Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

Nice story on firefly’s blog (the site is gone!) about how he was fired on his second lesson teaching English in Japan. The blogger is an Australian living in Japan who initially traveled to the land of the rising sun to learn some martial arts. After being in Tokyo for a little while he realised that he had come to like Japan and decided that he wanted to live here. Funds running a little low he had to find a job. Now finding a job in Japan is pretty easy, but not if you dont have a visa, a degree, Japanese language skills, contacts or any experience. Not impossible - England’s hapless cricket team have it worse - but requiring a fair amount of leg work.

Here is the post: Fired on my second lesson of teaching English.

Update (30/01/2007) Part two has been posted - Applying to 115 companies to try to get a job.

Just as amusing and interesting. The show rolls on!

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Found this neat little tool that allows you to look up words from the definition.

So I put in small furry mouse catcher as a kind of test. And look at the results - pretty cool eh!

A search for “New Zealand flower arrangement” came up with Mike Moore which was amusing. A more normal search for “Japanese flower arrangement” gave us ikebana - the correct result.

The reverse dictionary site is at onlook.com. Perfect if you just can’t remember “that” word. And we all know how often that happens.

Good too if you are learning English and want to increase your word power.

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