what a loon
I don't even know where to start. I haven't posted this yet because on Thursday and Friday I was at the JET Midyear Conference with my Japanese English teacher. (I guess I should post about that later... it was a great forum to discuss problems and techniques with team teaching that just can't be comfortably discussed in the environment of a school teachers' room.)
Anyway, this post is about the woman who was the other JET in my town. Yes, WAS. She just took off, left, fled, broke her contract and chickened out. At first I thought it was just a rumor, as she's given to somewhat impulsive behavior, like the time she arranged a trip to Thailand and then changed her mind. Or the time she went on a selling spree to "save money for a trip to Israel". Uh huh.
Well anyway, after the conference she and a friend took off for Tokyo. OK, I figured, take a weekend in the big city, makes a bit of sense. Except that she had a flight scheduled to go back on Wednesday. Not a word of this to me; the word leaked out through her friend and I didn't catch word of it until she'd flown the coop.
I'm not too inconvenienced by this, except for the fact that, since she had sold me my car a month or so ago, she had agreed to buy it back in spring. I got a decent deal, but now I have to find another buyer for it. But the real guy getting screwed is George from the next town. He had lent her a kerosene heater and a small amount of cash. Now he has to convince her employer to let him into her apartment to get his stuff back.
Man, what a psycho. Guess I'm on my own in Nakaniida now.
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Crazy, Jeff. I hope everything works out.
On a random side note, one of my former TLU roomies will be visiting Tokyo for about a month this summer...I was wondering if I could give her your email so she send you a few questions she has about visiting Japan? If you could email me back at my gmail account that I filled out when I left this comment, that would be great (I don't know your email address.)
Thanks!
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:33 pm
From what country was this person? What does her school do now? Are there any consequences for her (monetarily or otherwise)? Does this happen often? She must have been miserable (or crazy) to not stick out her contract. How sad. And yes, we do want to hear about the JET conference.
January 24th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Well, at least she left and didn't stay there through whatever delusions she was having, and end up shooting the school into pieces or something. That would be worse by far xD
January 24th, 2006 at 8:10 am
Was this the same one who told you she didn't care if the students learned anything because she wouldn't be there anyway, and griped that they weren't learning English fast enough?