As you may know, my contract here ends on Aug 1. I want to stay in Japan after that, so I'm currently looking for a new job, but even then, it won't be around here. Less than 4 months until I leave Tonami. Anyway...
I went to elementary school today for a brief meeting in advance of starting next week (actually in two weeks because of regional meeting). They gave me the curriculum and explained my schedule, and that was fine.
At the end, they're like, "Oh, because we all need to be better at English now, we were hoping you could run a couple fun and informal conversation workshops for us teachers!"
"Yeah, I can do that I guess. When would they be?"
"August!"
At this point I made a bit of a face, and my guy at the elementary school interpreted it as, "August? I don't work in summer vacation, who do you think you are!"
As I started to explain, he cut me off, "Nono, wait hear me out!"
"Hang on," I explained, "My job ends August 1st. A new teacher will come to replace me. Maybe they are as experienced and skilled as I am; they probably won't be."
"What? You're leaving? 
"
"Yup. If you can swing the workshops in July, but give me dates really soon, I'll try to make the time. July is busy though, so get crackin'."
"AAaaah ok!!!"
