass the paper with English words to the right, and solve the problem as soon as I receive the paper from the person on the left.
‘Today’s vocabulary is…’
‘Consort, colleague. Homage, respect. Bonanza, good luck. Amnesty, envoy. Hedonist, hedonist. …’
There are more unfamiliar things in the vocabulary of civil servants compared to the vocabulary of the CSAT.
I am confident of this
Pouring out short-term memory.
Unfortunately, most of the factors that determine success in the civil service exam are long-term memories, not short-term memories.
That’s not something I can do, I just stick to the present.
I ran out of answers to words in a flash.
Then, after turning the paper over, I thought about it while eating the muffins I had ordered in advance.
“Mum mum…”
When I speak English, I feel that way.
I wondered if I really needed this vocabulary, or I wondered if I shouldn’t use another secondary vocabulary that could be substituted.
So, respect is to write the easy word respect instead of homage, and luck is to have a question about whether you shouldn’t use good luck instead of bonanza.
However, it is understandable to some extent when considering the special nature of this civil service exam.
This test is hard to see as a test to find out what kind of job someone is qualified for.
It seems a bit disappointing that it seems to be a test that is far from job qualifications.
If the civil service exam is a test to qualify for work as a civil servant, the style of the exam will have to be quite different.
First of all…
Administrative law will not be a side subject, but a required subject for one-time civil servants, and you will have to memorize all the detailed cases.
Also, remove English or something like this and put in a subject like ‘Volunteer Spirit’ to get a perfect score if you have completed 300 hours or more of your existing community service time, or something like this to build up your specs, or put in a subject like ‘Practice’ to become a civil servant, and then get an initial 1. It might be a good idea to learn in advance what kind of work you will be doing in a year or so.
Even if personality is a separate personality test, it seems that you can see job qualifications only when the exam is composed of administrative law, service skills, and practical work.
However, the current exam is based on Korean, English, and Korean history, and I am looking at other subjects, and English has a strong ability to discriminate among them.
Some might say that people who are good at Korean, English, and Korean history don’t work well because they are smart, but I see it a little differently.
Rather than trying to see job qualifications, this test simply has to drop a lot of people, so it seems that the difficulty is raised like this every year, and it seems like you have to read almost the entire box of books.
Okay. Currently, it is just a test to drop many applicants in the job competition that converges to infinity rather than job suitability.
That’s how I see it.
After everyone guessed the word, it was scored by the person next to them and returned to them.
“Oh, Eunhee noona, are you all right?”
“Hochang-ah, did you get two wrong?”
“Ah, this? Oops… I got these two confused.”
“Brother, here you are.”
“Um. Thank you.”
It took less than 5 minutes to guess the word.
Since everyone got one or two wrong or got all right, no one reached a rate of error that would result in a fine.
It could be seen that everyone was enthusiastic.
The fine collected today is 0 won.
For some reason, I was also happy that all the study members seemed to be doing well.
I stared at my word scoring paper for a moment, all plastered with red circles.
[0]
This means that there are 0 wrong questions.
Next to all the words, my answers are circled in red ballpoint pen.
It was a small thing in a way, but it gave me a sense of accomplishment.
One of the difficult things about the civil service exam is that I can’t see what I’m doing right now, and I can’t see the end either.
In online games, you can constantly hunt and kill monsters and eat gold and items thrown there to feel an infinite sense of accomplishment, but there are few such opportunities in studying for the civil service exam.
So, I feel proud that each and every one of these little things becomes a kind of indicator that I am doing well in my studies.
Before I knew it, it was my turn to give a short reading lecture, so I decided to start a one-act lecture.
“I’m reading today. Let’s start.”
Everyone opened the book and looked at the page I was trying to interpret.
I read English first.
“The public was angry to learn that politicians have done a lot of illegal job favors for their children to public corporations. The public should investigate the requests made by lawmakers and government officials for their children’s favors. …”
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You just have to read it according to the style of the person who prepared it, so everyone has a slightly different way of releasing the reading comprehension sentence in detail.
After reading and interpreting the sentences, I added basic explanations to the grammatical ones in the middle.
I’d heard that from a long time ago.
Those who speak English well have an advantage when they have a high level of linguistic and Korean sense.
Some agree
If your English skills are a bit poor, you may have to put together words and sentences and write a scenario in your own words.
Also, even after reading all of these, there are cases where the sentence itself is difficult to translate well into our language.
However, basically, it seems that having an adequate level of reading comprehension of English syntax is more advantageous than having a good command of the language.
Reading comprehension is an area that I manage to do well, but there are some elements of anxiety because the time limit is so short in the civil service exam.
I think I need to improve my English a bit more than I do now.
Finishing up a short lecture in my turn, the study that is done every day has been finished safely and briefly today.
People said one word at a time as they packed their things.
“Ohh~, Jinhyeok’s lecture is good. Hey, he checks the important points well, right?”
“I think it would be great if Jinhyeok was a lecturer. You, don’t you have any idea about a lecturer?
“Unnie, if Jinhyeok is an instructor, the kids’ grades will be a big deal. Wouldn’t the female students study at all because they were staring at his face?”
“Ah~, you can listen even harder to look good~, Kwon Se-ah is also very good at it.”
“Is that so?”
