My year teaching English in Japan - http://bit.ly/gMxslX

" This week I celebrate the conclusion of my first year back in Canada, after having spent the duration of 2009 living and working in Japan. Upon returning to Vancouver last winter, resisted the urge to write too much about the experience right away, if only because I felt the need to let sufficient time to pass before I offered any sweeping judgments or insights. You never quite know how the passage of months will change your perspective, and all that. In any case, now that a year has passed, I’m comfortable saying that I still look back at the experience with as much displeasure and discomfort as I did when I was actually living it. My time in Japan was a incredibly difficult and unpleasant time that I literally had to struggle with day-by-day — easily the most trying and agonizing phase of life I have yet experienced. At one point during my stay, I started reading the powerful book Working, by the famed American reporter Studs Terkel. Perusing the book’s collection of long, stream-of-consciousness rants from laborious Americans of all professions and walks of life, I thought it would be interesting to write an essay of my own working experiences in Japan in a similarly raw style. Reading over it today, I think the piece still describes my conclusions of the experience, and brings back powerful memories of what that year was like. It’s pretty personal, but I hope you nevertheless gain something from it." Article Source:  http://www.filibustercartoons.com/index.php/2010/11/30/my-year-teaching-english-in-japan/ Shared and posted by TESOL certification, Natalie