Greetings! it’s been a while since I’ve updated and a lot has happened. This week i started training at my new English teacher job and so far I am both pretty impressed with the job description details and the support and training we have received. The company I am working for has several “luxuries” that have never been present in my other full-time teaching positions: training and observation, a pre-existing teaching system, and COURSEWARE! I cannot even tell you how excited I am that the most I will need to do in terms of writing new courseware is look up activity variations and fit them into the existing textbook lesson structure! (more…)
Archive for August, 2010
Black hair pics are up on Media page!
2010 -
08.08
I am really liking my hair black- I figure if it can’t be rainbow, might as well go to the other color extreme, eh?
And it makes my rainbow accessories stand out more! :D
This week I have been preparing for work by getting professional clothes shipped to my sister in Boston and then relayed to me (thanks, Katherine!)… and other than that I have been watching a lot of anime. Ahem, I mean “practicing japanese”. My sleep schedule has slowly slipped backwards far enough that I am now waking up when it is dark and going to bed after it’s light, so I am going to put it back to something reasonable before training starts next week. I actually really enjoy my reverse schedule to a certain extent… especially since it is so hot here. I think waking up as late as 4 or 5 and going to bed around 6 or 7 is fine, but after a while I start to feel… dislodged… like now, so I start over. Not getting any sunlight makes me crazy. I really miss the weather I am used to, and strangely enough, when I think of “home”/America, it is California that is calling to me, in environment, anyway, even though I’ve lived in Boston for 6 years. Travelling has really shown me what my Dad told me when I was a teenager, that California really does have a huge variety of biomes and the most pleasant weather… and I might end up choosing it as my permanent home eventually, or at least somewhere on that coast. Yes, i’m feeling a bit homesick, so I am glad that I will be getting my own apartment in two weeks so I can start making a nest of familiarity for myself! My sister is sending spearmint tea and rose incense along with my clothes to that end. :)
Professional Appearances
2010 -
08.03
MORE PICS IN MEDIA SECTION
So I am now living in a town called Yotsukaido, near Chiba city, and I am staying in the “guesthouse” for my new job’s company with a couple of other teachers until training is over. Training starts in 2 weeks on August 16th and I have until then to transform my wardrobe from funky rogue wanderer to professional teacher. Happily, I have the funds to do so through some serendipitous and generous combination of events. So the main quest is twofold: clothes, and hair. (more…)