Back To Work

Well I am back at work after a two-week break and god do I hate it. Like most English-speaking foreigners here I am an English teacher because it's the only job the Japanese government will allow me to do easily, so no real choice in the short term. It's back to teaching kids who have no interest in learning because they are sent or dumped at the school by their parents and bored housewives who have no knowledge of the world outside their own front doors. Maybe I am being a bit harsh, but in reality the average Japanese is extremely narrow minded and knows little apart from the prejudiced views fed to them by their old conservative politicians (quite a few of which are or are related to convicted class A war criminals) and biased news agencies. I suppose that I have at least the chance to give them another view of the world, if they are either interested or capable of understanding.