One day, I was on a bus, on a way to my friend's house. The bus was so crowded and people in the bus started to bump into each other. I got annoyed by the humid air and loud noises. Girls next to me giggled and talked all the way to their destination. So imagine how noisy the bus would have been. The people in the bus were usually students and mostly middle and high-school students. Several bus stops went by and this continued until we came to a place called 'Bank Intersection'. The place was named for four banks' existence at an each intersection road. The bus stopped there and suddenly almost all the people in the bus were gone. This is because lots of private educational institutes gathered at the 'Bank Intersection' and since most Korean students go to these institutes; the place was very well-known.
Looking at kids giggle and talk to each other on their way to private institutes, I could not hide my smile coming from the memory of mine. I was also one of the students who had been lingering around at the place when I was a high-school student. I hated to go to these institutes for it was like a living hell. But I had to go since it was kind of like a duty for many students to take private lessons besides school education. After having dinner at a school cafeteria, my friend and I brushed teeth and got ready to go to institutes at the 'Bank Intersection'. Since the place was not very far from my school, we walked there, talking and having fun together. However, as soon as we got there, all of our energies were drawn out from our bodies and suddenly we felt tired. I went to the institute where they teach both math and science. The place was all white, which reminded me of hospitals. Entering the place, I could hear the bell ringing from the bell tied to a door. The smell of woods struck me every time I walked down the hall. At that time there were only boys' high-schools and girls' high-schools around my town and I was also a student from a girls' high-school. There were many boys in the institute since they teach only math and sciences and because I couldn't see any boys from my school, it was the only place I could encounter boys. For this reason, both awkwardness and shyness surrounded many boys and girls.
The bus stopped at my destination. My friend has been waiting for me at the bus stop. I could not stop thinking of back when I was high-school since I passed the 'Bank Intersection'. It was like a living hell at that time but the place was actually not a hell, rather a very valuable place. It is where I have spent half of my life and the place is full of my teenage memories that I could not have gained otherwise. I plan to go there some time and look back on the time I have spent.
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