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Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

Sad really.

Yawarakaijin · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 504 Location: Middle of Nagano

Very predictable Canuck Very Happy

Somehow you are still stuck on that notion that I "snuck through" on the Specialist in Humanities visa. If that's the case well then the Japanese government sure made it easy for me, pointing out exactly how I could "sneak through" by obtaining 3 years experience in the required field. You surely seem to have taken offence at me telling a poster about my experience.

You strike me as a snobbish elitist. I seem to remember quite a few of my teachers back home who must have graduated with their BA's in education and could not teach their way out of a wet paper bag so get off it. I fell into ESL quite by accident. Spent almost 5 years at an ESL school in Vancouver surrounded by people who had dedicated their professional lives to teaching ESL. I learned alot from them and valued everything they taught me and then used that experience to get to Japan. If it takes the piss out of you that I'm here without a 4 year degree then you can probably hear my violin playing. Very Happy

As for spelling mistakes, occasionally they do happen at 2:30 am, anyone who has made a spelling mistake please remove themselves from Dave's ESL cafe. You seem like the sort who would point out someones mistakes infront of others....do you do this to co-workers? You must get invited to alllllll the parties Very Happy

canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

Unreal.

sallycat · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 303 Location: behind you. BOO!

the hankyu department store's shoe section fronts onto my train station.

harlemknight · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 24

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canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan

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Lynn · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 696 Location: in between

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

6810 · Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 309

My Station is awesome, all the way out in the boonies but no punch perms or break dancers...

What I don't have is -

a ticket machine (told you it was boonies)

What I do have is -

A single platform surrounded by a pack of black cats (actual cats, this is not a metaphor), a small scale hand made Japanese confectionary shop, ricefields and vegetable gardens.

Canuck, I don't know you for anything - Lighten up and spend some of your days off away from the computer. My suggestion - start skating! I've found some ace new spots in Tempaku-ku, near Ueda subway station in Nagoya if you're around!

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

What up six-eight-one-oh,

Wonder if you or anyone can point me in the right direction for determining whether it is against the law to skateboard on streets or sidewalks in Japan?
Reason being, our principal chewed me out for skating to school a couple of years ago, I stopped. Well, I started again and today he chewed me out again, others chimed in about some new law banning skating that supposedly took effect in April.
I know people look down on skating but it's not a crime, as far as I know.
Any thoughts?

Skate on brother,
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6810 · Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 309

That's the first I've heard of it.

You work at High School, right?

I imagine there is an idea to do with social delinquency etc and that as a teacher, you are providing a bad influence (cos all skaters destroy property, get stoned, drop out of school etc Rolling Eyes

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As far as I know there is no law. But I don't know much. It could be a "policy" of the BOE or the school, it could also be a district as opposed to a national law or something. Again, I don't really know.

As an aside, I have skated to work dozens of times (Elementary School) and even had my brother come along and visit the schools (with permission of course) on his 6 footer! I had no trouble from the staff or anyone. Well, except for a few kids dying to ride our boards!

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

That's right on brother! Yeah, I know how they probably don't want the kids to start skating to school and the first time they told me I stopped, but since they are pulling the plug on me after this year I feel like it's my right. I suppose I will have to suck it up and carry my board from the station to the school, at least until I sort out the driver's license business. Total drag though, seeing as how it's nearly a 15-minute walk and I can do it kicking asphalt in less than five.
Ahhhhhhhh....just hate the idea of it, they have no problem firing me for no reason but when it comes to skateboarding...