It's that time of year again
So it's offically spring and sakura season!
Which means all change for me! I finished up with my old job about a week ago and next week go for training for my brand new job. Not entirely sure what to expect, but I'm sure I'll manage just fine.
In the mean time, what has been happening.
Graduation has come and gone, I got to say goodbye to those who were graduating but not any of the other students. Yet and of the other ALTs in my area (who work for the same company) who were leaving, they got up to a week to tell the students they were leaving. I was denied that by the Principle. All the other teachers thought I should be allowed to say something. But no. So that rubbed me the wrong way in the last week of school.
I had to juggle around with my visa yet again because of the whole changing jobs thing. So yet more money into the immigration system simply to change my work status. And because of it I lost the nice lovely 3 years that I had, I got downgraded to a 1 year visa. Sucky system sucks.
I have had two leaving parties. The first I cried a lot because of alcohol and it being my first real send off in my 4 years working here. The second was better because I didn't have to stand up and give a speech, I did get very drunk though.
I took a trip up a mountain to go exploring. I got lost up said mountain because the map was awful and the places it said I could go were barely signposted as soon as you got out of the centre bubble. It was beautiful and well worth the effort though.
I did hanami (cherry blossom viewing) with some friends, which included little baby Ria and therefore involved lots of photo taking. Josh has a super spiffy camera and I'm waiting of the photos of me to be sent my way.
Tomorrow and Sunday I'm off to see Yamato perform before they go off for 6 months on tour. So I'll be giving Fluffypants his little present as long as I don't, you know, faint from simply being around him!
Life is good. Life is fun.
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Which means all change for me! I finished up with my old job about a week ago and next week go for training for my brand new job. Not entirely sure what to expect, but I'm sure I'll manage just fine.
In the mean time, what has been happening.
Graduation has come and gone, I got to say goodbye to those who were graduating but not any of the other students. Yet and of the other ALTs in my area (who work for the same company) who were leaving, they got up to a week to tell the students they were leaving. I was denied that by the Principle. All the other teachers thought I should be allowed to say something. But no. So that rubbed me the wrong way in the last week of school.
I had to juggle around with my visa yet again because of the whole changing jobs thing. So yet more money into the immigration system simply to change my work status. And because of it I lost the nice lovely 3 years that I had, I got downgraded to a 1 year visa. Sucky system sucks.
I have had two leaving parties. The first I cried a lot because of alcohol and it being my first real send off in my 4 years working here. The second was better because I didn't have to stand up and give a speech, I did get very drunk though.
I took a trip up a mountain to go exploring. I got lost up said mountain because the map was awful and the places it said I could go were barely signposted as soon as you got out of the centre bubble. It was beautiful and well worth the effort though.
I did hanami (cherry blossom viewing) with some friends, which included little baby Ria and therefore involved lots of photo taking. Josh has a super spiffy camera and I'm waiting of the photos of me to be sent my way.
Tomorrow and Sunday I'm off to see Yamato perform before they go off for 6 months on tour. So I'll be giving Fluffypants his little present as long as I don't, you know, faint from simply being around him!
Life is good. Life is fun.
Also more Child of Light videos.
Click to viewAlso twitter.