um.. ok so all you can drink kareoke places are awsome... predrinking before and drinking after are not. I only spent 20 bucks last night (free drinking due to newness is cool) so that was cool... but this morning at training sucked. its now 6 pm and i still hurt. I'm expected to go to the schools welcome party they are having for me and its expected that i will drink with my managers... this is going to be a long night and i'd rather be in bed..lol. meh, atleast i have 2 days off after this.
Thinking about you makes me dizzy because all i have are my memories...
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
I taught my first lesson yesterday. This week is training week and has us teaching lessons wed, Thursday and Friday with real students. (They come in after our training to have us try a lesson on them while our trainers sit in the back to observe us.) I finish my training on Saturday and then on Tues I observe at my new school and start teaching full time on wed. Wish me luck! I’m scared.
This weekend we’ll be celebrating my arrival. Fri night is kareoke night and sat night we there is a welcoming party. At the party everything is free and I’ve been told I need to try and out drink my seniors... its going to be a rough weekend...
This weekend we’ll be celebrating my arrival. Fri night is kareoke night and sat night we there is a welcoming party. At the party everything is free and I’ve been told I need to try and out drink my seniors... its going to be a rough weekend...
Monday, December 04, 2006
i made it..
So i'm settled (kinda) in okayama and i'm here to stay.
I arrived a couple days ago and its been pretty insane. When i finally got to my appartment after a 11 hour flight some of my new co- workers stoped bye which extended my day to roughly 30 hours. It was awsome to get such a warm welcome but the next morning of training sucked. Saturday night was awsome though. Me and my training partner were left to our own devices and ended up stumbling on a regae bar after 90 min of wandering downtown okayama. The place was a senses explosion that made me happy to be here. It was a small dark poorly lit room with rageee pariphinalia everywhere, good mucic, and chill locals.
A japanese man with dreads is always cool.
note: when you pay for a shot you actually get the equivilant of a few shots because they don't meassure and they don't care. A few of them was definetly enough for me to feel smiley. After our budgets were spent we decided to we were going to call it.. but then all of a sudden there was a piece of cheese in frunt of us. It seems that the couple to our right had placed it in frunt of us. Then a second piece came and this time the girl of the couple introduced her and her friend. Next thing we know, the four of us are laughing and telling stories and girl's date is buying everyone drink after drink. When the bar begins to close the couple insists on us joing them at another bar whtta serves beer till dawn and soon we are on the dance floor and the beer keeps flowing...
Ive been since told that this happens alot when business people make friends with forigners in small groups. I'm not sure if my liver will make it... though my wallet liked it, i only spent 20 bucks the entire night and i made several new friends. Though ive been told they will probably not accept it, i'm going to try and buy them drinks next time to pay them back.
Sunday was sightseeing, grocery, and studying day but i didn't get half as much done as I wanted too. I think i'm mstill really jetlaged
Right now its monday and I jsut finished a LONG day of training. Im so nervous because i'm supposed to give my first lesson on wed. um.. i'm screwed...lol
actually, i'm doing pretty well. I mean its hard to remember everything and by the end of the day there is very little retention, but from the feedback i'm getting i think i should not screw this up too too much.
In general i'm having an amazing time. Cultural differences take some getting use too, I sometimes feel like i'm living in a japanimie world (SERIOUSLY), and i mean i REALLY need to learn Japanese... but all in all this is going to be an awsome year and a bit.
Anyway, I feel like i'm writing like a 2 year old and not giving the details i'd like since i'm so freaking tired. i'll try to have better updates in the future.
ps:
good news: I don't have to pay rent till the old teacher moves out on the 17th
bad news: I won't have regular internet access until I get to move it.. so um.. bear with me.
Till next time...
I arrived a couple days ago and its been pretty insane. When i finally got to my appartment after a 11 hour flight some of my new co- workers stoped bye which extended my day to roughly 30 hours. It was awsome to get such a warm welcome but the next morning of training sucked. Saturday night was awsome though. Me and my training partner were left to our own devices and ended up stumbling on a regae bar after 90 min of wandering downtown okayama. The place was a senses explosion that made me happy to be here. It was a small dark poorly lit room with rageee pariphinalia everywhere, good mucic, and chill locals.
A japanese man with dreads is always cool.
note: when you pay for a shot you actually get the equivilant of a few shots because they don't meassure and they don't care. A few of them was definetly enough for me to feel smiley. After our budgets were spent we decided to we were going to call it.. but then all of a sudden there was a piece of cheese in frunt of us. It seems that the couple to our right had placed it in frunt of us. Then a second piece came and this time the girl of the couple introduced her and her friend. Next thing we know, the four of us are laughing and telling stories and girl's date is buying everyone drink after drink. When the bar begins to close the couple insists on us joing them at another bar whtta serves beer till dawn and soon we are on the dance floor and the beer keeps flowing...
Ive been since told that this happens alot when business people make friends with forigners in small groups. I'm not sure if my liver will make it... though my wallet liked it, i only spent 20 bucks the entire night and i made several new friends. Though ive been told they will probably not accept it, i'm going to try and buy them drinks next time to pay them back.
Sunday was sightseeing, grocery, and studying day but i didn't get half as much done as I wanted too. I think i'm mstill really jetlaged
Right now its monday and I jsut finished a LONG day of training. Im so nervous because i'm supposed to give my first lesson on wed. um.. i'm screwed...lol
actually, i'm doing pretty well. I mean its hard to remember everything and by the end of the day there is very little retention, but from the feedback i'm getting i think i should not screw this up too too much.
In general i'm having an amazing time. Cultural differences take some getting use too, I sometimes feel like i'm living in a japanimie world (SERIOUSLY), and i mean i REALLY need to learn Japanese... but all in all this is going to be an awsome year and a bit.
Anyway, I feel like i'm writing like a 2 year old and not giving the details i'd like since i'm so freaking tired. i'll try to have better updates in the future.
ps:
good news: I don't have to pay rent till the old teacher moves out on the 17th
bad news: I won't have regular internet access until I get to move it.. so um.. bear with me.
Till next time...
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