Time Mansour - Chapter 129



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Episode 129: The days when romance lingered

“Thank you for your effort.”

I finished my first class.

no.

To be exact, I messed up my first class.

I didn’t properly understand the students’ level. Not only that, but because I had to convey the message through an interpreter, the flow of the lecture was interrupted too often. Of course, there were other reasons as well.

No matter what.

The biggest problem was me.

“You… didn’t you say you gave some lectures before?”

“It was such a long time ago that I remember it···”

“What do you mean a long time ago? It hasn’t even been a year.”

Siriu looked at me as if she was dumbfounded. Even if I had ten mouths, I had nothing to say. Feeling awkward for no reason, I made eye contact with the ground.

Actually, I prepared the class with the same mindset as Siriu. I taught children before, so I thought it wouldn’t be difficult. Because of that complacent mindset, I neglected to prepare for the class.

“Today was really… a mess.”

The word mess came out of my mouth without me knowing.

The gap between real time and my time was too big.

I overlooked how much time had passed.

As I continued to do complicated code in my sister’s room, I completely forgot how to explain it easily to the kids.

“I guess I need to prepare for class from now on.”

“Is that all? Don’t feel too burdened.”

“It’s not that I feel burdened, I just feel a little sorry towards the kids.”

I explained it using difficult IT terms.

On the other hand, the interpreter is not familiar with IT terms,

During the nearly hour-long class, my words were not conveyed properly.

So everyone was kind of bored. Well, I understand. It was boring because you didn’t know what was being said.

the other side.

This English teacher’s class was different. He explained things in a way that the kids could understand, and most importantly, he was able to communicate with the kids to some extent.

“But this director teaches as if he can communicate… Did he learn how to speak separately?”

“No, that’s not it. Since you’ve been here for a few days, I think you should be able to understand simple words.”

What, you just heard it?

At those words, Siriu looked at the director with her mouth open.

My expression wasn’t much different.

Siriu turns her head and looks at me with that same expression.

“Can you even hear simple words?”

“Can you hear me?”

“That’s nonsense,” he said, shaking his head from side to side several times as he answered.

When we were overly impressed, the director scratched his head in embarrassment.

“I’m a bit quick at learning languages.”

“Isn’t it really that great?”

Siriu raised her thumbs with both hands.

Then he looks at me again.

“He seemed really smart when he was working, but he doesn’t seem that smart here.”

I tried to ignore him and shake off his shoes, as he was trying to pick a fight by smiling and talking like that.

To enter the room, you rub your mud-covered shoes on the floor.

“Why? Are you going in already?”

“A dumb person like me should study.”

“What are you studying?”

“I’m going to check the kids’ curriculum again. And I’m going to look up some English words. Easy words.”

“You came all the way here?”

“I didn’t like class at all today.”

I told this director exactly what I told Sirius.

He closed the door, leaving Director Lee and Siriu behind, looking so regretful.

When I returned to my room, I looked for the teaching materials I had previously prepared.

I quickly looked through the coding textbook for kids and did some simulations on my own to figure out how to explain it.

I turned on the English dictionary and looked up the word. I changed the IT terminology back to easy words that I could understand.

I’m not as smart as this manager. I have no choice but to put in the time and effort.

It was a kind of know-how for living with a bad head.

I was just fiddling around with the English dictionary and watching a few lecture videos.

“I guess I got too used to my sister’s room without even realizing it.”

Before I knew it, the sun was setting outside the window. I hadn’t done anything, but quite a bit of time had already passed.

“··· This is driving me crazy. We need to come up with a plan to turn the donation app into a global service.”

But there’s not much time. I already miss my sister’s room.

Because nothing takes up as much time as organizing your thoughts.

I rested my chin on my hand and stared at the monitor screen, lost in thought.

If you are converting your donation app into a global service, the first thing you need to do is promote it. After all, you will be able to increase users only if you do a good job of marketing.

“If CEO Lee helps like Director Lee said, things will be a bit easier.”

Aside from Red Blue, there were three or four more idol groups active globally.

And that wasn’t all.

Fan community platform. Ten million monthly users. One hundred million downloads.

The most used application among applications made by domestic companies.

This is an app that tens of millions of people view per month just by displaying one banner.

So, if only this representative could help, there would be no stronger ally than him.

I don’t think they’ll help you for free.

There must be something to give.

He was a difficult person to deal with, so it wasn’t easy to make the first contact.

But this is something I need to talk about when I return to Korea. It’s not something that can be resolved right away.

“But there is another problem.”

It’s money. Money. To be exact, card fees. It’s only a few percent, but I couldn’t afford all the card fees of people all over the world.

Of course, there is a way to deduct the card fee from the sponsor’s donation and deliver it.

If possible, I wanted to make sure that the money I donated with good intentions was passed on to those in need.

If you don’t find this solution.

It was obvious that trying to gather light would only lead to more debt.

Oh my.

The sighs I exhaled one after another piled up in the air.

Now that I think about it, I… am working even though I’m on vacation.

I turned my head to look outside, and the beautiful scenery outside the window stared at me as if teasing me.

“Okay. Okay. Let’s go back and think about the donation app.”

If you go back to your sister’s room, there will be plenty of time to think.

After making up my mind like that, I opened the door and went out.

