Julie seems to be settling into her job as part-time school nurse. Recognizing her need to get her family settled in, her boss Jerry told her not to worry about reporting in on the first day ofschool even though the school had 900 students returning from summer break that morning. Jerry trully is one of the sweetest men you could ever hope to meet. Julie is working opposite Fanny, a Cantonese (and English)-speaking local who is also part time. This spring, Julie was tenatively told that she would be working from about 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. But when we arrived, it had been flipped. Julie will be working from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. or five hours a day, or 25 hours a week. That's a little more than half time (62.5% to be exact).
This will actually work out pretty well. It will give Julie the morning hours to take care of a few things like running errands. It makes the dinner hour a little tricky (heaven forbid that I learn how to cook), but recognizing the need to tend to her family and because she lives upstairs, Jerry has proposed a beeper system where Julie will be on call for the last 90 minutes of her shift. So as long as she's still in the building, starting at 4:30, she is free to go up to our apartment, get the girls started on their homework, and get the rice cooker coooking.
It's really pretty cool all working and going to school in the same building. I love having Elise come bounding into my class room at 3:30 to play on the computer. I love getting little clandestine waves from Annika as we pass in the hall.
And today on my lunch break I went downstairs to the nurse's office to get a little schmooch from my wife.
-Jack
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