Chapter 119 – Episode 119. To the Study Room Together
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– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
Sunday begins with a walk to the academy’s self-study room.
Since it is Sunday, there are no regular lectures at the academy, but I tried to study at the academy’s self-study room so that I could be more efficient than at home on the weekend.
The academy’s self-study room is open from dawn to 10:30 p.M. On weekdays, and the self-study room is open even on weekends even when there are no lectures.
However, there are many students who use the academy self-study room before and after classes, so weekends are much less crowded than weekdays.
The weather outside is still a bit cold.
I wonder if the next month or the month after that, that is, when it comes to January or February, the days will be fuller.
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
As I walked, I remembered the cold weather training in January or February, when I was in the military, when I couldn’t get that cold.
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What I remembered was during the march in the cold season.
During the march in full gear, sweat poured down like rain even in sub-zero weather, but when we took a 10-minute break during the 8-hour march, our bodies seemed to freeze in an instant even during that short and sweet break.
While taking a rest in the marching ranks of two columns in a snowstorm, the successor behind me was crying.
“Ugh… Ugh… Lee Jin-hyeok is sick, no water!”
It was during the corporal’s time to blur the pronunciation, but he was definitely less experienced than me.
I laughed when I saw it.
Haha! Hey, you’re the corporal’s junk food, dude. There’s no way he’ll come out. The canteen is frozen.”
“I wonder if you brought this separately to eat when Jinhyuk Lee is sick?”
“There’s another one~”
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Recalling what happened at that time, I shook my head.
Yes, compared to the military, this is relatively warm.
On Sunday morning, not many people go out.
I didn’t get out of the studio and go through the short road to the academy, but for some reason I wanted to turn slightly to the main road, so I did that.
Time makes no difference.
There’s a little bit of a turn there, but the time will differ by about 1-2 minutes.
Rather than going straight to the academy to study in such a hurry, I wanted to change my mood a little by looking at the main road and passing by the food alley on the way.
I smoked a cigarette in front of the house.
If you pass this way, it is an academy, and when you enter the academy, you will continue to study for a day in the self-study room.
I’m not afraid of a day like this.
I’m still studying now, and since studying is a job that requires a lot of head rotation, mental fatigue and stress may rise, but I don’t think it’s that severe.
It is also relative.
I had to work for a certain period of time in order to attend private academies, pay rent, pay for maintenance, cell phone, and food in this gosichon.
I did all sorts of things.
The many details that I received while doing such ‘work’ were much more than the ones I received while studying.
However, I think that humans are animals of oblivion.
When I was working, it was not long before I got angry and hit quite a few times.
At that time, I think that it would be great if I quickly quit my job and just study.
In reality, people have different thoughts, so there may be individual differences, but for me, studying while eating and sleeping was much less burdensome than working to earn money.
However, when I stop working and start studying, after a while, studying becomes difficult, just like when I wanted to study.
In the end, it’s relative.
Forgetting what was difficult in the past, forgetting that the present is more comfortable than the past, and trying to become more comfortable than the present.
I seem to have that attribute.
And I wonder if many people have attributes similar to mine.
So, while studying relatively comfortably, you may get away from studying and find other entertainment with the thought that it will be difficult.
Me too.
I always think, I study while keeping in mind that I don’t know when my concentration will run out.
Although I am currently studying on my own, I look at myself with a cold-hearted gaze, thinking that if my long-term concentration runs out, I may go down the same path as some other students who are leaking into the side.
I want to be more prepared for that.
That’s why I still have some enthusiasm for learning and try to do a little more when I can.
If other students see me like this, they might think, ‘Wow, I’m working really hard’.
But I myself don’t think so highly of myself.
A sheet of thin ice on the water that can be broken at any time, which can be seen in the early winter season like now, is the image of myself with uncertainty in my learning.
So I want to spend today with studying hard.
My current situation is similar to the mentality of thinking about the future while playing a basketball game and thinking of only one goal first before running.
‘Just for today… Try hard.’
I was going to the academy with those thoughts in mind, and it was almost time to arrive at the academy.
“Brother!”
I turned around at the voice calling me.
“Uh, Yoon Kyung-ah.”
Yoon-kyung approached her fairly close to her from behind and next to her and talked to me about her.
Yoon-kyung walked in line with me with her light steps and talked to me.
“Brother, you came out very early~ Did you eat?”
I didn’t eat breakfast.
I just had no idea.
“No, well. I don’t really have an appetite.”
When I spoke, Yun-kyung took a rather big reaction.
“Oh!
“Yoon Kyung-ah. That’s what my brother…”
“Ah~, oppa originally just wanted to go to the study room~. Just for today, please put a spoon on me.”
Yoon-kyung crossed my arms.
And it wasn’t the convenience store right next to the academy, but it led me to a nearby convenience store with seating, not too far from the academy.
Originally, I had planned not to eat breakfast, but whatever I ate, of course, it wasn’t that bad.
After going to the convenience store, Yoon-gyeong chose two bundles of bananas and a small strawberry milk.
Then I picked up a sandwich and soda water in a green plastic bottle.
