First day of work in 2012

The worst day is always the first day of work after a holiday. It really sucks. Officially, New Year's holiday is over on the 3rd of January, and many people start work on the 4th, especially office workers and public servants. Kids don't go to school yet though, for which many teachers take one or two paid holidays on the 4th and 5th to relax, visit relatives etc. 

Even the trains, without the hundreds of students I usually ride together with, seemed to be empty. The car I was sitting in was literally empty. I was all by myself-as Celine Dion would sing ...LOL. Anyway, this Wednesday I seriously thought, I was the only one doomed to work that day. It turns out, my assumption wasn't even far from the truth.

Ghost train...

Empty walkways...

For the past two days I was all alone in the English staff room, that I usually share with about 10 Japanese English teachers.  There were 5 more teachers in the main staff room, and 3 people in the office, plus the groundskeeper. After I got help to plug in the two gas heaters we have (I don't like messing with the gas myself), I kinda enjoyed being on my own, in a bright, quiet room. Spent my time with reading, preparing for my next team teaching, surfing the net, occasionally dozing off a bit. 

Where's everyone? Is this the new Biohazard beginning?

I think tomorrow there will be a big staff meeting, so I suppose almost everyone will turn up to work. Good-bye relaxing silence...welcome lot of stupid questions about how I spent the holidays. :) By the way, in my next entry, I will tell you about how I spent my holidays LOL. It's just that I hate when like 7 people (whom I don't even like that much) ask the same question one after the other, and you know it's just because they want to be polite, not because they really care. Plus, you have to pretend you are interested in what they did too.