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Our Man In Japan

18 July 2006

Please sort it out, please!

When I found out which schools I will be teaching at from August, I found out that my base school would change. It would also mean that the contract for my apartment would have to change from one school to the other. I thought this would be the best opportunity to move out of my noisy, shakey apartment so two months ago I asked if I could change apartments.

Initially I was optomistic after my supervisors and the school offices agreed in principle to me changing apartments. Two months down the line however, nothing concrete seems to have been agreed about where I will move to. Tokamachi seems like teh logical place to be based since it is in the middle of the four schools I wil teach at next year. But because Tsunan Chuto will be my base school, and Tsunan is a different local authority to Tokamachi, getting a teacher's residence flat in Tokamachi might cause some problems with paperwork. To add a bit more pressure, I heard that the contract on my current place has been cancelled an that I might have to move out by the end of July. With my trip home starting next Monday, this would mean having to pack, move out and clean my current apartment by Sunday evening, yet still have nowhere to move my things.

So with no definite place to move to, I'm starting to get stressed with a feeling at the back of my mind that it could all have been avoided. Should I blame the stress on the offices for being so tardy organising a new flat, or am I to blame by asking to move in the first place?

2 Comments:

Ryan said...

Blame it on Al Qaeda... Seems most things are these days...

18 July, 2006 16:12  
MartinMc said...

If I did that, George and Tony will probably send the boys round to force a democracy system on the offices.

Actually, that might be a good idea...

18 July, 2006 17:36  

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