Many young Korean students are rather enthusiastic about pencil cases. Especially girls. I have a few who are obsessed. They own 10-15 pencil cases, bring 2-3 to class, swap them out, dither over them . . . sometimes the silliness of it becomes rather annoying. Perhaps the worst is when one of the hard plastic cases falls off a student's desk to the floor, causing one's eardrums to shatter, one's heart to go on vacation, and one teacher's patience to be sorely tested. Try two in a row . . . it happens more often than expected/wanted. Let's just say I have earned a lot of good karma.
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