I am in hospital again.
Even after a fortnight of operation, I wasn't recovering as fast as I should and since yesterday was developing stranger pains at and near the operation site. We decided to get checked up. The doctor found infection and got me immediately admitted for next four days to monitor and heal the infection, failing which I might have to undergo another operation!
In the morning, when there was no sign of this development anywhere on the horizon, I rang the school just to find out about some holidays next week. Mr picked up the phone and couldn't understand the simple English that I wanted to talk to Mk. After some struggle, she harped on the word Mk and handed the phone to Mks.
He was happy to hear from me. He informed me that the next whole week is a holiday. And then he informed me further:
"Hey, I have news for you. Stfn is not leaving the school, finally."
"What?" I jumped happily. "That's a good news for the school." I exclaimed.
"No, it's not." He snorted disdainfully." I am pissed off that she is staying. It is not funny that she has been telling everyone that she was quitting only to declare on her farewell day that she is after all not quitting. She is a horrid creature."
I had completely forgotten about this situation between Mks and Stfn...
I obtained Stf's number from him so that I could talk to her about my leave situation and then rang her twice but she didn't pick up the phone. Half an hour later, she called me back. When she heard my voice on phone she cried in complete surprise,
"You? Are you alive?"
She was astounded to know why I was absent since so many days, and I was doubly so to know she didn't know it although the whole school did. In fact she had been believing that either I had gone to India or just left. Talk about management!
I told her everything and she told me in return that Stfn has been coaxed to stay and now probably both Ndn and Mk also won't leave the school as planned.
Then I went to the hospital and got admitted so unexpectedly.
ASy rang me.
She told me yesterday they had a staff meeting which was addressed by Chr, who is Stf's personal acquaintance and friend and who played the part of St. Nikolaus so memorably. He talked or rather counselled all the teachers as to how they should rise above their personal lives in order to be dedicated teachers and how the whole school is a brand new place now without Mz and My. He requested the staff to come to him if they have a problem.
Asy was growing angrier every minute. She told him that there is no problems within the staff and everybody is very nice and supportive for each other but it is the management that is at fault; for example the management discusses her career decisions with everyone except her and all efforts on her part are foiled for a direct conversation.
Next Izb opened up. She started telling everybody in tears how Stf has forced one new Greek teacher to live with her in her single room apartment, without her consent. She doesn't find the experience of being forced to share her single room with someone she doesn't know, very pleasant; the worst part is, that roommate in question, being a new foreigner in this country, plagues her with nonstop questions about the country, city as well as the school which gives her a lot of stress and makes her feel as if she is still working in school instead of relaxing at home. She started crying.
I heard through Asy that Mks is up to his tricks again. He tries to slop his work on other's shoulders on one excuse or the other. He often requests/ demands Asy to clean his wagon( on which we load children's food and utensils and have to clean up after eating) and overtake his duty in the sleeping room when he has to go for break. Technically, he has his break time later but he often used to do the same thing with me when my sleeping room was in the science lab, making me do almost double work every single day. Asy, didn't like it and she straight away told him that this was his job and he should do it rather than asking her everyday to do so.
Now, I know, Mks will never like this reply. He is sure to go to Stf and complain against Stf that Asy is so bad that she doesn't work.
Ah, yes. In the morning Mks had told me how upset he was to know that Stfn is not leaving. In the afternoon however, barely two hours later, he went up to Stfn and said he wanted to apologize for believing some other teachers who kept saying that she was a bad teacher. He has now realised that she is a very good teacher and he is glad that she is staying. And then he kept talking to her in private for whole one hour!
I hope he wasn't telling Stfn that it was I who had been telling him that she was a bad teacher!
Even after a fortnight of operation, I wasn't recovering as fast as I should and since yesterday was developing stranger pains at and near the operation site. We decided to get checked up. The doctor found infection and got me immediately admitted for next four days to monitor and heal the infection, failing which I might have to undergo another operation!
In the morning, when there was no sign of this development anywhere on the horizon, I rang the school just to find out about some holidays next week. Mr picked up the phone and couldn't understand the simple English that I wanted to talk to Mk. After some struggle, she harped on the word Mk and handed the phone to Mks.
He was happy to hear from me. He informed me that the next whole week is a holiday. And then he informed me further:
"Hey, I have news for you. Stfn is not leaving the school, finally."
"What?" I jumped happily. "That's a good news for the school." I exclaimed.
"No, it's not." He snorted disdainfully." I am pissed off that she is staying. It is not funny that she has been telling everyone that she was quitting only to declare on her farewell day that she is after all not quitting. She is a horrid creature."
I had completely forgotten about this situation between Mks and Stfn...
I obtained Stf's number from him so that I could talk to her about my leave situation and then rang her twice but she didn't pick up the phone. Half an hour later, she called me back. When she heard my voice on phone she cried in complete surprise,
"You? Are you alive?"
She was astounded to know why I was absent since so many days, and I was doubly so to know she didn't know it although the whole school did. In fact she had been believing that either I had gone to India or just left. Talk about management!
I told her everything and she told me in return that Stfn has been coaxed to stay and now probably both Ndn and Mk also won't leave the school as planned.
Then I went to the hospital and got admitted so unexpectedly.
ASy rang me.
She told me yesterday they had a staff meeting which was addressed by Chr, who is Stf's personal acquaintance and friend and who played the part of St. Nikolaus so memorably. He talked or rather counselled all the teachers as to how they should rise above their personal lives in order to be dedicated teachers and how the whole school is a brand new place now without Mz and My. He requested the staff to come to him if they have a problem.
Asy was growing angrier every minute. She told him that there is no problems within the staff and everybody is very nice and supportive for each other but it is the management that is at fault; for example the management discusses her career decisions with everyone except her and all efforts on her part are foiled for a direct conversation.
Next Izb opened up. She started telling everybody in tears how Stf has forced one new Greek teacher to live with her in her single room apartment, without her consent. She doesn't find the experience of being forced to share her single room with someone she doesn't know, very pleasant; the worst part is, that roommate in question, being a new foreigner in this country, plagues her with nonstop questions about the country, city as well as the school which gives her a lot of stress and makes her feel as if she is still working in school instead of relaxing at home. She started crying.
I heard through Asy that Mks is up to his tricks again. He tries to slop his work on other's shoulders on one excuse or the other. He often requests/ demands Asy to clean his wagon( on which we load children's food and utensils and have to clean up after eating) and overtake his duty in the sleeping room when he has to go for break. Technically, he has his break time later but he often used to do the same thing with me when my sleeping room was in the science lab, making me do almost double work every single day. Asy, didn't like it and she straight away told him that this was his job and he should do it rather than asking her everyday to do so.
Now, I know, Mks will never like this reply. He is sure to go to Stf and complain against Stf that Asy is so bad that she doesn't work.
Ah, yes. In the morning Mks had told me how upset he was to know that Stfn is not leaving. In the afternoon however, barely two hours later, he went up to Stfn and said he wanted to apologize for believing some other teachers who kept saying that she was a bad teacher. He has now realised that she is a very good teacher and he is glad that she is staying. And then he kept talking to her in private for whole one hour!
I hope he wasn't telling Stfn that it was I who had been telling him that she was a bad teacher!
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