Guy was a scapegoat pure and simple. You can't play a game of hangman with kids anymore? Is that how watered down ____ has to be now? We have to substitute any sort of violence/realism with cute...

I'm guessing this is in the somewhat-western part of Japan? I've heard some stories.

The flipside to not signing that paper is that you definitely wont get renewed if it's your first year and...

Had what I'm assuming to be a sales guy come to my door and asked if I was using NTT. He first guessed everything I was with and then said "ok, no problem". Not sure what to make of this? Sales...

Money's the same as anywhere else really. If you're in this country doing this line of work for the money then I feel bad for you. ;)

PROs

small(er) amount of time spent teaching
not really...

I'm currently set to work 15 days straight but the total number of hours still goes under 40 per week. Is my employer allowed to do this?

As much as I like George Carlin I think he was a little off on his environmental rant there. Tho i did get a good laugh when I first heard that speech of his way back, I'm pretty sure it's still on...

The UAE will come out on top after buying out key overseas corporations that have been failing. They're still burning money out there like it was the monopoly brand.

Hello everyone

I just picked up a new job in Hakata so I'll be moving there shortly. I live near Okayama and I own a pretty nice bicycle that I'm not willing to part with but I don't want to...

Actually I've given a great deal of thought about that. A good chunk of the teachers are at school before me and almost always remain there after me. Undoubtedly HRTs put in more time, especially...

Presenting word cards to a rhythm or tune works well. So does doing some kind of action that's associated with the word itself (eating an invisible apple while saying "apple" or swinging an...

Interesting stuff to know, there's been a good handful of classes I've taught solo this year. Actually I did one just last week haha. Being the cocky clown when I was young I know how kids react to...

Yes. It was pretty strange because for the first few months I wasn't sure if this was correct or not. It wasn't until reviewing my contract that something seemed amiss... you know with all the...

Thanks for the input. Unfortunately the whole program comes to a close this April so i'm SOL and looking for a new job (hence why I'm on Gaijinpot :) ). I wanted to get some other pov on this. ...

Hello, new guy here.

I'm just finishing up my 1 year contract as an ALT and had a few questions that frankly, should have been asked a long time ago.

The job was lots of fun, I love kids and...