Category: ESL

The Interac Experience Part Three- School Begins!

On By Andy RoamsIn budget travel, ESL, Japan, teaching, travel4 Comments

After all was set up for life in Ichinoseki, I had to get ready for school. Except, as I said, there were nearly three weeks before I started, and three weeks before I’d be earning regular money. Coupled with the fact that Interac pays the end of the following month (i.e. march pay comes on …

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The Interac Experience Part One – Arrival and Orientation

On By Andy RoamsIn budget travel, ESL, Japan, teaching, travel12 Comments

It was a strange day when I arrived in Tokyo – well Narita Airport, actually in Chiba, in 2012. My wife and I had had to drop our honeymoon plans because I had been told that training for Interac would begin in April, but in fact started on the 20th of March. We’d got married …

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Japanese Survival Guide Point 7 – City Hall and Bureaucracy

On By Andy RoamsIn budget travel, ESL, Japan, teaching, travel, travel tips4 Comments

Winding down my Japanese Survival Guide now, with principally the third last post unless something else springs to mind, folks it’s time to prepare for the red tape that awaits the foreigner when you come to work in Japan as an ESL Teacher. The irony of it all is that Japan is a principally capitalistic …

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