More surprises

I walked into work yesterday afternoon and the first thing my boss said to me was, “Pat left.”  There was a hint of tangible shock, disbelief, and despair in her voice as she explained that she had just received a phone call from Pat who was getting on a bus  for the airport at that moment.   Pat is the other full time employee here at our school who last week announced that she would be leaving at the end of November because of back problems.  She was scheduled to leave a week from today, on the 29th of November, but apparently her back became so painful that she couldn’t last even that long.   Her mother bought her a plane ticket, and she left.  

For us, this means that we have to try to cover as much of Pat’s work load as we can while our boss looks for another teacher.  Melissa is at the bilingual kindergarten right now with Callan and I am heading off to another kindergarten in about twenty minutes.  Despite the reality of the situation we don’t really feel that stressed.  There is only so much we can do as it is, and we know our boss needs the help, so we will do all that we can to make things go well for them.  In the mean time if anyone reads this and knows anyone who would like to come to Japan, even for a short time, and teach English please let us know.