Today some informtion about the hostel office :
The office is a house with one big room and two smaller ones. It also got a toilet, a few computers and a coffee machine. On a board all the appointments of the boys are written.
In the office are working :
- Helen, the secretary
- Roger, the hostel manager
- Ross, the second hostel manager
While Roger is working in his small room, Helen has to organize appointments for the boys, answer to parents and play nurse to decide if a boy is really sick or just wants to get off from school. Ross is mostly working outside and just gets into the office to give me another job.
The office is my main working place. My main duties are washing the dishes, making coffee and vecuming the floor. Besides I’m taking phonecalls, answer to students and organize prep. (Prep, preparation, is time which the students spent sitting in a room doing homework)
That's the desk, on which Helen is working. In the backround you are seeing the board with the appointments. Helen's computer is locked with a password nobody else knows. So we always have to use other computers.
This is Roger, our Hostel manager. Sadly he is one of the staff members which is leaving the Hostel after the Christmas holidays. He is going to open a design shop in Oamaru.