Chapter 268 – Chapter 268. The Academy Is Closed, So I Study in a Studio All Day
(This is the main character (me) point of view again.)
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[Closed academy related to COVID-19 infection]
“…It’s true.”
I don’t go to an academy, but I do use the academy’s self-study room.
I became a scholarship student in a mock test for civil servants at this large academy held not long ago and received a scholarship student-only seat from the academy.
However, when I came to the academy, the shutters were down as planned.
And the front of the shutter was coated with a piece of paper saying it was closed due to the corona virus.
I took a peek inside.
The thin aluminum shutters were lowered, so you could see inside from the outside, but you couldn’t go in.
‘It’s empty even though the guard is there.’
The inside of the school was quiet.
Maybe there were people at the desk on the second floor who were doing business, such as assistants, but I wasn’t sure.
And since I had no business with the teaching assistants or counselors, it was also irrelevant.
A while ago, the academy urgently announced the period to take out the books in the self-study room for scholarship students and books in the locker.
Then, in the end, the academy really closed down like this.
At that time, I listened to the instructions and took out all the books and brought them home, so it was okay.
Still, I was a little disappointed because of the study room.
After wandering around for a bit, I decided to go home.
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
It was a bit precious.
Although I had skills, I was lucky to a certain extent, and even ranked in the top ranks in mock exams for civil service exams at large academies.
In the yard where even the self-study room for scholarship students was won, the academy was closed like this.
‘Ah~, my study room for scholarship students only~.’
However, I had no intention of protesting or protesting the academy.
In fact, it was because I read an article that there was an infected person in this goshichon, and that there were 500 people in contact.
Once you live, you take the civil service exam or whatever.
In that respect, I thought the academy’s decision was a good decision.
Since the virus mainly moves from person to person, the host, it is especially dangerous in a densely populated area like this, and I thought the academy’s decision was correct.
-Suck…
I looked at my smartphone while walking.
I also searched other large academies on my cell phone, but the situation was the same.
All other schools were also closed.
It’s a bit far from the academy I go to for self-study, but since there were confirmed cases at other large academies anyway, the academies themselves were alert.
If it didn’t close and there was even an article saying that the infected had come into contact with 500 people that way, the sales of the academy would be withdrawn that day.
I decided to study at home.
First of all, I thought it would be nice to buy something on the way home.
‘Let’s go buy something to eat while we’re out. I should stop by the nearby convenience store.’
It seemed better to go in and buy something to eat while leaving anyway, rather than having a meal or going back to buy something later.
I guess I’ll have to study at home for the time being.
Well, it’s okay
In fact, the study environment in the studio I am in now is not bad.
However, the environment is not bad, but my concentration is a problem.
I have a fairly short attention span.
When it comes to concentrating for a short period of time, I can achieve efficiency several times faster than other people with crazy brain power.
However, as time passes, my concentration becomes almost like that of a scarecrow standing on a rice field, and I am bruised at the sight of distant mountains.
Since I am aware of my strengths and weaknesses myself, I preferred to learn in a new environment when it comes to learning.
Strangely, when the environment changes, the concentration is maintained for a certain period of time.
For example, the self-study room in the large lecture hall at a large academy was good, and the self-study room for scholarship students was also good.
You will no longer be able to use it.
That is, if you study at home.
‘It won’t be easy. I study better in the study room at the academy than at home.’
I felt that continuing my concentration until the end of the civil service exam was even more difficult due to the COVID-19 crisis.
If you study from the moment you wake up in the morning at home until you fall asleep at night, there is no movement, so it is correct that you have 16 to 18 hours left, excluding the time you normally sleep.
But human concentration is not like that.
Especially my concentration is more like that.
In a new environment, I was unexpectedly at a disadvantage due to my constitution, which can increase my short attention span.
Still, I made up my mind.
‘Still, let’s try hard while remembering the original intention.’
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
As I walked to the convenience store, I remembered four months ago.
It is not a complete original intention, but it can be said that it is a newly established original intention.
Ah… 4 months?
Has it already been that time?
Time flies.
For about half of the year, I worked part-time in this gosichon, earned my rent in advance, and drank alcohol. Then, one day in October, I started studying again.
