| Truthfully, it doesn't kill me; I really enjoy it ;-) I've been working for the British Council in Tokyo since April 2001. The British Council is the UK's international organisation for education and cultural relations, with offices in 110 countries. Click above and check out the website link which will give a much more comprehensive and articulate overview. (You can also search for more details on BC Japan by searching the main BC website). I am part of the teaching centre in Tokyo and I'm based mainly on the Koto Ku project. This is the BCs longest-running educational project in Japan, over 19 years, putting BTEs (British teachers) into 23 Junior High Schools, affecting over 7000 kids. We also organise teacher-training for Japanese JHS teachers, regular workshops, an e link project which connects UK/Japanese JHS, a newsletter and various other bits and pieces. When we are not actually contact-teaching, our time is spent in the BC centre in Iidabshi, making materials...and the rest; usually a 38 hour week, of which contact is 22 hours . There are some nice perks too - check out our photos from the British Council promotion at Fuji Rock festival 2003: free tickets and transport in exchange for minimal work! We saw Coldplay, Bjork, Plump DJs and many more...we also promoted at Fuji in 2004, but I didn't get it together in the way pf photos for that year. Nice place to work - lots of good people there, variety and interesting opportunitites... |
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| Work... "....a heart that's full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you..." Radiohead, 'No Surprises', June 1997 |