Chapter 33 – Episode 33. Still Misunderstood
When I asked if there were times when the slogan window was not available during the study period, one person raised his hand.
“Me.”
It was Jeong Eun-hee, a woman in her early thirties.
She lowered her hand again and said to Ho-chang, her leader.
“I don’t live near here, so my house is a little far away… It’s a bit like after school classes in the evening because of tea time.”
While talking to Ho-chang, Jung Eun-hee looked at me for a moment.
Her gaze was felt for a moment.
There are many cases like this.
Women try to see me from time to time.
Jeong Eun-hee seemed to make eye contact with me for a moment, and she moved her gaze back to her relief window.
Gu Ho-chang answered Jung Eun-hee.
“Aha, yes. Then you’re saying you can’t do it in the evening~”
Gu Ho-chang agreed, and she shared her words with Jung Eun-hee.
“When do you come to school in the morning?”
“I arrive at least 30 minutes before class every day. Breakfast is possible.”
“Um, that’s right~.”
Gu Ho-chang heard her story from Jung Eun-hee, and then she told everyone.
“Then shall we set a time by majority vote? Lunch or breakfast, one of the two. First, lunch is good. Raise your hand.”
After saying that, Gu Ho-chang raised his hand.
By the way, only the relief window raised her hand.
She was a little funny because she was holding her hand alone.
I looked at the relief window with her hand raised alone and thought.
‘Morning is better, for me.’
I think morning is better.
It’s a bit like using lunch time for study.
4 hours of morning classes.
4 hours of afternoon classes.
Comprehensive class academy classes are tough.
Since it was lunchtime in between, I wanted that time to be free.
If it’s a good day to study during lunchtime.
You can review the morning class, prepare for the afternoon class, or do self-study.
If it’s a day when you don’t study well during lunchtime.
Anyway, since the studio I live in isn’t that far from the academy, I could go back to the studio and have a good night’s sleep.
Honestly, out of the three, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, dinner is the best.
But because of Jung Eun-hee, they said they couldn’t have dinner, so the only thing left was breakfast and lunch…
Of the two, morning is the better.
Gu Ho-chang, a little embarrassed, confirmed the start of the morning study after the lunch option he raised his hand alone.
“Next then, morning before class is good, would you like to raise your hand?”
Except for the relief window, everyone raised their hands here.
Gu Ho-chang made a gesture as if he could stop lowering his hand and finished the confirmation.
“Ah, before class, then, with a majority vote, let’s meet briefly before class. Is there anyone who can sponsor a venue?”
Regarding Hochang’s words, it could be seen that it was a difficult situation for everyone to step forward.
There is no suitable place for the entire study group to gather.
Maybe there are natives here too.
However, most of them are tenants of studio apartments or gosiwons who come from other places to prepare for civil service exams.
That’s why it can be a bit embarrassing when it comes to taking people in groups of six.
The landlord stands out, or people in the same building put complaints on the phone to the landlord.
So, the place is a bit difficult to recruit.
As if everyone seemed to think this way, when no one talked about finding a place, Ho-chang Koo brought up a third place.
“The place is a bit like that, but you’re mostly tenants… Then, how about the 2nd floor of the academy?”
On the second floor of the academy, there are several tables suitable for study.
But I thought it would be a bit difficult.
Because studying is something you do consistently, and there may be days when there are seats available on the second floor of the academy, and there may be days when there are no seats.
That’s why I didn’t talk about studying in an empty classroom.
Like the open table on the 2nd floor of the academy, the empty classroom also has days when there are seats and days when there are no seats.
If you want to study every day, you have to have a seat steadily every day.
I thought about that and said to Gu Ho-chang.
“The 2nd floor is fine too, but it’s a bit irregular. Sometimes there are seats, sometimes there aren’t. The same goes for empty classrooms.”
Hochang agreed with my words.
“Oh, it’s not like that.”
Then, Hochang presented the following plan.
“Then, shall we go to McDonald’s? Why don’t we study while eating muffins or something like that instead of breakfast?”
Ho-chang spoke, and this time Kim Hye-na, a woman who revealed that she was a couple with a man named Park Sang-won, spoke.
“Yes, well, there are people who don’t eat, but it would be nice to eat only those who wish and rent a table.”
That’s right.
