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Calico
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I also work for PKC and the hours are pretty much what have kept me here. But yes commuting is a pain, especially for those of us with hotel schools (just got back from mine early this morning. And the isolation is another big deal. I have no friends in the town I live in, and if I want to hang out with others I have to go an hour away into Nagoya which costs a lot sometimes as well. (Because nobody's going to come out to where I live, ha.) Thankfully I'm a homebody so it doesn't bother me too much, but I could see a very social extrovert dying in my position.
My normal PKC hours are also 4-9ish, and that's working hours. I usually get home around 9:45 and leave at 3. So if you absolutely need evenings free then PKC really isn't that great of a deal (and most eikaiwa that I know of) but total working hours is nothing to laugh at here unless you have a full week sometimes. |
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CarolinaBen
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| Calico wrote: |
I also work for PKC and the hours are pretty much what have kept me here. But yes commuting is a pain, especially for those of us with hotel schools (just got back from mine early this morning. And the isolation is another big deal. I have no friends in the town I live in, and if I want to hang out with others I have to go an hour away into Nagoya which costs a lot sometimes as well. (Because nobody's going to come out to where I live, ha.) Thankfully I'm a homebody so it doesn't bother me too much, but I could see a very social extrovert dying in my position.
My normal PKC hours are also 4-9ish, and that's working hours. I usually get home around 9:45 and leave at 3. So if you absolutely need evenings free then PKC really isn't that great of a deal (and most eikaiwa that I know of) but total working hours is nothing to laugh at here unless you have a full week sometimes. |
Yes, I think I am the social extrovert who is dying. The isolation is more intense than I imagined it could be. The fact that it is impossible to find Japanese lessons in my area doesn't help either. |
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jillybean
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| Where did you all get placed, if you don't mind me asking..? |
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CarolinaBen
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| I'm in northern Tochigi. |
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dynastar
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| I said I'm ok with going anywhere and lucked out. I live in Hikone but my area is the Kyoto area...so obviously Kyoto is very close and I go there frequently. |
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Calico
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| I live in rural Gifu, right between the Nagoya metro and the mountainous countryside. I'm just in enough reach of Nagoya to make day trips every couple of weekends, just far enough that it's kinda expensive to do and I'm rather isolated. My town isn't bad though. All my amenities are pretty close. Now, some of the schools I work at up north in the mountains (such as my hotel school) make me really, really grateful that I live where I do compared to there, ha. |
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BlackPapermoon
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| i live in the capital city of mie prefecture, but its not urban at all ..u really need a car or a bike to get around. but u can always move after one year if you want to . im also in the middle of osaka,nagoya,and kyoto...but yea as i said before, i dun really have any freetime,but when i do its good to know these places ate close to me. |
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jillybean
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Calico wrote: |
| I live in rural Gifu, right between the Nagoya metro and the mountainous countryside. I'm just in enough reach of Nagoya to make day trips every couple of weekends, just far enough that it's kinda expensive to do and I'm rather isolated. My town isn't bad though. All my amenities are pretty close. Now, some of the schools I work at up north in the mountains (such as my hotel school) make me really, really grateful that I live where I do compared to there, ha. |
A hotel school? As in an English school in a hotel? I can't imagine that....I'm picturing you teaching in a ballroom or something. Is there a real classroom? |
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Calico
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Calico wrote: |
| I live in rural Gifu, right between the Nagoya metro and the mountainous countryside. I'm just in enough reach of Nagoya to make day trips every couple of weekends, just far enough that it's kinda expensive to do and I'm rather isolated. My town isn't bad though. All my amenities are pretty close. Now, some of the schools I work at up north in the mountains (such as my hotel school) make me really, really grateful that I live where I do compared to there, ha. |
A hotel school? As in an English school in a hotel? I can't imagine that....I'm picturing you teaching in a ballroom or something. Is there a real classroom? |
"hotel school" is a term we use for a school that's so far out of the way that there is no way for us to return home at night, so the company puts us up in a hotel for the week. Everything's paid by the company and we get a food allowance as well. I do this every month. |
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