Tomorrow, Thursday, is a holiday in Korea. I get the day off from school because bears 15,000 years ago wanted to be human so they prayed to the gods. Then they had babies and their babies were humans and thus Korea was founded.
It's National Foundation Day. Or roughly translated, The Day the Heavens Opened Korea.
I will spend the day not sleeping in. Sleeping in the afternoon, maybe, and writing evaluations for students. Constant praise that they don't deserve mostly. It's hard to write for the kids who actually deserve praise because I want to be realistic and the ones who deserve praise are mostly those who try really hard but maybe aren't the best. But in order for their praise to stand out I have to exaggerate their accomplishment like I do with those other kids, which means giving them unearned compliments and not an accurate bead on where they are skill-wise and how far they've come since the last evaluation. Writing "You're the absolute best at everything! And yet you always manage to push beyond the limits of what's possible" when really I mean is just "You try very hard and your efforts continue even after mistakes. You try to learn from them but sometimes you still say 'Why' for 'What'. You do all your homework and your handwriting has improved a lot as has your vocabulary but sometimes you still get stuck saying the same phrases for everything. Try to experiment more. You're a good student to have because you don't give me many headaches."
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