Back at the grind

Work is up in full force right now, nothing terribly interesting to report. We have a new perspective teacher in though. And her story is pretty interesting.

At my school we have foreign teachers and Japanese teachers. The system works pretty good. The Japanese teachers teach most of the lower classes, and we do all the higher ones (some lower ones too). This works cause we have study meetings with ALL of our students to talk about how to study, why they are here...ect...

The really really low level students wouldn't be able to tell me any of this, but they can tell the Japanese teachers. However, our 'possible' new teacher isn't Japanese; she's Brazilian. She moved to Japan when she was 10 and acts (and looks for the most part), Japanese.

In a country where there is some real backward racism problems, it's really nice to see our school is not afraid of being progressive.


kudos.