‘Ah’ I clicked my tongue. Indifference has ruined the work. I lifted my head and looked up for a moment. I decided to give up.
‘If it were like before, I would have tried something.’
Until yesterday, I kicked a ball alone for exercise, but today I went outside with a badminton club. This is the result of finding the shuttlecock. This is not a common cock. The body is thin and the feathers are divided into two strands. It would be nice to think of the wings of a helicopter. The only difference is that the wings of a helicopter are horizontal, but the feathers I have are vertical.
“Honey, didn’t you see that I bought a badminton cock earlier?”
My wife, who is not particularly interested in exercise, looks like she doesn’t even know such a thing exists and wonders if something like that exists in our house.
Because I was an elementary school teacher, I had to acquire a variety of knowledge and skills, just like a department store displays a variety of products. I did not have deep knowledge like a doctor or a judge, but I had to broadly embrace this, that, and everything. In short, it should serve as the licorice of the pharmacy. At any time and in any place, appropriate answers were needed to answer children’s questions.
It was a long time ago. This is when I went to Insa-dong on Sunday. As I entered the entrance, there was a person holding a badminton ball high in the sky. It is different from normal badminton exercise. Move towards the shuttlecock alone. I fixed my eyes for a moment and watched his movements up close.
“It’s easy.”
He took out a cock and said. You can do it alone and it is less affected by the wind. After hearing his kind words, I held one in my hand.
‘It was here.’
As I was organizing the flower pots on the veranda, I found a marble hidden in a small flower pot. I bought it to use, but somehow I forgot about it for many years.
I always thought I had to be more than an average person. This is to provide children with appropriate knowledge and skills. You can’t learn all of these things at a college of education. You also have to adapt to new things while you are in your current job. As the curriculum changes, new knowledge and new skills are needed. Group training and sometimes individual training are required. In a word, it is self-development.
He is an all-round doctor. When I was young, people in my neighborhood used this term to describe people who were talented in many fields. Would you say you are smart or talented? He is a person who can tinker with many things. This is the person with omnipotent hands that appears in cartoons. I’m not a jack of all trades, but I’ve tried to be something like that.
“You’re an elementary school teacher, right?”
At a gathering of relatives, I gave the transformation paper work I made to the children. This is what adults said when we showed good things every time we had the chance. Just because you’re an elementary school teacher doesn’t mean you can do everything. It depends on whether you are interested or not. It is because of interest that men can make stylish dolls by sewing or knitting and can freely demonstrate various folk games, while women know the rules of baseball, soccer, handball, etc. and can play games.
I took the shuttlecock and went outside. I thought about the movements of a person lifting a shuttlecock in an alley in Insa-dong. I lifted it with all my might. Kok, who was climbing high, drew a diagonal line and flew far away. I raised it again. It rises and falls above my head, but I can’t tell. I don’t know if it’s because it’s vertical and high, unlike when playing badminton. I tried to guess the direction, but I was wrong. This is the fifth. A problem arose. The high cock turned away from me. We headed towards the roof of a tall building. I stood on tiptoe to see where it had landed, but I couldn’t see it.
I only saw the badminton sticks and said to my wife.
“I bought candy for 2,000 won.”
“It’s not even a child, it’s just candy.”
“We didn’t have any children at home, so I did it instead.”
It is a result of carelessness. If I had done it in a larger place, it reminded me of the park square in front of my house. For a moment, I felt empty.
These days, looking for old things is repeated. A few days ago, I took out a gong and a drum. I tried kicking Jegi. I also jumped rope. I also looked into my son’s diary from when he was in the lower grades of elementary school. I ate dinner and packed my bags. I have to go write tomorrow. It’s time to ‘write a letter’ during the essay program. I plan to keep the old sentiment alive and write a handwritten letter to my students.
‘How long has it been since you became a player? You were so angry that you lost to me in a badminton match that you were in tears!’
