I saw a seventh grade student named Sumin in the lobby. "How are you?" I asked.
"I'm excellent," she answered, in confident English.
"Oh, that's good. Why are you excellent?"
"시험대비 is like a vacation!" She held out her hand, thumb's up, and grinned. [시험대비 means "test prep" – our hagwon closes down the regular middle school classes and offers special test-prep classes for middle schoolers for their upcoming very important public school English tests].
The background is that Sumin is a relatively new student at Karma, and I don't think she's been through the 시험대비 before. And she happens to be a straight-A, 100% average type student – so I suspect the public school English curriculum isn't challenging for her. Therefore the test-prep for this is likely to feel like a vacation.