Goodbye’s: Round 1
So today was my last day for teaching my Thursday classes. While I loved 2 out of 3 of them, I am happy to be one step closer to heading home. The classes themselves went fine. I planned nothing special and just went about my business.
The kids however didn’t let me off the hook so easily. Today is the first of what will probably be a long week of accepting bullshit crafts from the kids that I will have a hard time not being happy about. Yes, I am sad to say goodbye to the kids. Yes, I am really happy that they made a goodbye card for me. No, I don’t know if I’ll be bringing 1,000 awful drawings of Pikachu that say, “Thank you Lian,” home.
Tomorrow is our official going away party. We are going to eat at the owner’s Italian restaurant. It will be delicious, filling, tear-filled (Thanks to Megan), and followed up by video games. I’m pretty excited.
The pig flu made it to Japan and has caused Osaka to shut down all of their public schools. Japan, responding in the most fear-ridden, foolish way, has encouraged the following policies to be put into place. The new teachers will not be allowed to teach at Kindergartens for one week. It is a quarantine of sorts. See, the flu is already in Japan, but they aren’t worried about Japanese people spreading it, just foreigners. So the new teachers have to hang out a week without a fever, pay, or training because of the pig flu.
Furthermore, if the flu comes to Gifu and the Kindergartens shut down (Which they would), then nobody will be getting paid for that duration of time. We won’t be working, so we won’t be getting paid.
Thankfully not a damn bit about the pig flu has any bearing on Megan and I and we are happy to be getting away from the hysteria.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 am by rl