jan 23 2006
Finally winter has come again.
The temp jumped far under zero celcius last night. And tonight it will even be lower.
I have to take medication everyday and to skip opening packages and pots every day I have a kind of holder with boxes for the days.
Yesterday I had to refill it and decided to have a look through all the meds to see if some were past their dates.
I always try to keep some stock, so I can drop a bottle in the sink without having to fetch them out of the water. Yuck.
The last time I had problems with the pharmacy as they delivered 12 avandamet short and dared to tell me that only 12 were not that important.
Ofcourse I filed a complaint and never heard something about it.
Yesterday I found out that they maybe have given me not enough of some other medicine. I always had 3 months more of it, but yesterday it was far less than three months.
Well, I'd better check the whole lot next time.
Last week I've felt awful. All bloated and ugly and fat.
Couldn't even sit well, because my stomach was swollen after each meal.
And I also felt cloudy in my head.
I wonder if I have had some old pills, because today I felt far better and feel worse now I'm nearing the time I need the next ones.
A similar reaction I had when I started them and the level in my blood wasn't high enough.
I'll have a close watch the next time.
I was already fearing my kidneys were giving up
Not too far from here a new pharmacy is opened.
I'll go and see how they work soon and maybe even ask my insurance for a switch.
Tomorrow the new laundry machine will be delivered.
So I got the water out of it and prepared all I can do.
They'll probably take the old dryer with them. The thing never worked properly.
So Jim disconnected the electricity.
When he came down I asked if he also got the last water out. That has always been one of his very few jobs in the house.
Ofcourse he forgot.
I hope tomorrow they new one gets connected soon. I have such a huge pile of laundry!!
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january 17th.
Thami took a letter with him to school.
Last week, after some minor incident in the classroom of a teacher that is NOT known for patience, kindness and understanding, he was thrown out.
When he came to his lesson the next day he wasn't allowed to go in.
he didn't understand at all why he was send out of the classroom, nor why he wasn't allowed in.
Even more interesting, his classmates didn't understand it either. Nyo had spoken with them and they told him the same.
That evening someone from school called, leaving no name.
Well, I've learned that buildings can't talk and one of my principles is that I'm not calling back when I don't know whom I'm calling back and/or which child is involved.
I also know the law says there should be a meeting between the teacher, Thami and someone of the schoolmanagement. And Thami said there had been no meeting.
So I thought it best to give school enough time to settle matters themselves.
No need to have an unkind teacher make me responsible for his own mistakes.
yesterday Thami was refused to enter that classroom again, and he still had no invitation for a meeting. Nor was there an official letter from school stating something serious was happening.
Nyo told that Thami's name wasn't on the list for next week's tests!
So I wrote a letter, stating that I couldn't call someone back who didn't leave a name or a proper mesaage.
That I'd heard my son was refused to enter the classroom of one teacher, and that he also was not on the list for the tests.
Wrote that, knowing that there are certain laws that need to be followed when a child is refused to enter the classroom and is refused tests, I was waiting for an official letter from the proper authorities from school stating the reasons why my son was refused, and the way complaints can be filed.
I also mentioned that it is very interesting that Thami didn't understand at all why he was refused.
That I thought it to be wise to follow the normal way and have a talk with him first to inform him, and then have a talk with him and the teacher to see if matters can be settled.
I've learned that making clear that there are laws, rules and regulations, make people aware that they are dealing with a real problem when they won't settle matters. In this case the schoolinspection needs to be involved, and we schould have been informed properly, and given the chance to file a complaint, before he was refused lessons, let alone the testing.
As I thought the teacher had taken the decision to refuse Thami all by himself, meaning he had violated the law.
And this letter was written to the head of the first three years, meaning he had to explain matters now.
Then later in the morning I got a call from Thami's father. He's more easy to get in contact with.
Thami had told the teacher had taken the letter from the concierge, and had been very unkind.
So I doubted what to do.. make a fuzz, or wait.
Then I thought it would even be better to ask the concierge what had happened.
He told that in the new school the teachers walk past the concierge on their way upstairs and take all the mail with them. So that teacher was there by coincidence and took the letter upstairs. I said that I hoped he would have handed a closed envelope over, as even though he might have expected a letter about Thami, it also might have been a letter about Nyo.
The concierge told me not to worry. He would find out if the letter had never arrived, or had been open.
So I waited till after school.
Thami told me that he had a meeting that afternoon. He still didn't understand completely what he had done wrong, but it was clear that the teacher had been irritated by the fact that he had been speeking a few words, and that he had sent him our for 5 minutes.
But Thami never heard the 5 minutes, so he went away to get a signature for being thrown out.
Which made the teacher furious, saying that he needed to stay later after school.
Well, saying that in the air doesn't reach the ear of the person involved. LOL!
And miracoulously it had been a mistake not to mention Thami on the list for testing. LOL!
After listening well I jumped on the keyboard and wrote a letter stating that I was happy matters had been resolved and that Thami was admitted to the lessons again.
I also suggested that it would be better next time to write down instructions when a child would be thrown out, so matters wouldn't escalate, and that it would also be very handy to find out if a child understood why it was thrown out.
I explained again what Thami's learningdifficulties are.
Well, let's hope matters are resolved and that teachers feels the law breathing in his neck.
Last year Nyo complained he felt that teacher behaved different towards white and brown and black children, and Thami said the same at the beginning of the year.
My kids are white, but they don't accept discrimination.
I hope this matter makes that teacher clear he's watched and is subject to the law.
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