We went to the counter to pick out things to buy, and as soon as we went to the counter, Yoon-gyeong took out her card and held out her card as if she had been waiting.
“Here you go!”
“It’s 5450 won.”
The part-time job was a woman.
She glanced at me as she did her calculations.
Then she lowered her gaze and put on a slightly puzzled expression.
After meeting so many women, I felt like I could understand their thoughts to some extent by looking at their expressions.
Currently, when I see this part-time job girl, as soon as she sees me, she is a handsome guy, so I’m in a situation where I’m quite interested, but since she has Yoon-kyung next to me, I can’t talk to her, and she avoids my gaze, and it seems she’s jealous of Yun-kyung.
-Giying
After the receipt came out, Yoon-gyeong and I walked towards the low tables where the two were connected to have a simple breakfast.
On the way, I pretended to look around and glanced at the part-time job, but as expected, I pretended not to and couldn’t take my eyes off me.
I just assumed it was because these things that women stare at endlessly happen to me often.
After sitting opposite Yoon-kyung at her table, we started eating breakfast.
Come to think of it, I felt like I was unintentionally opening a breakfast that didn’t require a wallet this morning.
It’s been quite a lot since the old days.
When women were interested in me, they would give me quite a bit of something to eat.
There were so many of them that I couldn’t meet them all, but it felt good.
Yoon-kyung ate a banana, and I ate a sandwich, and we talked together.
It was Yoon-kyung who brought up the story first.
“Brother, isn’t the weather too cold?”
“Yeah, it would be better if the wind blows a little less. Is the house okay?”
In general, gosiwons are well-heated.
In terms of cooling, each kosiwon is a bit different, but kosiwons with individual air conditioners are quite comfortable, and cooling with a central air conditioner can get steamy in midsummer.
In cooling, such a difference may occur, but in the case of heating, it is often centered, but if you listen to many people’s stories, they say that they are generally satisfied with heating.
In the case of me, I currently live in a studio, so I turn on both heating and cooling by myself. The room is rather large for a studio in a gosichon, but the room itself is not large, so even if I turn it to the pool, the heating and cooling bills do not come out that much.
Yunkyung answered my words.
“Uh, yes. It’s warm when I sleep. I don’t go into the house often.”
“Is it because I’m always in the study room at the academy?”
It’s not often, but I came out of the academy’s self-study room and occasionally ran into Yun-gyeong, so I said.
And Yoon-kyung answered my question.
“There are many in the self-study room, but I also have some registered in the reading room.”
“Okay?”
“Yes. There is a new reading room, but it’s really well partitioned, right? That’s why it’s different from other places.”
“Oh~.”
Ordinary reading rooms are not so well partitioned.
However, seeing that the environment was well maintained, I wanted to take a look at the reading room.
And I think registering for a reading room is also a good way.
Several academy self-study rooms are open, and you can study at home, but I think it’s better if there are a few different places to study.
Even if I play a fighting action game in an arcade, there are a lot of maps, and it is difficult to see it as more fun than a game. I think we can increase the efficiency even more.
There will be pros and cons.
Having the same place to study seems to be more helpful in forming habits, and having different places to study can be disadvantageous in forming habits, but I think I can increase my concentration at the moment.
Anyway, I also think that the space itself called the reading room that Yoon-Kyung says is a good place to study.
Yoon Kyung-eun has been talking a little more about her reading room she attends.
She said, “It’s got white noise, it’s air purifier, it’s heated.”
“It’s the office room. The hotel reading room.”
“Ho-ho-ho! Yes. It’s fine there. If you have any plans to sign up for the reading room, let me know. The price is the same as anywhere else.”
“Oh~, really? If the academy’s self-study room is too tiring, I think it would be okay to register for a reading room. If I come up with an idea, I’ll talk about it.”
“Yes!”
Yoon-gyeong and I ate breakfast while talking about those things.
And she ate one banana and saved one banana saying she was full, and I ate the whole sandwich and left about half of the soda so I decided to save.
Yoon-kyung puts a banana in her bag, holds a small strawberry milk with a thin white straw, and starts walking with me back to the academy.
I smiled at Yun-kyung and said her words.
“Then shall we go?”
“Yes~!”
Yoon-kyung, who answered like her youngest son, was always cute.
Watching Yun-kyung fixing her red backpack with a bright smile on her warm clothes, I smiled and walked with her to the self-study room.
Entering the academy and climbing the stairs, I talked to Yoon-kyung.
“Come to think of it, is this the first time? Going to self-study together like this.”
“Huh, I’m afraid oppa might get in the way, so I’ve taken it to another place in the study room. Also, when I look at oppa, his face catches my eyes more than the book.”
Haha! Ah~, that’s true. I guessed it.”
“Let’s do well together today.”
Yoon-kyung held out her hand that was not holding her strawberry milk, and I took Yoon-kyung’s hand and shook her hand.
Yunkyung’s small, white hand was warm.
And Yoongyeong and I took a seat in the large lecture hall on the 4th floor today, sat side by side by the window, and naturally sat down and studied together.
