Chapter 276 – Chapter 276. With a Bowl of Spicy Soft Tofu Stew
As we climbed the stairs, we talked more about the test postponement.
“Isn’t that a bit like it? It’s true that I get nervous when the exam day approaches, but it gets delayed.”
“Did you miss it on the original date?”
“Well, that’s right. We were preparing almost on the original date.”
The exam was postponed.
This was unusual.
We went to Jee-eun’s rooftop house to have a meal together, and while Ji-eun cooked, I paced around her in the kitchen and read the article.
“Ji-eun, where did you read the article?”
“Oh, I was reading the book and only looked at the headline for a second. Could you tell me more while I cook? I’m curious too.”
“Um. Yes.”
While the author was cooking, I talked more about exam acting and looked up articles on my smartphone.
The exam is called a temporary postponement.
So, we haven’t decided on a delayed date yet.
First of all, the announcement says that it will be after May.
It must have been an administrative matter.
Exams are not only prepared by test takers, but also the ministry that administers the test needs time to prepare.
However, if the situation in which the country has come to Corona is such an uproar, it becomes difficult for the person in charge of the exam to prepare.
The situation regarding the current exam schedule is looking more challenging than I thought.
I think so.
When doing something, I think that humans can move more reliably only when there is a ‘purpose’.
For example, my ultimate goal is memories.
I wanted to make a lot of fun memories, so I decided to do a job as a civil servant, where I had a lot of free time and could live a decent life.
On the way to that ultimate goal, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th… Each step has a purpose.
One of the purposes of each stage was to study on the date of the exam.
As such a purpose was suddenly and arbitrarily changed, the current situation could be seen as absurdity itself to me.
It’s like this.
I was preparing for the SAT, but when the date of the SAT was not announced, it felt like it was postponed?
I want something like this
Confusion.
Various emotions could coexist here.
First of all, it was annoying.
It is because the reference date of my purpose has disappeared, and the purpose of learning that is currently in progress has temporarily disappeared.
So, how should I study now?
The exam will be held after May… It could be May 1st, or May 31st, or it could be August 30th, or it could be October 17th.
As you become uncertain about when and when to set study goals, you may have an out-of-the-box schedule.
For now, I think it would be better to set a certain number of dates and act or not, but it seems to be delayed without any countermeasures, which is quite annoying.
Second, it’s a sense of relief, but ironically, it also feels completely opposite to the first one.
Anger is, of course, bigger.
It’s good to set a goal and stick to it.
Because exams are no joke, life is at stake.
But deep inside, there is also a sense of relief. Because of the thought that the impending test is far away.
And what should I say, a kind of kinship? It feels like that too.
I’m not the only one whose exam is delayed now.
Hundreds of thousands of civil service candidates’ exams have all been postponed.
It may be a feeling that is an extension of relief.
Ah, as a similar example, there is such a scene from a game broadcast I watched once before falling asleep.
There was a lag during the game of the official broadcast, and the commentator did it. That said, he can be fair in some ways, as Lek has been caught on both sides.
It seems like that for me too.
I don’t think this is too far out of fair play, because some tests are delayed and some aren’t.
However, there is another problem in this goshichon.
It’s cost of living
In my case, since I am studying after earning quite a bit of living expenses, there is no problem with living expenses being tight.
But not everyone is like me.
If you are studying with your parents’ money, you can live while spending money much better than me.
However, if this is not the case, problems may arise.
If you study with your own money, but you don’t earn and spend it like I did, you only earn the amount of money that’s right on the day of the test.
In cases like this, I think there could be quite a few.
After passing the written test, I prepared for the interview, and I made money in advance because I liked to focus on one thing at a time rather than for such grandiose reasons.
Still, there are good points.
I find it difficult to do many things together.
However, when I do one thing, I tend to do it more effectively than when someone else does it.
Work if work.
If you study, study.
I can’t do both, so I can be pushed by someone who does both.
However, even if I get pushed back when I’m doing the same thing, I’m more confident that when I focus on one thing, I can definitely hit and run.
So far, in most cases, that has been the case.
However, the problem was that studying for the civil service exam was an unfavorable test for me, who had strong short-term concentration and lacked long-term concentration.
Anyway, the exam has been postponed.
Even without a promise.
For now, the only clue is that you can take the exam after May.
I don’t know what month it will be though.
After talking with Song Ji-eun about acting for the exam, and looking for articles while looking at her smartphone, Song Ji-eun finished cooking before she knew it.
“Leave it, I’ll take the prize. Wow, that sounds really good, right?”
“Hohoho! It must be more delicious than it looks~?”
As I carried the table, I spoke to Ji-eun, who came from behind.
“Wow, thank you for preparing such a delicacy, Ji-eun.”
“No, I’m doing it because I want to, what?”
There really were a lot of cases like that.
To me, a handsome man, there have been many cases in which real women from the past until now were very happy just by giving me a lot of things that I did not ask for.
I took Song Ji-eun’s table and entered her room from her kitchen.
The rooftop was a one-room style, but the kitchen and the room were divided.
Even with a room of this size, it can be seen as quite an ace studio in a nearby gosiwon.
This is because when you go to other gosiwons, they divide one of these rooftops into thirds and fourths to share them.
We sat down and had a meal.
“I’ll eat well.”
“Enjoy your meal~.”
