Update part 3- Headache
This is the final update of my 3 post saga!
After the heartache, I had to deal with the headache of moving to a new apartment. Thinking about this still makes me angry and frustrated! I obviously knew I had to move before I left on vacation to Canada....and being the organized and slightly anxious person I am I wanted plans to be in place before I left. But as fate would have it, all of my organization was matched with an equally unorganized person on the other end. You see I was taking over the apartment from the person I replaced. And legally they had to be out of the apartment by September 1st allowing me to move in and start working on the same day. Now if you are dealing with a flexible school or flexible person who is leaving they might leave earlier or allow you to move in earlier. What happened to me was that I didn’t know when I could move in until it was very close to my actual moving date. I had contacted the teacher I was replacing MULTIPLE times and though MULTIPLE ways but she just did not respond. Until I couldn’t wait any longer and booked a moving company for a day she said would be okay. Luckily when she finally did reply only 5 days before I was supposed to move she said the booked day and time was okay and she would be there. The problem is I was only allowed to drop my stuff because she needed to stay in the apartment one more night before her flight back to the States. At the time it was fine with me because I needed to go back to my town for my last day at work. Everything was settled....until a BOMB was dropped in my lap.
In a different unrelated call with my landlord about a lamp in my apartment, he told us that my lease is actually finished on August 30th, and someone was coming in that day to move in. Meaning that I could not stay the night before my last day of school like planed. So basically I had to move all my stuff on August 30th and not come back. This was a huge shock because now I suddenly had nowhere to stay. Normally the procedure is that the school whose contract the teacher is under is responsible for finding accommodation for me in this situation (this is my past school not my new school). The usual thing is to be put up in a hotel for the night....but for some reason my past school would not do that for me. Instead they asked if I could stay with a friend. I told them no....that it was in my contract for the school to take care of it. I was getting mixed signals because some teachers said it would be okay for a hotel....others said I would stay with my department head (a nice teacher who I know and like). Turns out my co-teacher made arrangements for my to stay with a different co-worker who had never even talked to.....talk about uncomfortable!
Eventually I decided to just stay with my friend because I didn’t want to go through the hassle of making small talk to a complete stranger. I was sick and tired of all the jerking around that was happening to me. I didn’t understand why this was suddenly happening until I realised I was in the middle of a hidden power struggle between my dept head and supervisor.
On my actual moving day my supervisor co-teacher came to help out, and I was grateful for her help. BUT the moving truck came late because they double booked and my landlord wanted me to pay for water damage that happened with the past tenant. Although he knew the damage happened with the previous tenant he misunderstood, and thought he would ask for payment when the school’s contact was up. I was not impressed....there was NO WAY he was making me pay for past damage! (luckily in the end I didn’t have to...SAFE!). After those hiccups the moving process was pretty smooth and I was able to move everything within a few hours because my moving guy was a PRO! I crashed at my friends house after, I was absolutely exhausted and I knew my life was just going to get even busier.
Needless to say those last couple days were long, frustrating, and hella stressful.