It`s been a quiet few days, I`ve become part of the social commentary on Japan, and work has generally been okay. I`m suffering some kind of Brain malfunction at the moment, I constantly have this foggy brain syndrome where I`m unable to think quickly and I think the students are suffering because of it. I`m feeling like they aren`t getting good value for money at the moment, it may be that I`m suffering from dehydration in lessons but I need to snap out of it for my own sake if not for the students.

I`ve starting to get frustrated at some of the beauracracy at work, I had an excellent student who was ready to `level up` but the Area Manager decreed that I was unable to give the first LU (A student needs two LUs to be able to take a test which if they pass, moves them up the ability scale). This kind of worries me as it may affect my probation(which should have ended Nov. 30th).

I`ve been asking about it with my boss in my branch but he`s cagey about it as well. If I`m not off probabation and nobody is telling me what I have done wrong then I`m gonna start making complaints. It`s so frustrating not being told a simple thing as this. The levels of secrecy that are found often astounds and annoys me. Like I said in a previous post, the level of paranoia amongst instructors is unlike anywhere else I`ve worked. No one wants to say anything bad or complain, the rule of fear imposed is certainly working. I even have to consider that what I say on here may be used against m, but that may just be a mixture of paranoia and a deluded sense of my own notoriety. We shall see.

Other than this little drama, things are relatively calm at the moment, as we move towards Xmas, there will be more exciting things happening I`m sure. I`m off to a leaving do/Xmas party on Sunday night in Kashiwa, should be a good night, ￥４０００ all you can drink.

Until then,

mata ne!    またね！

p.s My spelling and grammar are really starting to be affected by the students, my apologies for any glaring mistakes, good job I don`t teach English…