Health Insurance & Work
I filled out my forms for the new insurance company and coverage will take effect as soon as they get them. I can even expidite the process by faxing them to the Osaka office. However, the guy there told me that it's nearly impossible to cancel the national health insurance plan. I can see why, the government doesn't want to loose $1000+ per person a year. Well, fuck that shit. I'm hoping that because I'm a foreigner, it won't apply to me. I'll just lie and tell them I'm leaving the country. Although, I don't see why they wouldn't let me cancel it... But as if we haven't learned this already, the Japanese government operates on a completely different plane of logic than the rest of the world. The good thing is though, they send you the invoice for it and you can pay it monthly (or all at once) at the convenience store. So I just won't pay. They won't cover me if I don't pay for it. At least that's what I'm hoping. InterGlobal has a 30-day money-back cancelation policy so if I find out that the government won't let me cancel, I can cancel the new insurance no problem.
This insurance thing on top of current events totally killed any happy buzz I had going on. I really hope to get this fucking health plan thing sorted out tomorrow after work. Expect either a really upbeat happy entry or the bitchiest rant from hell.
Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck. I have that drinking party tomorrow night. But it starts at 7. Well, it'll be all you can drink so I can drown my financial woes with beer in the worst case scenario.
Work went well today... I need to figure out how to deal with Shinozuka-sensei's and Kubo-sensei's classes. Both of them are so fucking noisy and hard to control. Both of them are great teachers and don't take shit, but even they have a hard time with them. And it's not only in English class, it's all the time. Esepcially Kubo-sensei, I feel really sorry for her. She said to me today that they make her feel like crying sometimes because they just won't shut up. I copied tomorrow's lesson plans for the grade 5 teachers and highlighted what I want them to do so hopefully things will go smoothly. Fudaba-sensei, the head for English, is seriously bugging me. It's his first year teaching so he's obviously trying and still getting the hang of things (and his class is like so disinterested, but he says they're like that all the time) but it makes it harder on me when he forgets to set up the computer in the morning or something like that. I don't have time to set shit up or do things that I asked them to do for me. It's a good thing he's cute... but that's not going to take him much farther. I'm going to suggest they rearrange the classes next year, maybe have his class during 3rd or 4th period to see if that makes a difference.
