Chapter 280 Private Lessons (2)

• Most days it's just a regular job, a regular place to live. Except most conversations sail over my head and I never turn on my TV because I can't stand most Korean TV shows, even if I can understand them. My Korean ability is intermediate, at best. I can have halting conversations and my grammar is passable some of the time.
• At about ten o'clock that evening, with dinner consumed and with some deep relaxation setting in, my phone buzzed. It was a Kakao notification. Kakao is a messenger service that almost all Koreans start using from birth. It was from Sumin. I don't normally give my number to students but for older ones who take more complex classes, I will sometimes make an exception. Sumin was one of those. Normally the chat was reserved to double checking lessons or canceling and rescheduling.
• Sumin: Teacher what are you doing? k k k k