ah, teachers!

so, apart from the incident i vaguely mentioned the other day (sorry, i can't be more specific - suffice it to say it made the rest of the week rather interesting), there was a message from one of my teachers waiting for me when i got to the office this morning. it confirmed that some lessons wouldn't be taking place today. ... uh? what? why?

when i asked my colleague, who'd taken the message, i was told she'd explained that, further to my email about their being no lessons today, she was letting me know that 2 of her students had called to cancel but as there was no lesson anyway... the only email i'd sent this teacher was about the Easter break, next month. surely she wasn't mixing the dates up?

when i finally got hold of her, it turned out she had mixed the dates up. how she could have failed to see the word Easter in both the subject and the text is beyond me, but there you go. luckily, there was still - just about - time for her to make the lessons (thank god i was half an hour early myself!) the problem was the students. if those two people had communicated the lack of lesson further, we were in trouble, especially as practically none of these people have access to email at work... as it turned out, though, it seemed we were in luck, so the crisis was averted.