This is my second entry today but couldn't help but add one more.  Learned today that both of the female teachers in the English department, Takematsu and Nakazawa, are being transferred in April.  I don't think a female teacher will come so I am a little dissapointed.  I also heard today when I went to Komako to fill out a paper to send to the board of education that both Ishida and Aoi Ito are leaving.  Hashimoto said that their replacements are both male.  I am going to be surrounded!  No......!!!!  This is crazy!  Nakazawa and Takematsu are probabaly the people I get along the most....um, each year my favorite teachers are being flung far away....my first year Kinoshita sensei and Kita-G.  My heart has a few holes in it already and now with this news I feel it bleeding...