There is a fifth-grade girl named Hye-min in my ED1-M cohort. A smart girl, but more impressively, she's quite "academically motivated." Yesterday, there was the following conversation.
We were doing an exercise in class, basically a kind of rudimentary, note-taking and/or summary effort from a bit of example writing.
Hye-min: "This is very boring."
Teacher: "I know."
Hye-min: "That makes me angry!"
Teacher: "I see."
Hye-min: "So then, I work really, really hard."
Teacher: "Hm. Because you're angry?"
Hye-min: nods.
Teacher: "So that's why you're such a good student."
Hye-min: "I know."
It wasn't exactly funny – it was more, just… insightful.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]