a merkypie in japan

I found out about my schools a while back. I guess I’ll talk about them.

Yeah.

So, I’ll be teaching… five schools? I forgot, but my base is a junior high school and the rest are elementary schools. Pretty excited to have a set up like that. They’re all in the mountains, so that will be interesting! Florida doesn’t have mountains. The closet thing we call a mountain is a hill somewhere north of Orlando.

That, at a total elevation of 345ft, is what we call Sugarloaf Mountain. I think I can see Georgia from here.

After googling my school, I used my amazing stalking skills to find my base school’s website and found out that the school was recently renovated back in 2009. Too bad the website’s design hasn’t been updated since 1997. Anyway, since these pics I found were on the school’s website ~ hopefully ~ I won’t get into some trouble here.

The school looks huge. I never seen a school that big in my life. Middle schools in Florida are small, open corridor, and well… look like a middle school. It’s kind of like what you get when you slam an elementary school into a high school then create this bastard child that’s called middle school. It still looks cute but it has coke machines installed everywhere and all the students have these suck ass attitudes.

The teacher’s office. Which I assume is gonna be my home for the next year. It doesn’t matter if you’re working in an advertising firm or as a teacher, all Japanese offices look the same.

Also, one of the major highlights about my base school is that it has air conditioning units installed in every classroom (or so the school’s site said). But, the bigger question would be, do they actually use those aircons.

Even the bathrooms got upgraded! Though, who knows what lies beyond the stalls. Squat toilets? I guess I’ll find out in a month or two.

After stalking my base school’s website, I got some flurries in mah tummeh. I’m going to be a “teacher” to these kids. I can either be the best ALT they ever had or a funny looking gaijin for them to harass.

Or both.

先生先生、デッカイおっぱい〜 「おっぱい」は英語でなんですか?

I guess it’s better than getting kancho’d.

Or not.

しらない。

I hope the kids are mature enough not to ask such questions. :V I want adorable little childrens ;_;

It’s starting to really hit me the situation I’ve seem to have landed myself into. I am excited and scared all at the same time. What if my Japanese skills ain’t good enough. What if I’m a crappy teacher. What if I like offend someone or something idk. So many feels rn :(

this is going to be me at tokyo orientation. i swear.

 

  • Travis

    Ah, your school looks so awesome! Youre right, this does not look like any middle school that I have seen in Florida (haha). How did you learn (and, how do you practice) Japanese? Did you take it at University?

  • http://nipponrina.blogspot.com Lena

    mm Tokyo Orientation. I wonder how much will be valuable information, and how much is just common sense (but unfortunately some are not all there so they have to go over it anyway).

  • http://journeytotheeast2012.wordpress.com/ Clare

    I am also nervous about actually teaching. Living in a foreign country with a bunch of people staring at your all the time, speaking a language you hardly know? Fine.

    Teaching little kids? …..

    • http://nipponrina.blogspot.com Lena

      oddly enough, i feel i would prefer little kids to high schoolers. hmm…