Caveat: play and eat lunch

A fouth-grade student was coloring in a picture she had drawn. She complained, "Oh, teacher. This is too hard!"

I laughed. "Coloring? Hard? How is that hard? It's like 유치원 [yuchiwon = preschool]!"

She sighed. "Nooo. Not like 유치원. Hard."

"You never did art or coloring in 유치원?"

"No." She shook her head vehemently.

"What did you do in 유치원?" I asked, somewhat surprised.

Without hesitation, she answered, "Play and eat lunch."

Who knew?

I took a picture of the fall sidewalkscape while walking to work this morning – this is looking back down Gangseon-no toward my apartment a few blocks back.

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