These are stories about me, but they are compliments that are unfamiliar for some reason, so I spared my words and responded to them with a light smile.
Actually, I tried teaching when I was in college.
However, since it was something I would have to do for the rest of my life, it didn’t seem to be suitable for me, so I quit midway through and found another job while studying.
Because of my experience at that time, the short lectures I give may be smoother among the lectures that I take turns, but… Well, I’m not that great, I’m just a student taking the exam.
Hochang is also quite good, and Sangwon hyung is one level lower, but it’s not bad, but only when I give a lecture is this bombardment of praise…
Anyway, I’m quite used to compliments because women have complimented me on the smallest things.
Still, of course, I appreciate the compliments they give me.
There is a feeling that I finished a little faster, but when I looked at the time, there were about 10 minutes left until the academy class started.
It has become a trend to reserve seats for lectures at the academy in advance, so we decided to sit down for a while at a fast food restaurant very close to the academy and have some more muffins and drinks.
After studying together for a week, there were not many things like awkwardness with each other like it was the first time.
After sitting down for a while, we all go to the academy together.
“Shall we go now?”
“Yes~.”
“Did Eunhee noona come right away without taking the seat?”
“No, I left my seat too?”
“I hope you brought your bag.”
“I only left two books open~, hehe.”
Even while walking to the academy, the six study members like us ended up walking toward the academy in twos and twos.
Couple Kim Hye-na and Park Sang-won.
Hochang and me.
Yoon-kyung and Eun-hee older sisters.
So, two by two, we started walking towards the academy.
Hochang walking next to me asks me.
“Are your studies going well?”
“Uh. It’s going well these days, but it would be nice if this continued until the end of the exam.”
“Are you studying on the weekend?”
“Uh.”
“Wow. That’s great. I take a little break on the weekend.”
“Hmm? What are you doing?”
“Yesterday, I ran about 17 games of one role… Oh, really, I’m going to die, I’m going to die after meeting the trolls.”
Wait.
17 games a day?
Hmm…
Hochang’s concentration seemed to be very great in a sense.
On the short walk to the academy, Hochang has been talking a little more about simple roles.
It was mainly a story about various trolls that I met in various editions.
“No, he’s going to the support with Vladimir because he doesn’t give me mid. It seemed a bit insane from then on, but he started mezai with a sun item? All the team members cursed at him, but what he said was mezai while he was not paying attention. Are you saying you’re going to build up a stack and carry in the second half… What are you talking about? It was completely trampled on by the AD. So after the bots were completely destroyed and pushed all the way to the 3rd tower, that shit came mid and up to the top…”
I was able to understand Hochang’s words, so I gave appropriate responses from time to time.
But in reality, I wasn’t very interested in Hochang’s favorite games.
There was a time when I really liked the game.
But since I didn’t do this again, I didn’t do it again.
The game is definitely fun.
But it seems that there is not much left.
I think it’s better to meet beautiful girls than to play games if it’s to spend time.
If you are with them, you will have quite a few beautiful memories.
Even after time passes, those things that I remember sparsely once in a while become fragments of small and lovely memories when I look back on the life I have lived.
However, it seems difficult to see that the game has so many memorable elements that can be remembered for such a long time.
Even if I play the game really hard for a long time, I can hardly remember a single game.
The day after Hochang played the 17th edition, I remember sparsely like this, but even if it is tomorrow, I may not remember even one of those 17 editions.
Depending on one’s taste, I think one might still like the game.
There are definitely positives to the game.
For example, it can help you forget reality, refresh yourself, and build confidence.
Or between people in the same company while going to work.
If people who work together become closer through games, it seems that working together in the company can be more enjoyable.
There are definitely good things about the game, too.
But personally, when I look back, I like to remember something.
In a way, human beings live a fixed time, and how that time is structured seems to be a factor that can determine what kind of life I have lived.
But doing something I don’t remember well is a pity for me.
Still, on the way to the academy, within walking distance of a fast food restaurant.
This much has nothing to do with the story of a game that you won’t remember even after an hour.
That’s why, rather than just going, I moved my steps while listening to Hochang’s enthusiastic discussion about the game in a loud voice.
By the time we almost arrived at the academy, there was even a table in front of the convenience store selling peperos piled up like a mountain.
The distance of the 6 of us became quite close around the academy, and Ho-chang, who saw a pile of pepero, said a word to Eun-hee noona.
“Uh, today is November 11~. Noona, can you buy me one pepero?”
At Ho-chang’s words, Eun-hee noona stopped for a moment and looked back at Ho-chang.
As Eunhee noona stopped, Yoongyeong, who was walking beside her, also stopped for a moment.
Then, Eunhee noona said, looking at Hochang, as if watching ramen that had just been boiled and accidentally spilled out of the pot.
“Whoa~, these are all tricks.”
I burst into laughter from Eunhee noona’s expression rather than from her words.
After Eunhee noona said that to Hochang, she started talking to me.
“That’s right, Jinhyeok.”
“Haha, that’s right. Pepero Company, I’ll only wait for today out of the year.”
After I answered, Eunhee noona spoke to me again.
“Would you like to buy one?”
Eun-hee, who said she would not buy a pepero for Ho-chang, asked me if I would buy one, and Ho-chang burst into laughter and swarmed.
“Oh me~!”
I and others laughed too.
And we all went to the academy together.
