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Life here in Japan just seems to get better everyday. Yes, my incredibly awesome gaijin friends are leaving Japan, two this month, one in early January, but I keep making new Japanese friends. I'll also be living in the same building with the other teachers at my new job. I've moved everything into my new apartment, and I'm marking time until I ( Read more... )

It's finally feeling like fall here! It's cold at night, warm and sunny during the day, and I can wear my sweaters! YAY ( Read more... )

So Nova isn't going bankrupt, but they aren't reopening my school in the near future. The sponsor is opening 30 branches now with plans to gradually bring the number up to 200, which includes Fukuyama's school. Rumor is that we should get one month of pay (even though we are owed 2), but I don't know when that will be coming. And I can't collect ( Read more... )

With Nova in limbo, I have nothing to keep me busy here aside from the daily job hunt and hanging out at a nearby internet cafe (where I buy one drink and hang around for hours ( Read more... )

A huge thunderstorm woke me up yesterday morning ( Read more... )

So right now my luck is shit. I turned down my job offer from Kyushu because I don't have the money to move, and they need a teacher ASAP. My interview in Nagoya fell through because there was a one week period they didn't hear from me and assumed I'd passed ( Read more... )

So things at Nova look like crap. We`re losing 4 teachers at the end of the month (at least that many, maybe more if we don`t get paid on time this Monday). That`s 4 of 11 teachers. I don`t see how we`ll keep going unless Nova gets its shit straightened out fast. All I have heard here is rumors. It`s frustrating ( Read more... )

If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double.Good news! It finally feels like fall here! And I'm actually wearing a long sleeved shirt. I rejoice in the cool weather ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAAArgh! Wishing all of you a happy day of piratey talk and many a drink of grog. Alas, the Japanese do not have the soul of a pirate (although their xenophobia sometimes seems a possible substitute ( Read more... )