It has been a little while so I thought I should check in on the blog and give a quick update. April is a busy month for Human Resources at my company. During this month all the interdepartmental and intercompany transfers kick in, and also it is the first month of work for newly hired employees fresh out of university.
I always start a new term in April, so we have to line up students and get them used to the course system and flow, and also we have to close the previous fiscal year and so some reports need to be published in English, and I always seem to catch a little work checking documents for people in between my regular classes.
Phew! That’s a lot to do. Luckily next month should be much more sane.
Yesterday I taught two special classes to the new employees, and also gave most of them an interview test to get an idea of their English speaking ability. This term the overall ability was pretty high, but we’ll need to work on the business side of their English, which seems to be lacking. I had fun teaching the classes, though. One student described a tomato plant he bought and put in his dormitory room. He is now living far from his family in Fukuoaka, so he said that the tomatoes are his family to keep him company. I asked him if he was planning on eating his family, and he proudly said yes.
This weekend we’re going over to have dinner at the Fukumi’s place. Last weekend everybody got together for an impromptu party at the Yamaji’s, so I don’t think we’ll have too much new to talk about, but it should still be fun. I’m going to try to eat and drink less than last weekend – I woke up with a serious hangover on Sunday and it pretty much knocked me out for most of the day. I guess I can’t party like a rockstar anymore…
