My new teaching job

Utsunomiya is a lot more inaka (rural) than I thought. Getting Internet access is difficult at best, so I can only blog every now and then.

So far, my job seems okay, but then I am still getting orientated, so reality hasn't really sank in yet. The boss keep complaining to me about the teachers; and the teachers keep telling me to watch out for our boss and her tricks, and how she mistreats everyone, so much so that I am starting to feel as though I am walking in a minefield, alone, not sure which side my loyalty belongs. But then after PAVC, I like to think I am well prepared for administrative BS.

So far, the boss seems nice enough to me, and I take care to always say my thank-you's. She helped me with orientions in the city and even took me to Daiso to shop for things I need for my new apartment, so I am grateful. However, she does seem to be always running late, and always in a rush. I have seen how she yells at the sales-manager in the office, all the time, so it makes me nervous. Personally, I think it's rather poor in terms of management / leadership to be yelling and rushing all the time.

Today is my first weekend after a long week of work. I am only supposed to teach 25 hrs a week, but I have to put in a surprising amount of office hour. Well okay, not like I have to, but I am still so new to the job, I have to look up teaching materials, write up the lesson plan for the month and copy them for the parents, make notes about students and what happened in class... and even shop for my own games. My adult "eikaiwa" students are also asking for structured lessons with drills on idioms and Eiken/TOEIC preps, so I have to draft lesson plans for the adult lessons too (instead of just relax and go chat as my employer had promised.) So... so far, so hectic.