My voice is still gone and I feel SUPER yucky! If I'm not better tomorrow, I'll go back to the doctor after school.

This morning there was SO MUCH NOISE coming from the apartment above me. I was thinking, what are they doing in there, moving the furniture??? Then when I went outside to go to work, I saw a semi truck with a ladder stretched up to the window of that apartment. They moved out.

The kids were so funny today. Since I was gone for the first part of Tuesday, today's kids hadn't seen me using the microphone. "Teacher, what's that?" they all asked.

"Mic-a," I said.

"ahhhh."

So curious and cute :) It sounded pretty pathetic when I'd whisper into the mic. One 3rd grader (English name is Dean, he cracks me up) said, "Danielle, don't talk." Ha!

At lunch, Dean sat next to me. He is one of our stronger English speakers. He kept asking me questions about Korean words, trying to teach me. Hi mother was volunteering in the cafeteria, and she came over and told him to stop bothering me lol. I didn't mind, but I wanted him to obey his mom. He was quiet for about 5 minutes, then turned to me again and was back at it with the Korean teaching. The kids love to hear me try to speak Korean - they get a good laugh at my expense :)

There was another observation class today. All the teachers had to watch the new 3rd grade homeroom teacher do a social studies lesson. I didn't understand what was happening, but laughed much of the time. The kids are so goofy! In that class there are two little boys who make me laugh so hard. At the beginning of the semester I asked them their names. One of them said, "I'm Obama," and the other said, "Michael Jackson." Marrisa didn't think this was too humorous, but I really couldn't control my laughter. They are the class clowns, and whenever they are acting up I have to use every bit of self control I can muster not to say, 'Hey! Obama; Michael... cool it!'

For some reason the kids are just now noticing the diamond ring I've been wearing since I returned here in January. "Couple ring? Namjachingo?" they ask.

"No," I tell them. "Husband." I then point to myself and say, "wife." Usually they still ask the first questions again... so I say, "married."

Blank stares.

"Dun-dun-du-dun, du-dun-du-dun..."

Then comes the freak out moment. Now they understand I am married. Usually it's announced by one of the louder boys to the entire class... All I can hear is "blahblahMARRIEDUHblahblahTANYEUL(my name)blahblah." Can't wait to see their reaction when they actually meet Jason. So cute.