Sorry for the dearth of recent posts, but as far as the training goes I will be doing that at the end of the month through the first few days of April in Hamamatsu. Should be fairly easy as it can't be that radically different from Nova especially seeing as I won't be teaching very high level English at any of my schools. Only in the past couple of years has the government started mandating English classes at elementary schools, so most of the children there have never studied English before beyond what they may have been exposed to in foreign movies. However this also means there is no set textbook or teaching method for elementary level English, so this means that I will be independently designing and implementing all of my elementary English classes. Ideally the homeroom teacher will work with me, but I have heard that it really depends on the teacher as far as how involved they want to get. Also there is a very good chance that the elementary teachers I will be working with won't speak a word of English, so needless to say my Japanese should improve exponentially. I will also only be teaching 20-25 classes out of the weekly total of 40, so I'll have a lot of downtime to study Japanese during the day. Basically this job looks pretty ridiculous and I'm excited to finally be working again in general, so life is looking pretty good.