Little Yedam was pretending to have a terrible headache. But she wasn't really that sick – every time I looked away, she would resume wiggling and bouncing and avoiding her chair. Her classmate would remind her: "don't you have a headache?" (in Korean). Yedam would resume her agonized chair sprawl.
Then she got excited when she was reading out loud to me, and she began jumping up and down. She hit her head on the windowsill by accident.
"지금 정말 머리 아파! [now my head hurts for real!]" she revealed.