Sunday Evening

Just sitting around, reviewing notes for my Politics of Identity exam tomorrow and listening to some Soma FM.

Yesterday I was hired by a company as a teacher, but it's not the sort of job that you show up and get a salary.  This company finds students who want to learn English in and around whatever areas you specify.  My university is pretty centrally located in Tokyo, so I have lots of options there, plus my new apartment is in Kawasaki, so, yeah.  Once the company hooks you up with a student, you meet them at a cafe and do a trial lesson; if they like that, then you get started on weekly lessons.  Each private lesson pays ¥3000; group lessons can pay as high as ¥5000. So I would really only need about ten or so of these a week to get by.

Oh, yeah, right: new apartment. A friend from Highline and I got a place in Kawasaki, but a kind of quiet, out-of-the-way place.  Two bedrooms, although you have to walk through one to get to the other. The building owner is sorting that out by bringing in some shelving units to act as a wall/hallway, and also as shelving.  It also has all the appliances, which is really convenient. Most Japanese apartments don't include refrigerators and washing machines and so forth.  We even get a few sticks of furniture.  Moving in the next couple of weeks or so.

I also walked by a bar last night that clearly had some live blues going, so I walked up to the little place on the third floor and hung around there quite a while.  Made some new friends and I'll be playing at their next blues jam, which is December 27th.  I'm looking forward to that.  I haven't had a chance to perform in quite a while.

Think I'll go downstairs and have a nice soak in the sento before going to bed.  That is the one thing I'll miss about living here: a bathroom that somebody else has to clean.