October.
When I opened the civil service book again after a long time, I was ablaze with fighting spirit.
With less than half of the test period remaining, even though an enormous amount of learning was unfolding in front of my eyes, I studied without giving up.
And as a beginner, there were times when I used the academy self-study room because it was open to the public for free, but there were quite a few times when I studied at home alone.
Thinking of that time, I thought that I would pass the exam by working hard for the rest of my time.
The exam is only one month away.
The test is in late March, so now the real test is imminent.
I felt a little strange when I thought that there was only one month left.
I remember taking the exam last year, and I thought that a year had already passed since then.
From that point of view, time is really insignificant.
How did you do it, another year?
With such thoughts in mind, I arrived at a nearby convenience store.
As soon as I entered the convenience store, a woman wearing a mask greeted me.
“Welcome~.”
I also walked in wearing a mask and was greeted by her.
“Yes.”
The first place I visited was the lunch box corner of a convenience store.
‘Good timing.’
Luckily, there were some lunch boxes left.
Since people are not going out of the house due to the corona virus, there is a tendency to buy more at once than before when they come out, so I thought the lunch box might have been wiped out, but there were still enough left to choose from.
I picked up the sixth lunch box from among the remaining lunch boxes.
-Suck…
Examining the inside of the fleshy lunchbox through the transparent lunchbox, it was an upgrade from the previous fleshy lunchbox.
Unlike the previous pork lunch box, Vienna sausage is also added to the side dish, and there is also a fried egg, although it has a mechanical feeling as if it has been stamped.
And fish cake and kimchi are basic… I thought the amount of meat was okay, so I picked it up.
Besides that, I bought another bento box from another convenience store like Bulgogi and something, and then I picked out a few more sandwiches.
For drinks, I chose milk, milkis, and cola.
Besides that, I bought more.
Snacks, ice cream, cup noodles, etc.
Quite a lot.
For staples, a few convenience store lunches, a few sandwiches, drinks, and even snacks.
With this amount, it seemed that I could eat and live for about two days without having to buy something extra.
After choosing them all, I passed by and looked toward the mask corner.
‘Hmm…’
The mask was completely wiped off.
Last time I bought a mask here, but this time I didn’t see it.
Even if it cost more than 2,000 won per piece and 3,000 to 4,000 won each, the masks were not all sold out despite the fact that there were quite a few types.
So I bought only food and came to the counter.
Part-timer took a picture of the barcode of the item I brought.
-Beep, beep
Looking at it, I thought that this part-time job was fortunate.
If you listen to the stories that flow around you, it is said that a lot of part-time jobs are getting fired these days.
It has to be.
Due to the spread of the corona virus, there are so many customers that it is incomparable to the previous one.
However, from the boss’s point of view, it is not possible to pay only the salary of various part-timers.
Originally, I would have thought it was a bad boss if I cut off customers because there were no customers, but in this corona situation, at least there were no people to the extent that I had never experienced while living so far.
It is said that not only part-time jobs, but also some formal companies take unpaid leave and stay at home.
“Would you like a vinyl?”
Over the mask, a part-time job girl at a convenience store spoke to me.
I also answered her with her mask on.
“No, it’s fine. It’s close to home.”
I was really close to this convenience store if I fell over, so it was enough to just carry my stuff.
“Ah, we’ve seen each other often, but I’ll just give it to you~! Divide it into two~.”
“Yes? No…”
I tried to refuse a little bit, but the convenience store part-time job was already quickly putting the various groceries I bought into a plastic bag.
This was also because I was a respectable man.
Like everyone else, I also go to the convenience store a lot.
When I came to this convenience store, she apparently gave other customers 20 won and gave them plastic bags.
Most of the other forts are like that too.
But even if everyone does that right in front of me, they always give me a plastic bag when I go.
Hmm… Even if I have Warren Buffett’s financial skills, I cannot collect them and become rich and freestyle in the flood of money.
However, it was definitely a pleasant thing to see each and every one of these trivial things melt into my life in general.
‘I didn’t recognize him even though I was wearing a mask.’