Song Ji-eun’s main menu, soft tofu stew, had a very good visual.
Once it was full.
Ji Eun-pyo soft tofu stew with red pepper powder added added meat, oyster, enoki, onion, green onion, and Cheongyang pepper.
Also, soft tofu and eggs are the key, and the amount of soft tofu was quite large, so it was good, and the eggs were also visual enough to say that something was delicious.
I scooped it up properly and ate it with rice.
“Huh… Well…”
It was delicious.
It could be said that it was a taste that did not require a separate trip to the restaurant.
Maybe this will be better
Song Ji-eun is the type of person who worries a lot, so I thought that because I knew that almost any inspector would thoroughly select each and every ingredient, including ingredients, to the point where no other inspector could compare.
It tastes good with good ingredients, so I was pretty quick to eat.
The side dishes were also quite well prepared.
There were braised beef with quail eggs, broccoli with cabbage wraps, pickled garlic and grilled onions, seasoned pumpkin and braised lotus root.
Song Ji-eun’s menu was like eating home-cooked meals.
Song Ji-eun also talked to me while eating.
“Brother, what should I do because the exam is postponed?”
“Mummmm, first of all, I should prepare after thinking about mid-May. After that, if I take the exam, I will have to live more and more unexpectedly. I want to aim for it and try it.”
“You’re trying to prepare as much as possible by starting with the date you can take the exam as soon as possible.”
“It’s like that. Haha, oh, the civil service exam is postponed, what the hell is going on.”
Song Ji-eun has been talking more while eating.
“I think it’s more difficult because you don’t know when the end will come. The number of confirmed cases keeps increasing, right?”
“Right. After the sun goes down like this, when will this sink?”
“Schools are also closed. Until the 23rd.”
“I don’t think it can be processed in there?”
“I see. Will it never end before March 23rd?”
“Uh. I think so too.”
As she told her, so do I.
This is not likely to be resolved in the short term.
But again, it will be difficult to close school forever.
Prior to the civil service exam, it seems that school may be a bigger problem.
Korea has a high education fever.
No matter how many schools are closed, in the end, everyone will take the CSAT together, but then you will have to learn less and take the test.
Disadvantageous
Are the conditions the same?
Since my civil service exam was postponed, other children’s exams are also delayed.
It is because of private education.
Even if academies are advised to close, there are private tutoring.
First of all, you can take tutoring for the civil service exam, but this is not difficult for individual knowledge, but it is a test with a lot of fucking amount. Doesn’t mean that much.
However, college entrance exams are different.
It can be seen that the absolute level of difficulty is remarkably low in the college entrance exam compared to the civil service exam, which increases in difficulty due to the large amount. It may be that the capacity of the influence to what extent.
In conclusion, it means that whether schools are closed or closed, expensive private tutoring is going to be a thing of the past in a small family.
I wouldn’t go to school without that kind of house, so there could be other students playing games at home.
Come to think of it, adults might say that it is more difficult.
Schools are closed for children, but the parents of those children are risking their lives to go to work in a way.
So it seems that there is a saying that father and mother are great.
For the sake of the family, it is because they have a noble mind in a way that is willing to endure their own hard work and sacrifice and prioritize their family’s happiness over their own.
I thought that legal damage prevention measures for adults, such as going to a job like this, are also quite necessary.
Students are better if they don’t go to school, but I thought that parents who are struggling and people who work in society should be kept first.
Just when I was thinking about that, the author asked me.
“Brother, but you said your parents live in Gangnam.”
“Ah.”
“I heard that one more confirmed case was added this time in Gangnam.”
“Really? Hmm… Even if it’s not the case, I’m a bit worried because I’m self-employed. I often run into customers.”
When I thought of my parents and averted my gaze, Jieun spoke to me.
“Brother, how about bringing another box of masks? Give them to your parents.”
“No, you gave me one box anyway. There are a lot of them. I’m going to study at home without the academy study room opening anyway, so I think I can leave a few of them and give them to my parents.”
“I really have a lot of masks? Can I give you another box?”
Haha, it’s really okay. I don’t go out often.”
“Nationally, don’t wear a mask and give it to the patient… I’m going to keep using it.
“Isn’t it enough that you don’t have to use it?”
“Yes. When I saw it, it seemed to be of little use except for the kf94 mask. Did I show it to my brother? The charcoal powder experiment. Cotton and non-woven fabrics just get all the powder, but kf94 is completely blocked. What is that 5 Some say it’s because it’s blocked in layers… And experts in the news also say that cotton masks don’t help block the virus. You have to use a good one.”
As expected, the author seemed to be very interested in health issues.
Anyway, since it’s a good mask, most of my parents give it to me, and since I’m going to study most of the time at home anyway, I thought I’d just put on a few and buy one more at a convenience store.
Originally, it might be better to have a lot of masks if you want to go to the study room at the academy, but as the number of confirmed cases increases, the academy is closed, so if you just study at home, it would be okay not to have a lot of masks.
“Hmm, I think I’ll be able to use what you gave me. More than that, I’m trying not to go out well. Still, since I’ve put on a mask for my parents and the exam has been postponed, I think I’ll come back after seeing them.”
“Then avoid public transportation as much as possible, oppa.”
“Ah. Anyway, the subway route isn’t good here and at my house, so a taxi is better.”
