Oh, I forgot to mention…
Yesterday I arrived for my early classes. The ones I hate, because I have to get up really early which is really difficult because it’s really cold.
So there I stand, 500 layers of clothing at 8am, and what do they tell me? Oh, you don’t have the Secondary School classes anymore, because they’re preparing for the exams and Oral English has been canceled.
Colourful expletives shot through my mind and thankfully didn’t reach my mouth – the gist of it was, why the hell didn’t somebody tell me before I dragged my 37 degree body into this 0 degree temperature?
In bounces the Money Man’s Right Hand and says, oh, didn’t you know? And by the way, from the next week you will not have any classes at all. But don’t worry, we will still calculate your salary.
You’re damn right you will.
So down swoops the double edged sword. Chinese New Year is 29 January, and the school starts like 10 days after that which means I will have almost a month and a half holiday. Great.
So I have all this time in which they will pay me the basic of my salary, no overtime and won’t feed me, which means my expenses will shoot through the roof and my salary comes down. PLUS, I will probably have to go somewhere to entertain myself which means I will spend even more money.
I hate holidays.