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.
