Day 452: 3 Become 2

No, this isn't an alternate version to the Spice Girls hit. This is a very basic summary of what's about to happen to POLY here in Ilsan...

At the moment there are three POLY campuses here in Ilsan - ours, Juyeop, and Tahnyeon. Well we were told today that as of June Tahnyeon is no longer going to exist, but instead is going to be *merged* with our campus and Juyeop. This wasn't all that huge of a shock to us, as we all knew that Tahnyeon had really low enrollment ever since it opened a year or two ago. Frankly, it's a school that never should've existed in the first place. It's in kind of a more poor neighbourhood, and is too close to our campus anyway. Ilsan is a master-planned city with two symmetrical halves split by a large park. All three campuses are on the same side of the park, and that just seems kinda dumb if you ask me. Why not spread them around a bit more?

Well this announcement is going to mean some big changes for us. For one we're absorbing most of their classes (and therefore teachers and staff), and a few of our classes are going to be shuffled off to Juyeop. We'll be inheriting another Preschool and Kindergarten class, both of which we don't even really have the physical space for! Where they're gonna put those two classes is beyond me. Classrooms are going to be modified, rooms changed around an moved, major construction going on... As for the staff, well Eric will be coming over to our school, and fortunately not the other foreign teacher there who's apparently a reincarnation of the wicked witch of the west.

And all of this in just two weeks! How they're all gonna get it done in time (the construction) and keep things smooth is going to be quite the ambitious project. Looks like things are going to be pretty chaotic between now and my departure. So much for a quiet departure for me from POLY!