Hard to believe, but this little blog here has been alive and kicking on the Internet for a full year now. It all started with this little post, letting the world know why I’m here. It’s been a great time so far. I originally created this blog not only as a way to keep track of my experiences for myself and my family, but also as a way to share with interested people the experience of being a foreign exchange student. If my blog has helped even one person to decide to study abroad or made their experience of preparing to study abroad a little bit easier then I am satisfied.
Here’s to another great year!
If you’ve been following my Twitter then you know that last weekend I went out to Morioka in Iwate prefecture to take the Japanese Language Placement Test. Even though I was going to take a test, the group of us who went down to Morioka had a really good time (don’t let Lim’s face in the above photo tell you otherwise) and I thought I would take a moment to let you know all about how it went down.
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It’s been about a month and a half since I first got my first job here in Japan: teaching English at a “juku,” or “cram school” as it might be translated into English. The name of the place is A+ English School and they actually have a website. Yes, that’s me in that video on the front page. No, it’s not that embarrassing. :P Clicking around the site, you might notice it’s primarily a school for young children. We have students as young as 3 years old, all the way up to about 11 years old. In the course of working there, I’d had chances to teach and play with all of them. If you’re curious about teaching in Japan, or what kind of opportunities there will be for you to work as a foreign exchange student, then this post is for you!
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