A big 'See You!' to my old job

As you may or may not know, I decided to leave my current jobs because of a better job I was offered in a bigger city. I will soon be leaving Mishima, and moving to Shizuoka City. Here, I'll be the lead teacher of a brand new school opening in April, called the JAA Wing English Acadamy. JAA is a big company in Japan which has many different school for teaching many different things. They have Japanese drum schools, music/dance schools, pilot training centres, flight attendant schools - and now an English school!

Now, in memory of my old school and where I have been for the last eight months, I will post pictures of my favourite students and groups!

  Chesaco here, wore lipstick and pink every day.            

 Minami and Atsumi liked to colour - ALOT. 

Spring Cherry Trees

Mishima is home to one of the six most beautiful and influential shrines in the history of Japan, and also happens to be where I live.  The shrine is now most famous for having one of the oldest fragrant olive trees in Japan (yeah, they keep track of that) and for the weeping willow-style cherry blossoms that bloom every spring. My sister happened to visit at the perfect time to catch the cherry blossoms. I have visited Mishima Taisha many times, and it was only clear to me why this place was famous after my last visit. The cherry blossoms really bring the shrine to life. 

Ori is here!

So my sister Oriana was able to convince her teacher's college at Queens to send her to Japan on a paid bursary to volunteer at Mac Eikaiwa. Cool! Since I'm changing jobs as of her last working day, her priority jobs are things to prepare for the new teacher to come (aka. the things I'm supposed to be doing but didn't particularly want to do). Other than just hanging out at my work, we have also done a little sightseeing. 

Changing schools

As of next week I will be moving to a new school in a new city. Working at Mac Eikaiwa has been fun, but I was offered something better in a different. I'm going to be moving to Shizuoka City, the capital of my prefecture. Here, I'll be working at a brand new school that will be opening the first of April. This English school is on the first floor of a building that is also a dance studio, so will always be very energetic. I've only been to the new school once, but after I go again with my camera I will post some pictures of it!