It’s a cheap price if you pay for the table, eat a few cheap muffins sold at fast food places in the morning, and rent it.
Study rooms are expensive.
Renting a separate study room would be the best environment, but it would be a waste to rent only the space and pay an hourly rate.
However, the price of coffee in the cafe is a bit expensive.
If you don’t order one coffee per person, you’ll notice it.
But the fast food is better.
Muffins are cheaper than coffee, and even if you don’t order one muffin per person, there’s nothing to say.
I think it’s a good idea to kill two birds with one stone if you have someone to eat breakfast with, someone to eat with, and a place to rent.
Come to think of it, I sometimes saw groups of 4 or more studying at fast food restaurants.
Some of them are eating nothing and doing so.
Originally, there is a notice saying that if you do not buy anything and only study, you will be kicked out of fast food restaurants.
But it doesn’t really drive it.
And we will study while eating.
So it doesn’t really matter.
As Hochang said, I thought it would be better to have someone to buy breakfast from at a fast food restaurant and study there.
Others seemed to have similar thoughts.
I don’t see anyone who seems particularly opposed.
Fast food restaurants always have free seats in the morning.
At lunch time, there are so many people who come to eat burgers that it might not be easy to drag a table.
However, since there are many people who skip breakfast, there are quite a few empty seats compared to lunch.
It seemed that me and others understood that much.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes~.”
“Yeah~, that’s nice~!”
The location was also decided, and the relief window continued to speak additionally.
“I don’t think we need to set aside too much time, and it would be nice to meet 20 minutes before the academy class for the first period. How about it? From Monday to Friday, 5 days a week.”
“Yes.”
“Twenty minutes? Oh, yes. That’s fine.”
Everyone was in favor.
First, set the time and place, and set the learning direction of the study.
After that, the details were also decided.
For example, there was a penalty rule.
In order to prevent absenteeism or tardiness, and to prevent memorizing words by only attending, fines are imposed.
Here is a summary of all the discussions we gathered after class today.
8:40 in the morning.
We meet together at the agreed upon fast food restaurant.
Combine reading comprehension and vocabulary.
Memorize 30 words every day, and write the words in random order on the exercise book.
And after passing it to the person next to you, everyone solves it.
After that, the person in charge of the reading lecture on the day simply gives a lecture.
Give a lecture on one short reading comprehension problem by one person per day, taking turns every morning.
You will have a reading class once every six days.
If you do it quickly, you can do it in 10 minutes, but the person who gives the reading lecture can do it meticulously, and there are people who eat muffins, so I took a little bit of 20 minutes.
The penalty is, once the deposit is kicked up.
Today, each person walks 10,000 won.
Then the relief window checks the money.
Everyone starts with a balance of 10,000 won.
Failure to attend is subject to a fine of 2,000 won.
If you are late, you will be fined 1,000 won.
English words every day No penalty for up to 3 incorrect answers.
If there are more than 4 incorrect answers, a fine of 100 won per wrong answer is applied, and even if there are many mistakes, the maximum fine for incorrect answers is limited to 500 won per day.
A fine of 1,000 won if the person in charge of daily lectures does not prepare. In the spare time, study together.
When the 10,000 won is exhausted, the money is collected again.
The money that is used up is used for part of the expenses for a dinner together after two months.
Of course, there will be more money for dinner than fines, but I decided to commemorate the end of the problem-solving class.
In case of withdrawal from the study, only the remaining money after paying the fine is paid.
Here’s a closer look at the penalty rules…
In a way, it’s simple.
In other words, if you come on time and do everything you have to do, and if you make 3 or fewer mistakes every day out of 30 memorized English words, the penalty will be zero.
After finishing the study meeting like this, I was going to go home without studying today.
After finishing the study meeting, Gu Ho-chang spoke to everyone.
“It’s done now, see you at the study!”
“Yes~!”
“Goodbye~!”
Now that the study meeting is over, it’s time for some free time.
I looked at her for a moment, wondering if I should say something to Yun-kyung.
‘They don’t greet me separately.’
I said hello to everyone, so there is no need to say hello to me separately.
Still, just in case, I tried to look at Yun-kyung.
Her Yun-gyeong had to pack her bags a bit quickly and leave, so it seemed like we’d have to catch her to tell her story.
With that thought in mind, I looked at Yun-gyeong for a while.
