Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Money for Old Rope




I am saving up for a Christmas trip to South Korea. I got a circular email a few weeks ago looking for staff for a weekend English Camp. A High School in Nagano were holding their annual English camp in Nagano and needed native English speakers to work on it. It looked like a fun way to make some extra cash.
It took place last weekend and it was great fun. It was held in a luxury Onsen hotel in Iiyama, north of Nagano. The hotel was very nice; they even had some tortoises. My job for the weekend was to basically talk in English with the students, do activities like pumpkin carving, play games. The students were all very nice and personable. We ate a Japanese style barbecue on Saturday evening; it was delicious. Later in the evening I had free time and could enjoy the onsen.
I got paid to stay in a luxury onsen hotel and speak English a bit. Not bad work if you can get it.

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