I was sitting in the staff room last night, busily completing my class logs and doing some essay editing, and Seyeong and Seunghyeon walked by about 20 minutes before the end of the last class.
The two 9th grade girls popped their heads into the staffroom and said goodbye.
"Why are you leaving early?" I asked, surprised. It's not common for one of the middle-school teachers to release kids early.
The girls laughed and said in strange unison, "We are smart."
They ran off.
I puzzled as to what this meant. At first, I interpreted it to mean that they had somehow cleverly escaped their teacher's clutches. If it had been some other student, this would have been the logical answer. But they are diligent students – this seemed unlikely. Instead, I decided they merely meant they had gotten some exceptionally good score on something, and thus the teacher had allowed them to go early.
[daily log: walking, 7 km]