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Japan and Kitties
Jul. 23rd, 2006 05:18 pmWell, after much thinking this week, I have decided that I will accept the job offer with GEOS. I recieved all the bumpf in the post, including visa application forms, contratcs and employee handbook, and have had a look through it all with my mother and her HR eye. She seems pretty okay with it all. We sat at the dining table last night going over the details of the contract and she asked me if all this made me feel sick. Yes, it does. Not from a bad feeling about it all, but from the realisation that my life will be changing pretty dramatically at the end of this year (well, ithas already changed dramatically once this year, so what's another). I'll be by myself in a foreign country. Okay, I've done that before, but I was only there temporarily, I wasn't planning on living there. The way GEOS word thier contract and covering letter is quite serious - " once you have signed the contract, you are committed to GEOS, and we would be thoroughly disappointed if you could not go to Japan", or something to that effect. Jokes about signing in blood don't seem all that funny when you look at it!
Still, it's going to be a fabulous opportunity, not only to immerse myself in a totally alien culture, but to also develop my teaching skills. Teaching is the only job I've had where I've really wanted to improve myself. I enjoyed working in the bookshops, and always wanted to do well, but teaching is so enjoyable and rewarding, and with so many opportunities open within it that I definitely seems like I've finally found something I want to earn a living doing (the writing, we'll still have the top, but there's no living in that yet).
I've just found a furry footstool. His name is Nami and he's strectched out under the computer desk. Nice and warm against my cold toes. Speaking of cats, next door's cat (who I have named George) has been coming over to see us. Every morning he hangs out with the other cats waiting for breakfast, and mews very sweetly at you. His companion was run over a few months ago (in a comedic, yet tragic way - his owner ran over him reversing out of the driveway. He must have been asleep behind the car. She is now known as the 'cat murderer' in her house) so he seems to be on the prowl for new sources of companionship.
Still, it's going to be a fabulous opportunity, not only to immerse myself in a totally alien culture, but to also develop my teaching skills. Teaching is the only job I've had where I've really wanted to improve myself. I enjoyed working in the bookshops, and always wanted to do well, but teaching is so enjoyable and rewarding, and with so many opportunities open within it that I definitely seems like I've finally found something I want to earn a living doing (the writing, we'll still have the top, but there's no living in that yet).
I've just found a furry footstool. His name is Nami and he's strectched out under the computer desk. Nice and warm against my cold toes. Speaking of cats, next door's cat (who I have named George) has been coming over to see us. Every morning he hangs out with the other cats waiting for breakfast, and mews very sweetly at you. His companion was run over a few months ago (in a comedic, yet tragic way - his owner ran over him reversing out of the driveway. He must have been asleep behind the car. She is now known as the 'cat murderer' in her house) so he seems to be on the prowl for new sources of companionship.
