Teaching

Teaching English is inevitable if you come to Japan without anything concrete planned. But once you have enough Japanese under your belt, you can teach just about anything that you are knowledgeable about.

English teaching is how I got my footing and it's really hard to let it go. My youngest student is 4 years old. My oldest is a retired businessman. I still love what I do but if you've been here as long as me (13 years as of this posting) you can go a little crazy, if English teaching is all you do. I guess that is why a lot of foreigner go back in the first few years.

Several years ago I was an executive of the Shizuoka chapter of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teachers) and was given the title of "Swiss Army Knife". What was unexpected was that that title would become the subject hot debate at the next national executive meeting.