Scholastic Update

Hey you guys remember that neat old little Masters degree I was working my way towards for the last three years... well It's finally going to be awarded to me!!!

Next February.

And then you ask... but didn't you submit your final thesis a year and a month ago? YES. And isn't February 2008 still 4 months ago? YES. Then doesn't that mean that the univeristy is incompetently slow? YES

But none the less... FINALLY my hands can grab onto it!

In the mean time I had realized that I hadn't been paying ridiculously large sums of money to anyone for schooling... "THIS CAN'T BE!" I said to myself. And so, I have signed up for YES another EXPENSIVE schooling experience.

If you haven't heard of the CELTA then google it. It's costing me the better part of a 2 week vacation in Tahiti to get myself certified, but this is about the future... I am planning on teaching more and more and MORE (said with excitement) English! The CELTA will be beneficial (I beleive.)

Oh yeah, to save reading all the google details, CELTA is a 20 day intensive course in teacher training. Since I don't have 20 free days, it is offered every Saturday for 20 weeks! How great... except that the only place in Japan that does this is Kobe.

Get out a map.

Find Nagoya... Find Kobe... measure the distance... and then ask me HOW LONG does it take to get their every Saturday? "Get there and back, you mean?" 3 hours by subway and bullet train or 5 hours by subway and bus. and then you ask me HOW MUCH does that bullet train cost? "Let's just say its not a pretty number".

Nonetheless the course is very interesting (I started it 3 weeks ago) so far and I'm learning lots! So wish me luck.