I saw this director and Siriu talking in the living room.

“Huh? You’re out? That’s good timing.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“Let’s talk as we go.”

Two people got up from their seats as if they had been waiting for me to come out.

He dragged me somewhere without any explanation.

Walk around the yard and through the neighborhood alleys.

As I walked, I noticed piles of garbage piled up like mountains in front of each house.

“But why is the trash piled up?”

“That’s because it’s a surveillance period right now.”

“What surveillance?”

“Because you can’t light a fire in March.”

“Huh? Why?”

I didn’t understand what Siriu was saying.

He looked at Siriu with his head tilted at an angle.

“Because of the fine dust. The wind doesn’t blow, and when we burn trash, the air quality gets worse.”

“Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You’re just going to burn the trash in your own yard?”

“That’s right. We can’t come all the way here to collect the trash. Everyone just burns it themselves.”

Even in the countryside, there is still trash that doesn’t rot.

Plastic bags, plastic bottles, boxes, and other miscellaneous trash were piled up like a mountain.

“But really. Where are you going now?”

“Oh, I was just going to the nearby supermarket.”

“Where is it?”

“It’s about 30 minutes down.”

Sirius pointed down the hill.

Why are you suddenly going to the supermarket···?

Let’s ask the manager what happened.

“I wanted to have a beer, but they said there was no one there. No. How could there be no beer in the fridge?”

“People in tropical regions don’t drink alcohol like this manager.”

“What do you mean, like me? If someone heard me, they’d think I was an alcoholic. Honestly, Youngjun drinks more often.”

So, I walked along, joking around with the director.

I naturally thought we would go to the parking lot.

But Siriu headed to an unfamiliar place.

I went into the yard of a nearby resident.

and.

“huh?”

Stopped in front of a motorcycle.

There were two scooters parked in front of me.

“Here. I brought the keys. Two is enough? Or should I borrow one more?”

“Wait a minute… what about the car?”

“Lampang just went down to the city for some business. He doesn’t have a car right now.”

Lampang is an interpreter. That doesn’t matter. What really matters is that I don’t have a car right now.

Siri looked at me while holding the scooter key. She kept giving me glances as if asking why I wasn’t answering it.

“I··· don’t have a driver’s license.”

I answered, scratching my head.

“It’s okay. The police won’t catch you here anyway. Look. Look over there. There are kids riding around too.”

At that very moment, a boy as big as Junwoo passed by on a motorcycle.

“They know how to ride, so they ride. I said I can’t ride.”

“You’ve never ridden one before?”

“Of course. I said I don’t have a license.”

He kept repeating the same thing. At this level, I thought I would understand.

“It’s okay. But you’ve probably ridden a bike before. It’s just like a bike.”

He kept pushing the key towards me, so I took it first.

I looked at the director quietly.

“I don’t like it. I don’t know how to ride it either.”

“It’s super easy. It’s exactly like riding a bike.”

I relayed exactly what Sirius had said to the serious-faced director.

“··· I can’t even ride a bicycle.”

This manager says the same thing to me.

**

Rattling.

The motorcycle rolled down the hill.

Every time the scooter shook, the shock from the shock absorber was transmitted directly to my butt.

“Youngjun, please go back a little. It’s too narrow.”

“If you go further back, it’s empty space. I’m almost asleep right now.”

He got on the scooter in a posture that was almost like sitting.

Three people, that is.

I have to go like this for 30 minutes?

“Do all the people here ride motorcycles?”

“As you can see, the road is narrow so it’s much better than a car.”

“No. It’s not better at all?”

“That’s because there are three of us riding.”

The moment Siriu speaks.

A scooter passed by us.

“Excuse me? There are five people on that one?”

“Oh… I see.”

Sirius pretends to be a country person, but he actually lived in the city. He even studied abroad in the US before his family went bankrupt.

“Does the representative only have one car?”

“Then, there are only four people coming, and you’re bringing two cars?”

“Oh my. Both of you, please don’t move. I told you it’s too narrow. When you come back later, Youngjun, I’ll ride in the back.”

The manager was yelling loudly. He wasn’t really angry, but the wind made it hard to hear, so they were talking to each other while cursing at each other.

To the point where a stranger would think they were fighting.

Raise your voice.

“But didn’t you ride a bike when you were young?”

“Oh, I haven’t tried it. It’s not just me, this manager hasn’t tried it either.”

“I heard you had a really hard time when you were young. Then you probably didn’t even have a car at home.”

I was slightly taken aback by Siriu’s words.

I don’t know if it’s a cultural difference or a generational difference.

I guess our thoughts were a little different.

“That’s why I haven’t ridden one. It’s expensive. Do you think your ancestors bought you a bike? No. Seriously, when I was a kid…”

I was lost in my memories without even realizing it.

In those days, kids who rode bicycles were considered delinquents.

Because no child ever bought a bicycle with money.

The bike was expensive, and it wasn’t mine anyway.

First generation shared bikes. I grew up seeing them firsthand. So kids like me who are scared couldn’t even think about riding a bike.

And that’s not all.

Shared allowance. Shared shoes and bags. Shared comic books. Shared game consoles.

Seriously.

It was a time of romance and affection.

It was a beautiful time when we shared and gave to each other without saying what was yours or mine.