Yoon-gyeong is a small-sized beauty with big eyes and quite a cute figure.
Even though she doesn’t dress up because of the nature of the high school village, she has a cute and vintage look because of her basic beauty.
And she has big breasts as a twist.
Perhaps because of her big breasts, when I saw her like this at her academy, she was wearing a bit more baggy than when I saw her when she was working part-time at a potato soup restaurant.
She goes back and forth to the academy to study, but if men sneakily see her breasts here and there, she would be annoyed.
Yoon-gyeong seemed to be trying to prevent such gaze from others.
For Yoon-kyung, in that respect, maybe this time.
She also thought fall or winter would be better to study.
Even though she wears baggy clothes in the summer, she has no choice but to wear the thin material of the clothes itself.
Then naturally, she wouldn’t cover all of her large breasts.
To some extent, I can understand Yoon-kyung’s feeling of baby face glamor.
I’m also her John, who can be said to be in the same position as her.
That is why, as she walks down the street, she receives countless gazes from the opposite sex.
The pouring gaze is sometimes good, but at other times it is burdensome.
As I was thinking about those things, I even thought about talking to Yun-kyung about her.
‘Shall I talk to Yun-kyung?’
She thought for a moment.
However, since we met at such an unprepared timing, it was a bit difficult for me to say anything right away with Yun-gyeong, and I thought I would have to think about her.
I guess I’ll have to catch her on her way home from her academy and give her an explanation starting with ‘those panties aren’t the panties I meant’.
But Yoon-Kyung-eun, could it be that she despises me after seeing me before?
Last time she ran away from me, maybe she thinks of me this way.
‘Handsome bastard, worth your face. Sleeping with girls countless times and collecting panties? Aren’t you doing interior decoration with women’s panties all over the walls of the studio?’ Or…
Hmm… This has gone too far
I don’t think Yoon-gyeong still thinks of me to that extent.
…
Anyway, I thought it would be good to talk next time.
‘If it’s the same study, I’ll see you every day except for the weekend. Then there is a chance that misunderstandings will be resolved. And now, studying is my priority.’
With that thought in mind, I decided to go upstairs again.
It was to go to self-study.
Several self-study rooms are open.
Among them, I decided to do self-study in the largest classroom on the 4th floor.
Koo Ho-chang and I leave the empty lecture hall where we gathered for the study meeting and wave our hands comfortably in front of the door.
“Go~.”
“Oh, see you tomorrow!”
Gu Ho-chang went home, and I went back to the self-study room for the next study.
I went to the 4th floor.
Then, open the door and enter.
The scenery is quite different from daytime.
Outside the darkened window, in contrast, the large lecture hall is very brightly lit.
As it is the largest lecture room, you will feel that it is spacious the moment you enter it, but there are not that many people who keep their seats and study.
It must be because it is still dinner time.
I’m thinking of having a little late dinner after studying a little more after the study meeting, so even so…
Most of them will come after dinner and study in the self-study room.
Also, there are places where only seats are reserved for books and bags.
Perhaps they are thinking of coming over for dinner and studying.
Of course, not all of them return to their seats after dinner.
There are quite a few people who reserve a seat, then come back after a while, pack their bags and go home again.
That’s why PC cafes and bars near the academy exploded.
Either way, I’m determined to fight myself.
I go all the way in and focus on learning from a seat close to the window.
The moment I sit down again, pull the chair and open the bookshelf, and I make a promise again.
‘Now, let’s run.’
Studying civil servants also makes me think that there is no end to doing it.
Even just reviewing everything you have learned today can be overwhelming for the rest of the evening.
I also think that I have studied a bit only when I have digested the daily amount of study.
If I go home and play with the thought that just taking academy classes is tiring, I think my growth will be slow.
Because there will be some things you learned during the day, but there will also be new things you didn’t know, and the things you knew will be reviewed, so there may be some amount that can be transferred to long-term memory, but the first time you see it is quickly forgotten.
However, if you finish studying for the day just because you are tired of attending academy classes, a certain amount will be forgotten without being absorbed.
As the forgotten things pile up, the amount of learning again will pile up.
If so, it may become increasingly difficult to pass.
So, I study with the thought that learning right now can save me such trouble in the future.
‘Hmm…’
I focused on the civil service exam as much as possible.
