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Look back on Oct 31, 2008: Big oops. Wrong train again

Today my lesson was in Izumi Fuu-nishi, in which the closest station was JR Izumi Fuuchuu.  I had to take JR train from JR Tennoji station, but for the second time this week I got on the wrong train.  And this time I was not so lucky.  When I was at the train platform at [...]

Look back on Oct 30, 2008: Second day at work

Today I travelled very very far to my work location.  The classroom was located in Otsu 大津.  which takes about 75 mins from Hirakata.  I had to transfer at JR Kyoto station and it was a pain in the ass since Keihan does not connect to it.  I had to transfer one station before JR [...]

English Teacher Training

Today I received my English teacher training from Zenken.  I have been assigned to work at the after school English clubs (branded as World Academy) at various location in the Osaka and Kyoto area.  As I am told, I will be teaching children from 5 years old to high school students that are preparing for [...]

I got a job!

Week number 6 of my working holiday adventure in Japan is ending, and it ended with good news! I finally got a job!  Zenken sent me an email yesterday asking me to go to training on Saturday morning as there will be assignments starting on Monday.  They will give me more details about my assignments [...]

Interview with Nova and Sala

I went to two more interviews in the last 2 days.

The first one was with Nova.  Yes, the once bankrupted English school that was managed by another company these days.  The interview was held in the (very modern) office building in Nakazakicho.  I was actually late to the interview because I got lost…..heck, I was [...]