Graduation!

Good evening!

I'm now officially Lauren-sensei. Woot! I have received my name tag and my official AEON lapel pin. Hee!

Training is officially over now (I can't believe it's been a week already!) and I've now got the weekend off for fun and enjoyment of all kinds. I'm planning on some shopping, just a little, and tonight (Friday night) all of us new teachers are headed out for some karaoke. Hahaha, I'll try to remember to take some pictures.

Life at the training house has been fun, but we'll all be happy to move on, and into our own apartments. We're tired of sharing 3 to a room, although the rooms are nice. Here's a peekypeek:



I did clear up that 6 tatami covers the area of the main living space, and that the kitchen and bath areas are in addition to that. I also learned that my apartment is a new apartment, other teachers haven't lived there before (many of the apartments they use are passed from teacher to teacher) so it will be much less 'lived in' than many of the other apartments that teachers receive. That does mean, however, that I won't be inheriting any hand me down furniture or a microwave. The apartments don't come standard with a microwave, but many teachers buy and leave them for other teachers, I won't have that luxury. I'll probably just buy one. Haha, whatevs.

I also found out that many of the new teachers were contacted by the teachers that they are replacing. I never had that luxury either. As it turns out the teacher I'm replacing actually returned home a while ago due to "family emergencies" and an emergency teacher has been working in his or her place at my school.

My school is well reputed and the location is highly strategic. My area is affluent and the restaurants and shopping are apparently quite good. The train line that I'm near is convenient and its only 10 or so minutes on the train to the main Yokohama station where there is quite a lot to do and see and from that station it's a short ride to Tokyo.

I'll be quite excited to move into my apartment and start getting settled. Work is going to be fun and I'm just....just....excited all around.

Just for kicks, here are some fun signs that I've found in the past couple days.

This one is the cutest "pick up your poo" sign ever:














Following that is the scariest "don't swim in this it's dangerous" sign ever. -->









And, to end this post, please find the following: a picture of one of my cue cards for one of my lessons. The card is an example of making a complaint. My lesson partner and I call this fellow the Toilet Paper Pirate.


He is complaining about the way that people hang toilet paper the wrong way. I just think he happens to look like a pirate..



...or possibly an angry frenchy.