In her eyes, it was as if I had put quite a bit of snow stamp on her.
Well, even when I went to the academy, I didn’t know much, but a lot of girls knew me, and before I knew it, I became a celebrity in the academy.
I couldn’t have sex with all of them because I was concentrating on my studies, but if I had made up my mind to have sex, I wondered if I could have sex with 80 people in 2 months when I went to a large academy.
Likewise, even when I was walking around the convenience store, I was quite noticeable to them.
On top of that, her part-time job girl at the convenience store took one more drink and took out a bunch of her masks in one hand and held them out in front of me.
“I thought you were looking for a mask a while ago, would you like to buy this?”
“Yes?”
“I took it apart to buy it when it came in.”
“Can I?”
“Yes. The boss also gave me permission to buy what I’m going to buy first. Of course, I’ll give you the price that comes out when the sale is taken.”
“Ah…”
‘Can I do that?’ I said to the convenience store part-time girl. The meaning of “Wouldn’t it be okay to remove the mask in advance?”
It was a mask that I had taken out in advance, so he asked me if I could sell it like that.
I don’t have a lot of spare masks at her house, but I still have a few, so I decided not to buy her many masks, just one for her.
“Then I’ll live alone.”
“You can buy all of these… I have another one.”
“Haha, it’s okay. Thank you for just saying. I also have a mask at home.”
Although not many.
There were a few left
Wouldn’t it matter?
It’s because I’m going to walk around the house as little as possible for the time being anyway.
Even if I go out, I have nowhere to go.
It’s not really like that, but I feel like coin karaoke might be hard to get out of once the virus gets in, and if there’s one virus-infected person in a restaurant, it might spread to all around it.
Oh, I saw that too.
10 seconds? I can’t remember the time, but there were cases where I got infected enough to ride the elevator together for a while.
In this situation, it seemed that it would be better to minimize the circulation.
So to me, it is good if there are a lot of disposable masks, but it is not so necessary or to the extent of that.
And, looking at her part-time job at a convenience store, I somehow knew that she seemed to have a heart for me.
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, she treats me differently than other front-line customers every time I come to this convenience store.
I looked at her for a moment and thought of her.
Shall we have sex together today?
It was a choice always given to me, a respectable man, everywhere.
Moreover, wearing a mask made her look prettier for some reason.
A lot of people look like that.
Is it good?
But in my heart, I shook my head.
‘Otherwise, the academy’s self-study room was also closed, but what kind of sex is it from morning? Let’s focus on learning for now.’
With that thought in mind, I left the convenience store holding two bags of groceries in both hands.
“Good bye.”
“Yes, bye!”
I bought daily necessities and returned home quickly.
It’s such a close distance.
More than that, I was more concerned that the academy was closed.
When will it reopen?
If you look on the Internet, it is said that other academies will be closed until this weekend, but according to some theories, it could be delayed further.
Lectures were replaced with online lectures, so students did not have to do anything to interfere with their learning.
After I got home, I packed up all the groceries.
Then, I started studying right away.
I sat down at my desk and opened the book, and I was completely immersed in the book.
‘Let’s see…’
Whether it’s because I was forced to quarantine indoors due to the virus, or if it’s because I’ve been in the study room for scholarship students recently, my home has become a rather unfamiliar place.
That’s why I concentrated all the way from the morning and devoted myself to learning.
In between, we ate cup noodles one by one.
One for lunch and one for dinner.
I bought a lot of things, but anyway, even if I didn’t eat it all today, it doesn’t matter if I put it in the refrigerator and eat it tomorrow, and if I refrigerate it and thaw it again, it doesn’t matter if I leave it a little longer, so there was nothing to eat in such a hurry.
Except for the time to eat one ramen each for lunch and dinner, I devoted myself to studying.
Then it became night.
It was so well focused.
The time to eat ramen was short, and I didn’t do anything other than smoke cigarettes one by one in between. Even though I only studied, the time was very late.
But even after the time was late, I studied so well, so I studied until a little later.
It was a time when I was studying until night with that spirit.
Someone knocked on the iron door of the studio.
– Smart smart
‘Who is it?’
I wanted to be who
