#490--Oops I'm in Japan.
And have been for the last week, actually. I don't have internet (currently stealing from a neighbors unprotected wifi), so I have been really limited to what I can do and stuff. I've been on twitter, but that's pretty much it.
My body has finally adjusted to the time difference. The jet lag wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. My body just shut down around 10pm every night and woke up at 6am every morning. It's not necessarily a bad schedule, since I have to be at school at 9:30 every morning, but even with the 8 hours of sleep I never felt really rested until yesterday when I actually slept until my alarm. It's getting obvious that I'm used to it though, because I actually stayed up past midnight last night.
It's been amazing so far though. The school and all my coworkers have been extremely helpful this past week while I adjusted to everything. No complaints on that end. Or on any end, really. I wish I had more to update about but I sadly don't because I haven't had the time or the energy to really explore, and I don't know how to navigate the buses. .___. The vice principal gave me a bus schedule, but as you can imagine it's in Japanese. She and one of the English teachers picked me up from the airport, took me out to dinner, and got me to my apartment. The next day the VP came and got me and walked me around. She walked me to the school, walked me to Apita, which is basically all I'll ever need in life in one building (grocery store, clothes, places to eat), got me a cell phone (which I'm assuming will come out of my paycheck, along with rent), and has just been amazing to me, even if her English is about as good as my Japanese.
My apartment is on the fifth floor with no elevators, so I am going to have a fantastic pair of legs at some point. It takes me about 20-30 minutes to walk to school in the morning, and it's about a 10 minute walk to Apita. There is also a convenience store along the way, which I'm going to venture to today because I didn't feel like getting groceries this morning and I am running out of food.
My first week of work was relatively uneventful. The first day the secretary and I ran around the city of Komaki and got the majority of everything taken care of (bank accounts and registering my immigration card with the city). The other days has been me studying the curriculum and watching the other English teachers classes. I have two training sessions coming up. One session is from Oct. 21-23 in Tokyo, and the other is Nov. 15 in Osaka, just for the day. It's exciting that I'm getting to go, but a tease all the same because I'm not actually going to be able to see anything. I'll make physical notes of how we got there though so I can make my way back at some point.
I'm super happy, guys. I can't even put it into proper words.
My body has finally adjusted to the time difference. The jet lag wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. My body just shut down around 10pm every night and woke up at 6am every morning. It's not necessarily a bad schedule, since I have to be at school at 9:30 every morning, but even with the 8 hours of sleep I never felt really rested until yesterday when I actually slept until my alarm. It's getting obvious that I'm used to it though, because I actually stayed up past midnight last night.
It's been amazing so far though. The school and all my coworkers have been extremely helpful this past week while I adjusted to everything. No complaints on that end. Or on any end, really. I wish I had more to update about but I sadly don't because I haven't had the time or the energy to really explore, and I don't know how to navigate the buses. .___. The vice principal gave me a bus schedule, but as you can imagine it's in Japanese. She and one of the English teachers picked me up from the airport, took me out to dinner, and got me to my apartment. The next day the VP came and got me and walked me around. She walked me to the school, walked me to Apita, which is basically all I'll ever need in life in one building (grocery store, clothes, places to eat), got me a cell phone (which I'm assuming will come out of my paycheck, along with rent), and has just been amazing to me, even if her English is about as good as my Japanese.
My apartment is on the fifth floor with no elevators, so I am going to have a fantastic pair of legs at some point. It takes me about 20-30 minutes to walk to school in the morning, and it's about a 10 minute walk to Apita. There is also a convenience store along the way, which I'm going to venture to today because I didn't feel like getting groceries this morning and I am running out of food.
My first week of work was relatively uneventful. The first day the secretary and I ran around the city of Komaki and got the majority of everything taken care of (bank accounts and registering my immigration card with the city). The other days has been me studying the curriculum and watching the other English teachers classes. I have two training sessions coming up. One session is from Oct. 21-23 in Tokyo, and the other is Nov. 15 in Osaka, just for the day. It's exciting that I'm getting to go, but a tease all the same because I'm not actually going to be able to see anything. I'll make physical notes of how we got there though so I can make my way back at some point.
I'm super happy, guys. I can't even put it into proper words.