My First Couple Of Weeks In Japan
So I moved. In fact, I left the UK a couple of weeks ago, having only planned to do so a couple of months prior. When most people decide it's time to move out of their parent's house and start their independent lives, they don't necessarily feel that they need to travel nearly 6000 miles to do so. Not a bad backdrop to have when all you're used to is low rolling hills. Like many other recent graduates yearning for something entirely different to do with their lives, I had been looking into teaching English as a foreign language for some time, though my target destination had flipped between China, South Korea and various other countries before I decided on Japan. Why Japan? A combination of having visited last February, it being a developed and connected country (as opposed to rural China for example) and not needing a TEFL certification pretty much cemented Japan as the place to go. Just before the new year, I decided to apply for a job as an ALT (Ass...