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[Apsara]

Just a friendly hint, Schick, when you are applying for jobs here watch your use of capitals, punctuation, and the usage of "your" vs "you're", "there" vs "their", "they're" in your application and cover letter, plus any written tests you might take during the interview.

I know people take less care in posts on internet forums than they would in applying for jobs, so you would probably write more carefully, but you asked if it is easy to find jobs in Japan- they do look at things like punctuation and spelling when deciding who to hire. You don't have to be perfect, but some of your sentences have really unusual uses of capitals in the middle of the sentence and odd punctuation- I don't mean to be critical, just something to be aware of.

[johanne]

Schick,

The school's name was Minerva Gakuin, but I have no idea if it is still in existance. I worked there 14 years ago. It was based in Nagoya and had about 15 branche offices, with about 10 small schools under each branch, between Shizuoka and Okayama. It was 100% teaching kids - toddlers to 6th graders with no one over the age of 12, so if you don't like kids this isn't the place. I think you'll find, though, that if you do more research there are a number of small school who like to hire WHV people because it saves them all the hassles of dealing with immigration and sponsoring visas. These schools don't really care that much about the teachers having degrees, especially if the majority of classes are for kids.

By the way, when I was single I lived on about 2 million yen a year which at today's exchange rate means about $16,000 CDN, so your 10,000 should take you a long way.

Good luck

[Schick]

[Schick]

Sorry this question is off Topic

I Also got an international drivers license. I ride a streetbike here in Canada. honda cbr 600

Any riders out their, who know if you can rent streetbikes.

Would be amazing to rent streetbikes on weekends and go see the country side