influenza
Japanese people sure hate the flu.
It's like this yearly disaster.
They are making all students and teachers wear masks at the junior high. Yesterday I went there and told the head English teacher I had a cold and she was like "please wear a mask".... but I didn't have a mask and no one offered to give me one, so whose fault was it that I disobeyed her?
My friend has a crush on that woman but I don't see why (;__;)
Anyway today I went to my far elementary. Last week one of the 3rd grade classes had a mandatory few days off due to too many kids getting the flu. Today was the usual 30ish minutes by bicycle to get there. But I was a little out of it because of my cold. On the way I got a little hot so I took off my hat and put it in my bike basket. Later I noticed it was no longer in my basket. So I'd lost my hat :( and if I went back to look I'd have been late for work so I just continued on my way.
Got to school with a few minutes before class and I was talking to the woman at the desk across from me, she said I looked tired. I was going to go to the English classroom but the VET wasn't there at the time, and the woman across from me said "oh actually there is a note here that she's taken a sick day because she has a cold"
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6 classes teaching with me and the homeroom teachers?! With no VET?! D:
Actually at my main elementary school it would be no biggie because the homeroom teachers prepare the classroom for our lessons and are super-involved in the classes. But at the school I went to today the VET does all of that and the homeroom teachers usually just stand there and look like "what are we going to do today?"
Which is how I feel at that school too since they are usually so late in telling me the plans for our lessons.
And because the VET always prepares the room I don't know where the materials are to prepare it when she's gone.
So today I was like nooooooooooooooooooooooo
I went to the classroom but it was locked, came back because I'd forgotten the key since the VET usually opens up the room for me, only to find that the key wasn't there. 6th grade teacher said "oh I've just had it unlocked" so I must have been too early by a matter of minutes. Anyway the teacher across from me was saying "you look tired" and "do you have a fever?"
I fell into the trap because while I know I have a cold I never bothered to check my temperature.
So she had me check it. And the nurse put a mask on me.
My temp was 37.1 degrees C.
My usual temp is about 37 though I didn't tell them that.
I always assume 37 is not a fever.
But today she was like "oh even a tiny bit high is something to be worried about because the kids all have the flu right now, you should really go home".
Then the principal told me to go home.
37 is a fever?!
But at this point I felt I had very little choice. And since I didn't really want to teach all 6 periods without the VET I didn't protest. I called my company and told them the school told me to go home. And I went home.
And luckily I found my hat on the way home. Some kind person had picked it up and hung it on a tree branch so it would be more visible.
It's like this yearly disaster.
They are making all students and teachers wear masks at the junior high. Yesterday I went there and told the head English teacher I had a cold and she was like "please wear a mask".... but I didn't have a mask and no one offered to give me one, so whose fault was it that I disobeyed her?
My friend has a crush on that woman but I don't see why (;__;)
Anyway today I went to my far elementary. Last week one of the 3rd grade classes had a mandatory few days off due to too many kids getting the flu. Today was the usual 30ish minutes by bicycle to get there. But I was a little out of it because of my cold. On the way I got a little hot so I took off my hat and put it in my bike basket. Later I noticed it was no longer in my basket. So I'd lost my hat :( and if I went back to look I'd have been late for work so I just continued on my way.
Got to school with a few minutes before class and I was talking to the woman at the desk across from me, she said I looked tired. I was going to go to the English classroom but the VET wasn't there at the time, and the woman across from me said "oh actually there is a note here that she's taken a sick day because she has a cold"
X_X
6 classes teaching with me and the homeroom teachers?! With no VET?! D:
Actually at my main elementary school it would be no biggie because the homeroom teachers prepare the classroom for our lessons and are super-involved in the classes. But at the school I went to today the VET does all of that and the homeroom teachers usually just stand there and look like "what are we going to do today?"
Which is how I feel at that school too since they are usually so late in telling me the plans for our lessons.
And because the VET always prepares the room I don't know where the materials are to prepare it when she's gone.
So today I was like nooooooooooooooooooooooo
I went to the classroom but it was locked, came back because I'd forgotten the key since the VET usually opens up the room for me, only to find that the key wasn't there. 6th grade teacher said "oh I've just had it unlocked" so I must have been too early by a matter of minutes. Anyway the teacher across from me was saying "you look tired" and "do you have a fever?"
I fell into the trap because while I know I have a cold I never bothered to check my temperature.
So she had me check it. And the nurse put a mask on me.
My temp was 37.1 degrees C.
My usual temp is about 37 though I didn't tell them that.
I always assume 37 is not a fever.
But today she was like "oh even a tiny bit high is something to be worried about because the kids all have the flu right now, you should really go home".
Then the principal told me to go home.
37 is a fever?!
But at this point I felt I had very little choice. And since I didn't really want to teach all 6 periods without the VET I didn't protest. I called my company and told them the school told me to go home. And I went home.
And luckily I found my hat on the way home. Some kind person had picked it up and hung it on a tree branch so it would be more visible.