ABSURD!!! Truly.
Yesterday was a heart break, an upset, true frustration, and most of all anger. I am still trying to breathe it out. As most of you know, my mom was suppose to come and visit in September, and I had already bought my plane tickets, booked the hotels, everything really. Not to mention I was truly excited at the thought of seeing my mom after a year and a half. This plan, has been in motion for months, with everything perfect, till yesterday. I come into work, and I had to have a meeting with the head teacher of my elementary school and my supervisor. He said (the head teacher) he was really sorry but was going to ask a HUGE favour of me. Apparently the elementary school is holding a workshop the same day as when I am going to be gone visiting my mom. Naturally, I said, that is too bad, I choose my mom. The meeting pressed on.
They offered to pay for the changes in flight times and give me the time off without me having to use my time off days. I call my mom, nope, everything is booked, flights can't be changed.
More negotiation.
Finally, I agree to canceling my trip if they refund me the money for my ticket, and give me a month off at Christmas without me having to use time off. So now I have those 36 days off, plus 11 still for the year, with 20 more coming in January, and I have a heart ache. Although, in my mother's words, Christmas is only 3 months away, but still. I just can't seem to justify it, when
1) they didn't tell me about the workshop until then.
2) I am teaching for the workshop and am the only class listed, so basically my class is the workshop.
3) the class is 45 MINUTES!!!
All this crap for 45 minutes. Yeah. Not cool.
But I am trying to be grown up about it all. I had to go home yesterday and took the afternoon off because I couldn't stop crying. A quarter hormones (ahhh pms always good timing), half sadness, the other quarter pure rage. I don't do well when I am angry, I end up crying. Yeah. Not a lot of fun, but I guess there must be a reason for this, it is too absurd not to be. Maybe there will be a crazy typhoon during that time or something.
Universe, I await your answers!
In other news though, I canceled having school lunch. I am tired of having to eat things I don't like and feeling sick every afternoon (sad that it took me this long to say no), and although it was a good learning experience for 2 years and also handy not having to cook or bring a lunch, no more. I want to get back on the whole vegetarian band wagon and be kind to my body. And school lunch has definitely been bad digestively. VOILA.
It could be that I am trying to take control of my life again. Yesterday's upset definitely triggered a lot of things. Ahh pure anger and heart break, really does throw your center off.
Sweet. World, you have been warned.
Yesterday was a heart break, an upset, true frustration, and most of all anger. I am still trying to breathe it out. As most of you know, my mom was suppose to come and visit in September, and I had already bought my plane tickets, booked the hotels, everything really. Not to mention I was truly excited at the thought of seeing my mom after a year and a half. This plan, has been in motion for months, with everything perfect, till yesterday. I come into work, and I had to have a meeting with the head teacher of my elementary school and my supervisor. He said (the head teacher) he was really sorry but was going to ask a HUGE favour of me. Apparently the elementary school is holding a workshop the same day as when I am going to be gone visiting my mom. Naturally, I said, that is too bad, I choose my mom. The meeting pressed on.
They offered to pay for the changes in flight times and give me the time off without me having to use my time off days. I call my mom, nope, everything is booked, flights can't be changed.
More negotiation.
Finally, I agree to canceling my trip if they refund me the money for my ticket, and give me a month off at Christmas without me having to use time off. So now I have those 36 days off, plus 11 still for the year, with 20 more coming in January, and I have a heart ache. Although, in my mother's words, Christmas is only 3 months away, but still. I just can't seem to justify it, when
1) they didn't tell me about the workshop until then.
2) I am teaching for the workshop and am the only class listed, so basically my class is the workshop.
3) the class is 45 MINUTES!!!
All this crap for 45 minutes. Yeah. Not cool.
But I am trying to be grown up about it all. I had to go home yesterday and took the afternoon off because I couldn't stop crying. A quarter hormones (ahhh pms always good timing), half sadness, the other quarter pure rage. I don't do well when I am angry, I end up crying. Yeah. Not a lot of fun, but I guess there must be a reason for this, it is too absurd not to be. Maybe there will be a crazy typhoon during that time or something.
Universe, I await your answers!
In other news though, I canceled having school lunch. I am tired of having to eat things I don't like and feeling sick every afternoon (sad that it took me this long to say no), and although it was a good learning experience for 2 years and also handy not having to cook or bring a lunch, no more. I want to get back on the whole vegetarian band wagon and be kind to my body. And school lunch has definitely been bad digestively. VOILA.
It could be that I am trying to take control of my life again. Yesterday's upset definitely triggered a lot of things. Ahh pure anger and heart break, really does throw your center off.
Sweet. World, you have been warned.
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