an important update
ya know, i've been using this thing very little. and when i do, my entries are brief. hasn't really been anything big in my life as of late. it's a very ghostly existence.
but it finally came. ki-ta. i'm officially moving to japan on may 9.
i applied to AEON in january and made it to group interviews. which was the first round. there were four other candidates at the interview. at the time, we didn't know if they would pick the best of us or multiple candidates to move on to the second round interview. i had to do a 5-minute teaching demonstration. it went okay but not exactly as planned. and the other guys had really good demos too. so i really didn't know what my chances were.
a few days later, AEON called me and offered me the second round interview. it was a personal interview. the day i went, i was actually feeling sick. they asked all the questions i expected. still, i stumbled alot like miss south carolina. i was just out of it. so once again, i couldn't tell if i would be offered the job. they had 2 weeks to get back to me.
a week and a half later, on valentine's day, they called and offered me the job. i got excited and told my parents, who had just gotten back from a month long vacation in the philippines a few days before. they congratulated me. they were a bit surprised and hesitant. i don't blame them. it's a big deal.
it takes 2 to 3 months to get a work visa accepted, so they were really hiring me at the earliest possible time when they offered me a may position. i could have been waiting for months and months to be placed at a school, as they have 300 in japan. so i have seventy-seven days before i leave california behind. for at least a year. longer if i really enjoy it.
i'm excited and terrified at the same time. they were able to place me in a location i preferred so i feel really lucky. i'll be living near nagoya in a suburban town called inuyama. nagoya is where my friends from the volunteer camp live, so i hope to visit them. i'll live near an internet cafe and there's a place to learn japanese too. the place where i'll work will be a five minute walk from my apartment. so i'm stoked about that. it's a full time job and there' not much vacation time, so i'm uncertain how much traveling i'll get to do. but hopefully it'll work out.
i'm scared about all these changes. i dunno how hard it will be for me to be a teacher. i dunno if i'll get homesick. i dunno if i'll like the staff i work with. and it's a year long commitment. but i told myself that if i made it this far, then it was God's will and i wouldn't stop. i have to try. i have to follow my dreams. n hopefully, i'll come back home stronger.
God, please watch over all of us...
but it finally came. ki-ta. i'm officially moving to japan on may 9.
i applied to AEON in january and made it to group interviews. which was the first round. there were four other candidates at the interview. at the time, we didn't know if they would pick the best of us or multiple candidates to move on to the second round interview. i had to do a 5-minute teaching demonstration. it went okay but not exactly as planned. and the other guys had really good demos too. so i really didn't know what my chances were.
a few days later, AEON called me and offered me the second round interview. it was a personal interview. the day i went, i was actually feeling sick. they asked all the questions i expected. still, i stumbled alot like miss south carolina. i was just out of it. so once again, i couldn't tell if i would be offered the job. they had 2 weeks to get back to me.
a week and a half later, on valentine's day, they called and offered me the job. i got excited and told my parents, who had just gotten back from a month long vacation in the philippines a few days before. they congratulated me. they were a bit surprised and hesitant. i don't blame them. it's a big deal.
it takes 2 to 3 months to get a work visa accepted, so they were really hiring me at the earliest possible time when they offered me a may position. i could have been waiting for months and months to be placed at a school, as they have 300 in japan. so i have seventy-seven days before i leave california behind. for at least a year. longer if i really enjoy it.
i'm excited and terrified at the same time. they were able to place me in a location i preferred so i feel really lucky. i'll be living near nagoya in a suburban town called inuyama. nagoya is where my friends from the volunteer camp live, so i hope to visit them. i'll live near an internet cafe and there's a place to learn japanese too. the place where i'll work will be a five minute walk from my apartment. so i'm stoked about that. it's a full time job and there' not much vacation time, so i'm uncertain how much traveling i'll get to do. but hopefully it'll work out.
i'm scared about all these changes. i dunno how hard it will be for me to be a teacher. i dunno if i'll get homesick. i dunno if i'll like the staff i work with. and it's a year long commitment. but i told myself that if i made it this far, then it was God's will and i wouldn't stop. i have to try. i have to follow my dreams. n hopefully, i'll come back home stronger.
God, please watch over all of us...