Better late...?

Oh dear, I just checked and my last update was in July! Sorry!
Well in August, I went on holiday with my family to Turkey. It was a really lovely holiday. Great place, delicious food, good company (my Japanese teacher joined us too) and good activities. I tried scuba diving, sea kayaking, mountain biking, paragliding, and my favourite, canyoning which was superb, oh and lots and lots of swimming in turquoise sea! Then spent 24 hours at home before flying back to Tokyo.

Since then, it has been full-on. I have moved house (not as easy as it may seem), changed the schools where I teach (still at the same company for now) and been studying really hard. I am taking a Japanese proficiency test in December and consequently spend most of my evenings with my nose in books. It is making sense to me though so thats nice. I will be taking level 3, but for Japanese to ever be of real use to me I will need to take level 2 next year - quite a jump but I want to give it ago! For level 2 I will have to know 1000 kanji including at least 2 readings of each kanji. Plus extra grammar and vocabulary of course. That said, learning Japanese has become my only real hobby here so I should stand a good chance! (such a nerd) It does mean though that I have committed myself to another year in Japan!

I am also in the process of looking for and applying for new jobs. In April when the new academic year starts, I'd like to start teaching high school level. On verra.

So apolpogies for the long absence. Will try to have something more wild and wacky to recound next time but for now, Oyasumi nasai.