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Tomorrow I start my teaching job again and with the day counter on the left racking a mere 320 days spent in Japan it means that it will have taken a staggering 321 days for both me and Reiko to be in full time jobs in Japan. I haven`t worked properly for almost three months and although the free time given is of course great it is weighed down by not having any money to buy the legions of shiny gadgets seen on an average day around in Japan.

I`m out of practice as well for school teaching. For my first lesson I am doing the same games and activities that I did before from last October. Whistles and sponge footballs are key. They are enough to keep me happily amused for hours and so I`m hoping the kids will be entertained for forty minutes.

I went to the immigration office yesterday and discovered that they had cunnigly enough given me the wrong forms, they sorted it out easily enough (I of course wore the fake Hermes tie of mythical powers to facilitate the process.) I am applying for a certificate of eligibility which I can then produce to get the visa. If this doesn`t come in time I will have to go home.

But I`m coming back.