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I always expected to require a worker’s permit before starting work in Japan. Unfortunately… based of japan-guide.com’s forum… it taakes up to 3 months (or one semester) to get my worker’s permit completed, if they let me work at all.
sigh
Well I am staying there for a year this time. so it’s 1/4 of the year… still… i was hoping to get the ball rolling within a month. That’s how long it takes to get my gaijin card… i thought they’d let my worker’s permit to process for a month too. Also since I’m a student, I have limited amount of hours to work. I think 20 hours a work. I don’t mind. I was planning on one hour each day of teaching. I think one good way to advertise my teaching is posting up flyers in the Rikkyo campus. That way less chance of weird salaryman who can stalk me. I might have to buy a taser and pepperspray… those trains… you never know. Take that!!! Yea, don’t mess with gaijin women! we react!!
Well during the summer… i’ve raised $2,335. Right now I’m doing babysitting for this family. I think with what she’s agreed to pay me… i might make it to $3000 by the time I have to leave. I leave September 10th. She said $10 an hour (looks like 5 days a week) and i start work at 7 am (oof) and end around 3?? plus she gives me extra for gas money (she said about $20-$25 based off how much i drive). My mom actually pays for gas. So it’s more like a bonus for me… shhh… not teling… I wonder if the gas money is per hour though… hmm.. i’ll find out. But during downtime with the kids, i’ll study my Japanese. :-D

I have a mixi now! yay! so now i’m in contact with my japanese friends and i can practice reading and writing Japanese. I hope my grammar is correct though in my 日記. shrug
I also got a free 電子辞書 program for my sony clie (pda). Best part is that it’s made for English speakers. So it’ll have furigana under the kanji I can’t read. And if I ever do see Kanji that I can’t read, I can literally write it into the program and do a search for it. The only downside is that I have to do the stroke order exactly right… or else it doens’t know what I’m writing. Chances of me knowing the exact stroke order for a 知らない漢字… low… like 最小限 low….
In addition to that, i got another free program called Metro, which tells me how to get from one train station to another. It includes all the parts of Japan, including okinawa, also Seoul, Hong Kong, Tacoma, WA, places in Europe. Though of course, Tokyo/Yokohama area is the most important to me. It tells me how to get from Oizumi-gakuen to Ikebukuro (my dorm and location of my future school) and how long it will take.
Last program I got (also free) is called NxTrain. It tells me when my next train will leave, although I have to put the schedule in myself… pretty tedious work, but when i’m done doing it it’s pretty convienient. I know the trains in Japan are pretty consistent, but when it’s past midnight and I’m borderline on time for the last train… it’s good information to know.

So those are 私の準備です。

report card came in.. or transcript ahem sorry. I’m in college. Anyways… since my art teacher hates me and gave me a C+ even though he was acting optimistic about my work… i have a lower GPA than last time. Everything else I got B’s and even one A! So yea.. now i have a 3.08… not a 3.09… :-(

I’m studying abroad in Japan for a year soon… i’ll do my best!