Expect lots of updates soon!

For now, I’ll give a little bit of info on what has been going on since the semester ended and my long spring break started.

Recently, I started working at one of the partner universities here, 神田外語大学 (Kanda Gaigo Daigaku), the Kanda University of International Studies, or KUIS. KUIS is the campus that hosts the students who take part in the Society and Culture section of IES Tokyo. Anyways, about the job: it’s for teaching elementary students English as well as teamwork, through English lessons and then soccer-oriented activities that are used to practice what they learned earlier in the day. So far, we’ve only had our staff informational session, and the program won’t actually start until April, but I’m really looking forward to being able to get some teaching experience, no matter how little.

Also, I recently found out that I’m going to be getting a homestay for the coming semester. I’m going with our housing worker tomorrow to meet the family and hopefully we hit things off 🙂

After I stay with them for awhile, I plan to make a post talking about the differences between dorm and homestay living options, and asking some other people here for opinions on the topic. Hopefully it will help people decide what they want to do.

Other than that, all that’s been going on recently is studying for the placement test. My professor gave me two sets of 400 kanji to study and learn before the test, because the 500 placement is a lot harder, apparently. So far, progress has NOT been very fast, but there’s still a bit of time left until the program starts up (March 29th is arrival day). So, 頑張ります (I’ll do my best)!