Come Away with Me

Heartfelt Thanks

It's the summer holidays now. There are no students and no classes and yet I have to be here till the very last day my contract expires. Sounds like a drat huh. Welcome to Japan!

I heard it wasn't like this in the past. Some ALTs somewhere must had taken advantage of the situation to cause the management to enforce stricter measures, which include coming to 'work' even when there wasn't really any work. We are of course allow to offset using our leaves but as I had used up mine for all the travelling throughout the past year, I have to appear at Narao JHs everyday still.

But oh well, not that I mind actually. It beats staying at home in the sweltering afternoon,with boring tv programs and no access to the outside world. At school at least there is free internet not to mention air-con. But still you might ask what do I do to keep myself occupy these days?

It may not be hard to guess from the frequency that this blog's being updated that I've been spending quite a bit of time blogging about my last few weeks on the island, penning down the various thoughts and emotions that has been going on inside me during this period of time. When I am not writing, I spent the rest of the time chatting with some teachers in the staff room, writing farewell notes and preparing various parting gifts for people who had been a big part of my life here on this island.

By parting gifts, they are really photo collages that I've been making all these while of some of my travel pictures. I thought long and hard on what I can give to these folks that are meaningful and without having to burn a whole in the pocket. There is also the slight problem of having limited shops here. It dawned upon me eventually to just work with what I have and these are some results of my several days of labour.

For Hanasaki sensei & Teruko san,

posted by テレサ @ 2:15 PM