Honestly, now.

Visa status:  still none

However, I’m still off to Japan.  My tourist visa expires tomorrow and my school is being pretty generous and sending me to Japan for a whole six hours!  But my plane ticket is free so I really can’t complain.  Apparently, my visa will go through “next week.”  So who knows when that will be.  I’m pretty sure that the owner of my school hates me these days, but something is keeping me from getting fired.  Here’s the conversation today:

School Owner: Anne!  Are you working?

Me: Not until I get my visa.

School Owner: Your visa is coming.  Work!

Me: Yeah……not until I get my visa.

School Owner gives me a mildly dirty look and stalks off.  I give myself a pat on the back for sticking to my guns.  But all things considered, I still want to work there.  I miss my students and coworkers.  I still like my job (the working part, not the waiting part).  However, I’m pretty sure that either A) someone somewhere really, truly believes deep down in their heart that I will get my visa or B) they are working on replacing all the people that need visas with people who don’t and management doesn’t want to risk pissing me off and me getting all of the teachers to quit.    Either way, I’m okay for the time being.

Peace.