week 2: the easy week

well, it was supposed to be. once i'd finally managed to answer all my colleague's questions about the instructions i'd given her, the only thing i had to take care of was organising the oral placement tests for the prospective students. the person i was trying to contact didn't seem all too keen on replying, so if i got anything out of her, i'd at the most be able to set up a time and place before my boss and supervisor were back from London. not too complicated.

then came Wednesday.

basically, we (C., the only other person in charge and me) suddenly had to organise cover for a teacher who'd spent the night and day in hospital. she was supposed to come out that evening, but as i pointed out, would she really be up to teaching on the following day after a miscarriage? i didn't think so. we managed to sort out the problem and find teachers to replace all her lessons until the end of term and as i was one of them, i'd spent over an hour finding material for a class i had no information whatsoever on, only to find out half an hour before leaving to teach said classes that she was adamant she could teach. however, the boss wasn't too happy about this so i had to brief the replacement i'd found for her other classes on the possibility of cover being needed or not and what the options were.

at the same time, i'd finally managed to get a hold of my contact person at the other company and had been so relieved to finally get a hold of her that i set up the best appointment ever - on Tuesday, the only day every single prospective student would be at work and at a time where i had no lessons - only to remember 10 minutes later that i actually had an AGM to attend on that particular day; a meeting that had been set up in April, around my schedule as this was the only evening of the week i didn't teach. great. went back to C. to see what she'd recommend and found a solution. thank god she was around this week, is all i can say!