Another life update
お久しぶり~~~
Long time no see.
Many changes happened in my life the last past months.
Handed in my thesis, and because my prof doesn't know much of my topic it was only a OK grade from her. finished all my written and oral exams in January.
So now I'm a M.A. (still waiting for my certificate).
Worked my ass off at work, because they fired everybody due to restructure of the company. So all the part time stuff had to fill in the empty slots from the other workers. Worked more than double of my normal working hours....
So because of the ending of my part time job at the end of march and my graduation I looked for a normal Job. Unfortunately the JET-program didn't worked out for me this time I looked for other options.
All the job offers I found in Germany never came back to me or told me they had too many applicants for one position so they couldn't hire me this time.
I got lucky when I applied for a position in an international preschool in Nagoya. They told me they would like to work with me. And so I'm working in Japan again since the beginning of April.
Before that I had a great time in the USA with summerqueen and irea . With lots of cherry blossoms, walking, sightseeing and on my last evening the L'arc en Ciel concert in Madison Square Garden.
So now I'm living in Nagoya, only 10 minutes away from Nagoya station and try my best at being an English teacher again ^^. I'm the homeroom teacher of the 2 to 3 year old kids. The first days I had lots of crying kids in my class, because half of my class is new to school and never were separated from their parents before. Hopefully it will be better soon. On Saturdays I have classes with elementary school kids, and tomorrow I have my first parents observation (this is so Japanese even in an international school XD) and in two weeks I have have my first teacher-parents conference. I almost feel like teaching in a real school XD.
My roommate, a Australian girl, is really nice and our apartment is quite big compared to other apartments here in Nagoya. Lucky us ^^ Just the train track right in front of my window are a bit .... lets say loud ^^; but you can get used to everything~~
SO I try to update our Japan-blog http://vanira.livejournal.com regularly but I won't promise XD otherwise pictures can always be found at my facebook~
Long time no see.
Many changes happened in my life the last past months.
Handed in my thesis, and because my prof doesn't know much of my topic it was only a OK grade from her. finished all my written and oral exams in January.
So now I'm a M.A. (still waiting for my certificate).
Worked my ass off at work, because they fired everybody due to restructure of the company. So all the part time stuff had to fill in the empty slots from the other workers. Worked more than double of my normal working hours....
So because of the ending of my part time job at the end of march and my graduation I looked for a normal Job. Unfortunately the JET-program didn't worked out for me this time I looked for other options.
All the job offers I found in Germany never came back to me or told me they had too many applicants for one position so they couldn't hire me this time.
I got lucky when I applied for a position in an international preschool in Nagoya. They told me they would like to work with me. And so I'm working in Japan again since the beginning of April.
Before that I had a great time in the USA with summerqueen and irea . With lots of cherry blossoms, walking, sightseeing and on my last evening the L'arc en Ciel concert in Madison Square Garden.
So now I'm living in Nagoya, only 10 minutes away from Nagoya station and try my best at being an English teacher again ^^. I'm the homeroom teacher of the 2 to 3 year old kids. The first days I had lots of crying kids in my class, because half of my class is new to school and never were separated from their parents before. Hopefully it will be better soon. On Saturdays I have classes with elementary school kids, and tomorrow I have my first parents observation (this is so Japanese even in an international school XD) and in two weeks I have have my first teacher-parents conference. I almost feel like teaching in a real school XD.
My roommate, a Australian girl, is really nice and our apartment is quite big compared to other apartments here in Nagoya. Lucky us ^^ Just the train track right in front of my window are a bit .... lets say loud ^^; but you can get used to everything~~
SO I try to update our Japan-blog http://vanira.livejournal.com regularly but I won't promise XD otherwise pictures can always be found at my facebook~