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Today, I make a quick return to my old Japan blog.

I have begun upon another adventure to Japan. This time I am documenting my efforts in finding a teaching English job in Japan. For the past few months I have been applying like mad to many different kinds of eikaiwa, or English language schools. Up until a few weeks ago, I was not successful in the least. It has been rather disheartening, but it may also be attributed to the fact that most organisations hire around April and September.

However, a few weeks ago I decided to apply to Gaba Corporation. In the past I had avoided them because of their lack of benefits that most other English teaching jobs can offer. Now that we (my boyfriend and I) were getting desperate to find a job for June this year, we decided to apply. I received a reply within a few days, which was surprising. We received word that they were interested, and should complete a longer application for them to review.

We did so, and once again, within a couple of days we had a reply, which stated that they were interested in conducting either a Skype or landline interview with the two of us. One week later we were on the phone having our first English teaching interview.

We both passed that stage, and we forwarded a kind of written test. Included was demonstrating different tenses of "teach". This was actually quite challenging! I guess everything I learnt in High School English was forgotten…then again I couldn't remember any of the terms they had used. Anyway, I learnt something, and I hope I got them right!
We also had to demonstrate our story-writing ability, creating lesson plans for particular students, etc.

I haven't had any kind of English teaching experience, but most of it seemed to be common sense. Now I can only hope that they will enjoy my application, and that I will be offered a final interview. As of yet, my boyfriend hasn't completed his, and he has 24 hours to send it in! At least he already has two letters of reference; two of my lecturers haven't completed theirs yet, but I've been assured they will be finished and sent off tonight!

Fingers crossed!! Depite Gaba's reputation, I am looking forward to it, if they offer me/us a job.
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