The blog of a young British woman taking on a new life in Japan as an assistant language teacher. No, I've never been to Japan before this, I don't speak the language, nor have I ever stood up in front of a class and taught before. This should be interesting...

Monday, 26 March 2007

Cross the T's, dot the I's...

Today was our first day of training. Ho hum. Not feeling v.positive about it at the moment, possibly because I didn't get much sleep last night, or possibly because training went on from 9am to 4.30pm and felt a little too much like school, I don't know.
There was just so much paper work to go through- and all the do's and don't (by the way the don'ts soooooo outnumber the do's that it's unfunny) and so much to think about that my head feels like it was stuck in a tumble drier. I can't even really tell you all the ins and outs as I've signed a confidentiality clause- but it isn't overly interesting anyway.

I'm overdramatising somewhat- I lean towards doing that, but its possible that I'm realising that this task I've set myself is a lot bigger than I first thought.

Annie rocking the secretary look.

Karen poses for a photo Japan style.

Check out corporate San.

If I look less than entheused it may be due to the fact that I took this directly after the training let out....
Don't take this entry wrong- I know I'm going to have up and down days- and today had it's good points- I'm surrounded by creative and happy people who obviously love what they do, and that inspires me. Sure, I'm still working myself up to my 5 minute class presentation tomorrow (which I've yet to put together by the way) and trying not to be nervous, because this is what I'm doing now- Watashi wa kyoshi des= I am a teacher.
I just have to suck it up and get on with it. I'll let you know how that goes...