Got a job!!!

Good news everyone! I got a job at a little home-run English school called Jin-Yu English Club. It is run by one woman who started it for her daughters because she was so unsatisfied with the english classes they were attending, so she started her own! Anyway it has about 60 students aged between 4 and 10 or so, and basically they hire one native-english speaker to take classes of about 6 kids at a time.

So yesterday I went and sat in on one of the classes and jeez it looked fun, and easy!! These kids look like they WANT to learn (i.e. it's not part of school so they're only there cos they want to be), and they were all really energetic and happy and actually, their English was pretty good!

So yeah, it looks like a lot of fun. I start on Monday at 4pm - this first week I'll probably just be sitting in and helping out the current, departing native-speaker, this American guy named James, until I get it all worked out and then can take over from him in April.

But yeah, 250,000 yen a month, transport costs covered, and since it's a little school, I can probably negotiate my own holidays and stuff. So new laptop, here I come!