I've had a post in mind for the last few days.

This is not it. 

I would take the pics and stuff that I wanted to post, and it was going to be cute and such, but right now I am too sick to do anything more than sit comforter-wrapped in my chair with my humidifier turned all the way up and wish my fucking heater worked while I type this.  I'm thinking about knitting, but my head is killing me and I keep coughing, and I'm so thirsty.  The meds the doc gave me made my throat go away, but I'm still not completely better.  I tried listening to music, but that makes my head hurt more, so I think I don't need to stare at my computer for too long either.

Today was a normal day, sortof..  I didn't get to go for waffles with Tulip-teacher cause she had to go to her mother's, but I came home and took a nap.  Classes were normal - I brought some stuff home with me to work on my planning of my time unit.  My afternoon class was observed for a few minutes by Debbie and wong jam nim, and of course Clara wasn't paying attention and the others were nervous because they were being watched.  They did much better when no one else was there, and I loosened up, cause I didn't feel awkward about playing with them or letting them get off topic.  I try to discourage it, but as long as they are speaking English, I don't really care too much. 

Which leads me to the point of my post.  I like having long hair but it tends to get in my way, so I usually put it up in my clip.  The way I do it, it usually fans out a little the the side.  Today for some reason a few skeins decided to stand straight up, but I didn't really bother about it. Until I was in English Land, and Jennifer was asking me about my hair, something to the effect of commenting that it wasn't blonde on top anymore.  So in the midst of this discussion about hair, James pipes up,

"Siobhain-teacher hair, 12 o'clock!" 

I was a bit confused for a second, and then I realized what he was saying.  I'd been teaching them time, and while James is not the smartest kid I have, he likes to use English in creative ways and make connections if it will help him express himself. In another instance of this, I was teaching them 'hay house' for the performance of The Three Little Pigs, and since I had recently taught them "Hey!" as a greeting, James immediately started waving and saying, "Hey house!"  Then I had to explain that the two weren't the same, but I was still impressed by that.  And his comment today made me laugh, even though my voice was still a bit shot. 

And lastly, though I have been a bit lax with these lately, Korean word of the day!
Today's word is

sudu = chicken pox

Lately a lot of kids have been absent because of chicken pox, so when I asked the other children, "Where is everybody?" they explained to me that the other kids have sudu.  Debbie had explained to Douglas and I about it earlier, but it was still interesting to learn the word, and to teach them the English, which they thought was funny. 

Oddly, chicken pox is treated very differently here than in the West.  Debbie was worried about Douglas and I, and told us, "Be careful if you haven't gotten the chicken pox shot." 
"Shot? What shot?"  Apparently here people get vaccinated against chicken pox, so she was worried about us catchin it.  We explained to her that at home, doctors encourage children to get chicken pox when they are younger since it's dangerous when you are an adult.   She seemed very surprised by this, and especially by Douglas' description of 'chicken pox parties' (which might be a British thing, but I was by myself when I got it)  where parents invite other parents to bring their children so that they all get the disease at the same time.  Another interesting tidbit of Korean life.

I think I'm going back to bed now. I'm hungry, but too tired to eat.