Talk about a bad meeting...
Watching someone have a heart attack is not fun.
I had a meeting this afternoon with some of the other English teachers in my town, at a junior high school on the other side of town. So the other two ALTs for Minamiise were there, which made it a little less scary. The meeting went really well, and I was happy with what my elementary school teachers had to say about the lessons I'd been doing in their classes.
We were just wrapping up, when the principal from the school we were at (who was attending our meeting for some reason) started moaning and convulsing, and collapsed.
He turned blue in the face, but he started gasping for breath after about fifteen seconds. And he came to, but he was delerious and started struggling, so the other teachers had to hold him down to keep him from getting up. He was moaning a lot, but honestly I was really glad for that because it meant he was breathing and he was fine.
The closest hospital to that school doesn't have an ambulance, so they actually called for the one by my junior high, I guess. (Or maybe one just north in Ise?) It took them what seemed like forever to get there, but once they did, they seemed to be able to calm him down really quickly. Less than five minutes later, he was sitting up and talking like normal.
I was kind of shaken up, but really only because it startled me at first. The way that everyone handled the situation-- calmly, people stepping up where they were needed-- and the fact that he was breathing again meant that the situation ended up as good as it possibly could have.
I'm just so glad he was okay. I'll be anxious to hear from Darren (that school's ALT) how he's doing.
I had a meeting this afternoon with some of the other English teachers in my town, at a junior high school on the other side of town. So the other two ALTs for Minamiise were there, which made it a little less scary. The meeting went really well, and I was happy with what my elementary school teachers had to say about the lessons I'd been doing in their classes.
We were just wrapping up, when the principal from the school we were at (who was attending our meeting for some reason) started moaning and convulsing, and collapsed.
He turned blue in the face, but he started gasping for breath after about fifteen seconds. And he came to, but he was delerious and started struggling, so the other teachers had to hold him down to keep him from getting up. He was moaning a lot, but honestly I was really glad for that because it meant he was breathing and he was fine.
The closest hospital to that school doesn't have an ambulance, so they actually called for the one by my junior high, I guess. (Or maybe one just north in Ise?) It took them what seemed like forever to get there, but once they did, they seemed to be able to calm him down really quickly. Less than five minutes later, he was sitting up and talking like normal.
I was kind of shaken up, but really only because it startled me at first. The way that everyone handled the situation-- calmly, people stepping up where they were needed-- and the fact that he was breathing again meant that the situation ended up as good as it possibly could have.
I'm just so glad he was okay. I'll be anxious to hear from Darren (that school's ALT) how he's doing.