Black Friday

Well I arrived at the office this morning and the doorknobs and locks had been changed. I clearly could not get in and was incredibly confused as to why something like this happened. At first I thought that we had been robbed during the night and for some reason the theives changed the door knobs. That really didn´t make any sense so I walked over to the other office to speak with Ines and call the owner of the newspapers.

I don´t still don´t know exactly what is going on but apparently there are some serious issues going on between Jan and the management. I think Jan is being fired for reasons that are still unclear to me and the owner had the locks changed so that Jan couldn´t get back into the office and sabotage the newspaper or something. A little absurd if you ask me but I´m sure that´s happened before.

There has been a bit of disorganization among the management and payment of bills and salaries and stuff lately and I think this the fallout of all that. I am doing fine and have had no problems with anyone but I am a little concerned about things to come. To be completely honest, Jan does a lot of stuff for The Journal and I think it will be difficult for them to replace him. I was talking to another writer and he is worried that the paper might go under. I don´t think it is quite that severe but then again, I´ve only been here about five weeks.

As of right now things are OK for me but we´ll just have to wait and see how they progress in the next couple weeks or two. If worst comes to worst and they need to get rid of me then I guess I just start my travels early. Not entirely a bad thing I guess.

On a much happier note, Chad is actually in San Jose right now and I´m going to meet him over the weekend. For those who might not know who that is, he was my high school soccer coach and lives next door to my house in Iowa. He´s down here with the high school team for a trip before their season starts. I leave Saturday morning and it should be great because I´ll get to hang out with him and see San Jose for the first time and I might even get to play a little bit too! (I´m a little out of shape so we´ll see how long I last in the heat though)