swedish project: revealed

Recognise the face above? Sure you do. Who is it then? Johanna? That'd be Johanna-sensei for you, please. That's right - I've gone against one of my top-3 Principles of Life and become a teacher. The JoJo has got a job!

Thus is the Swedish Project revealed and divulged and disclosed all at once. A few weeks ago I sent an e-mail to the Swedish school in Tokyo, basically saying Hi, I'm here, I'm Swedish, hire me? and I got a semi-positive reply saying that they'd keep my name etc. In other words, never thought I'd hear from them again. But I did. Yesterday. I missed the calls and only returned them this morning. Turns out they needed someone and asked me to come in already this evening! I just got back now.

You are officially reading the words of the new Teaching Assistant at Tokyo International School! Once a week I'll go to Mita (close to where my university is) and help, or 'assist' if you will, the teacher (24 years old guy) in a group with fourteen 6-8 year-olds! I'll do a total of 2 hours' work but they have small breaks in between sessions. The kids all seem very nice and it was so good to be able to speak some Swedish again! Maybe I won't forget it after all.

So yes, those are the big news. Very happy lady at the moment. Might have been the glass of wine I had with my new colleagues after class (I'm such a lightweight these days) but I'll take the current state of mind as a positive one.

Tomorrow I'm going to a gay club. Stay tuned for updates/photos/souvenirs (ew, no). Don't want to miss that!

Jo x