Job Interview

Everyone was up at their normal times this morning, Evan and I did our normal routine eating cereal, toast and coffee and watching kids shows on TV. We have to get ready quickly this morning to make it to my interview at Pi Pi International English School, I think we will leave at 10:00 am just to be on the safe side that we make it on time. We have never been there before and just want to allocate time if we get lost. It is not that far away, and probably only takes about 20 minutes to get there. Wish me luck!

The interview went well and I am very confident that I will get this job, another person was applying for the same position when I arrived but was an hour late, so maybe I already have the advantage since I was right on time. After the interview I hung around to observe how the other teachers operated with the children there. I saw about 8 children from ages 2-5 in attendance, and they all came over to talk with me and show me their art projects that they had just completed.

Playing with kids, doing art with them, singing and dancing and getting paid for it, while exposing the Japanese children to a English speaking environment, what more could you ask for? The person who interviewed me said that she would give me a call in 2-3 days to let me know what the results of my employment would be. From what I understood I will be working from 9 am to 5 pm 4 days a week and then 1 pm to 6 pm at a local Elementary school for one ore day, for a total of 37 hours per week.

The person who interviewed me said that Evan could attend also for free, this is like a big bonus being that this school is very expensive and charges about $500 a month for a 5 day week. My pay will be around $2000 dollars a month, which will provide us plenty of money for all of our expenses with a little less than half of it left over. Hokkaido rent is very cheap, now we are paying $160 a month, but have to move out in 4 more months since this house is allocated for the teachers that teach at Shibinai Elementary school, there is another house in front of us that is owned by the city and is newer and a little larger that costs $360 a month. We want to live there since we will be able to stay for as long as we are able to pay rent, so even if the school closes and the boys have to attend the next closest school our housing will be set.

The rest of the day was spent making a trip to a local Electronic Store to look for Koby a video game he has been wanting and then I played with the neighborhood kids until it started to get dark. For dinner we are having curry and rice, Yummy! One of my favorite dishes!

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