Of farewells, reunions and more farewells..... and to drastic measures

So .. seeing as it's been like ... a month almost since i last posted... there's naturally a fair bit that's been happening.

1/Joanna quitting Jes Island
2/Email to Jay
3/Gabe comes to Korea
4/Meetings and the coming of Dave.....



1/

So Joanna our much beloved head teacher, decided to quit after a heated exchange with our vice-principal...... we were all exceptionally sad that this wonderful person would no longer be working with us, protecting us and caring for us...

So we had to send her off nicely :) with a coupla beers :P


then a couple more.....



then a couple more after that.... :P



27 bottles in total were... imbibed :P

and this was only on the friday before she left :P
but then we didn't drink much during the dinner the following (her last) friday at the school
here's some pics..




There's not much to say really except that Joanna will be (and is) sorely missed from the school :(






more pics here
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=83304&l=d3222&id=728985900

2/

So after... probably WAAAY too long... i finally got the nerve together to compile a complete list of things that i felt contributed to Jes Island being an unstisfactory workplace.... i'd spent the preceeding couple of days asking colleagues at work what they didn't like.... the email ended up being abotu 2 and a half pages long..... and it ellicited a short.. but promising reply, that he would look into the problems and try and solve them......

more about this in part 4




3/

So Gabriel Lai.... my friend from high school and my best friend in year 8 came to Korea to visit a friend from Uni, but we end up hanging out anyway. I must say, it would seem that the intervening years made no difference whatsoever and damn.. did we party hard.... almost every single day basically. (i also want to say thank you here, to a certain person for her patience during this period.... and before that.... and after ......)









it was... intense to say the least :P

but i wanted to thank him for the time he spent here, as well as blame him for the lack of sleep I've had this past week and a half. But mostly i wanted to be thankful for being able to renew such an old friendship with him. So much has changed, yet so much has remained the same.....

Thank you for your words

*** for more pictures go to Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=83305&l=fbe7e&id=728985900
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=83307&l=9a032&id=728985900


5/

So, as a result of the email i sent it turns out that the CEO did do something... quite a big something.....
D had been working with the main company for several years now and the CEO had been wanting to get him back to Korea for quite some time and D was on the way to Korea for a different job when the CEO sent him a copy of the giant email i wrote and told him that if he was cool with it, his new job would be to 'fix' the place until the ELTs were happy with working there.
So I've now been assigned as the spokesperson for the elementary teachers and Dan, my twin in the kindergarten department... has been assigned spokesperson for his section....

Dan's meeting is tomorrow and mine is Thursday night....
so we'll see how things go....