My Director may not be Satan

I recieved some very good news this week. So it all starts with Eddie and Matt wanting to visit me in Korea before I come home. I think they are mainly downing just for their selfish means (korean women) but in any case it will still be a great time. The problems arose as to when. I don't have anymore time off and taking time off is quite frowned upon. To understand how frowned upon I regale you with the tale of my sick days. I took two sick days when I was diagnosised with tonsilitis and was "visited" by Peter (the ultimate yes man) four times in two days. He made it seem like he was seeing how I was feeling but any sane person can see that they were checking up on me, Even though they took me to the hospital and were in the room translating for the doctor when he diagnosed me.

To say the least tryin to get time off because my buddies want to get drunk and sex up some korean university students. Isn't going to be the easiest sale I've ever had to make. So I scour the calendar to find days that I could take to give the most time to so end with them. It turned out that the most I could do was 5 days in a row off by taking two days off around a long weekend. But at the end of my contract, the last week of it there was a tuesday off. With me scheduled to leave on Thursday, last day of work being Wednesday. So if I can get them to give me the monday and wednesday off. I can get five days with my boys and head home the same day as them. Now just to get the Director to agree.

I propose the idea for removal of me from the classroom so that my replacement can take over on Monday and make the transition less turbulent. My manager seems apprehensive but will talk it over with the director. I assume I just got the Blow off and not the fun kind. She didn't even write anything down.

Two days later the manager calls me into the office. I am assuming the worst. She thanks me for my idea because they have had problems with teacher switches, parents love to complain. She takes out a calendar and says "the 16th and 18th were the days you wanted off right?" I agree. She nods but then goes off on a tangent about when the new guy is arriving and all this BS but it focused on the first week of July. So my curiousity is sufficiently peaked. She basically recites my idea back to me word for word except for the date. I said my last day would be the 13th(the friday before the long weekend. Yeah, I think the dates great too) She keeps saying the 6th.
Apparently I'm stopping teaching the 6th and observing the new guy from 9-13th and then I'm off. Which is pretty close to what I proposed minues a week of teaching. Then they drop the bomb on me, I can choose my flight home date as long as it is not more than two weeks after my visa expires. So they are letting me bounce around Korea 17 days after I stop teaching. This is quite something. Every person I've seen leave has left the day after they finished teaching. No choice, No opinion. So I probably won't be home till the end of July. THIS IS GOING TO ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!! (as long as they don't $%^#&^%^ me down the line.