Today at school, the head Chinese teacher, Simon, came in to my classroom at 9:05 and said, "Nick, come find me on the third floor at 9:15." I went upstairs and found him sitting with 3 other foreign teachers on the roof hanging out. I was a little confused so asked what was going and they began to explain it to me.
The school was notified that the government department over education was coming to visit our kindergarten today. The problem wasn't the teachers but the fact that the school only paid the government based on having 3 international classes, not the 8 that they have. The problem with this is that they have to pay a lot of money for each international class they have. So they decided to hide a couple of us on the roof while the maintenance people went around and took the name plates off the classrooms and everything else that said international on it.
We hung out on the roof until lunch time because they never came...surprise, surprise. They were supposed to be there at 10:00 but we were told they were held up at another school before ours so instead of working late, they called it a day. That's the way it seems to work.
Needless to say, this Friday was an extremely easy day. Great Friday. I got to know all of the teachers who have been there longer than me so it was nice. There is one from Canada, India, Australia and South Africa. I'm one of the three new teachers; one's from Denmark (but went to high school in England) and the other's from New Mexico. There was another teacher from America who actually went to Emory University and graduated a year after me but he didn't work out. He's never taught or worked with kids before so he just wasn't cut out for a kindergarten. Oh well...great day.
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