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Mar. 2nd, 2011 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vintage_belleThings, they are a---- sort of changing.
I have a job. It is in a private school in Kisarazu, Chiba (which is down the peninsula and on the water). I will be doing *le gasp* actual teaching - there will be a Japanese teacher in the room, but they will sit in the back and grade papers unless I specifically ask them to help me with a dialogue or somesuch. I also get to make the tests, give the homework, and grade the children.
And I am nervous as all hell about it. 've been trying to talk myself into believing it will all be okay, I've only been getting worse as this year comes to a close.
I don't know when the position starts (or when the vacations are). Sometime in April. I have to move to Chiba between March 25th and then, so I won't be able to make it back to New York for the spring.
My roommate is leaving the country and leaving me all alone. Of my coworkers two others are moving as well and at least one is moving to Tokyo, but he's also moving in with his girlfriend. I doubt there will be much communication from him. At least two others are staying out here in Tochigi - I may be able to see them at least once during the year, but they have their social network and I'll be too far away to be a part of it.
In light of all that, I think this will be my last year in Japan, unless something makes this job so awesome that I'd die if I left it or unless some other offer comes in that I would die if I didn't take it. I am ready to return to the familiarity of New York and the wonderful people there whom I have the privilege to call friends. I miss being able to take an afternoon jaunt to a museum or walk into a movie theater just on a whim. I miss my friends. I'm not sure what I'll do for work, no, but I'll find something - even if it's school. I always did want to learn Italian.
I have a job. It is in a private school in Kisarazu, Chiba (which is down the peninsula and on the water). I will be doing *le gasp* actual teaching - there will be a Japanese teacher in the room, but they will sit in the back and grade papers unless I specifically ask them to help me with a dialogue or somesuch. I also get to make the tests, give the homework, and grade the children.
And I am nervous as all hell about it. 've been trying to talk myself into believing it will all be okay, I've only been getting worse as this year comes to a close.
I don't know when the position starts (or when the vacations are). Sometime in April. I have to move to Chiba between March 25th and then, so I won't be able to make it back to New York for the spring.
My roommate is leaving the country and leaving me all alone. Of my coworkers two others are moving as well and at least one is moving to Tokyo, but he's also moving in with his girlfriend. I doubt there will be much communication from him. At least two others are staying out here in Tochigi - I may be able to see them at least once during the year, but they have their social network and I'll be too far away to be a part of it.
In light of all that, I think this will be my last year in Japan, unless something makes this job so awesome that I'd die if I left it or unless some other offer comes in that I would die if I didn't take it. I am ready to return to the familiarity of New York and the wonderful people there whom I have the privilege to call friends. I miss being able to take an afternoon jaunt to a museum or walk into a movie theater just on a whim. I miss my friends. I'm not sure what I'll do for work, no, but I'll find something - even if it's school. I always did want to learn Italian.
