Hello, it's been about six months since my last video. I think it was back in January. So maybe closer to seven months now
Anyway, it's been a while, and I didn't really plan on
taking a break from YouTube or quitting youtube I just haven't really felt
particularly motivated to make videos recently
I think sometimes it can be a bit of a faff to you know carry the camera around stop to make sure you get a
good shot of something or
You know that kind of stuff and sometimes
it's nice to just live in the moment and enjoy what you're doing rather than recording everything
But then on the other hand it is nice to have these kind of videos
to have these memories to look back on I do really enjoy
looking back over
my old videos and remembering the good times I've had, the people I've met, the places I've been to
so I thought it would be quite nice to try and get back into it again and
maybe start recording a bit more regularly, but in the meantime
I just wanted to give kind of a quick life update talk a bit about what I've been doing since my last video
what I'm doing at the moment and what I'm going to be doing going ahead from here
I suppose so going back to January just after I made my last video the JLPT results came out. I did take the JLPT
for the second time, I took N2 last December
and I actually passed this time which was nice was very narrow pass only passed by one point
but a pass is a pass, and it was nice to finally
tick that off of my list of things I wanted to do
Yeah so passed the JLPT, that was good, and then in March
I had my 30th birthday, which I guess is kind of a milestone birthday
I actually had a really nice time celebrating my birthday. I hired a boat
I'll put a link to the website where I hired the boat from down below. Might seem a bit extravagant hiring a boat
but actually if you have a decent number of guests
I think if you have at least 20 guests - closer to 30 will probably be better
and if you can divide the cost equally between everybody who attends then it actually works out to be quite a reasonable price
I think for
my party it worked out to be about
2500 per person which really isn't that bad?
I mean if you think if you hired an izakaya
or went to karaoke or something people probably spend about the same amount of money. So went out on the boat, cruised around
Tokyo Bay, Odaiba and the Rainbow Bridge. It was in theevening as well
so it was really nice to enjoy the illuminations, and it was a really memorable
birthday party Perhaps the most memorable I've had, a really good time really grateful to all my friends who came along and
celebrated with me.
I didn't really take much in the way of video
I'm not sure if I took any video actually I took a few photos. I've put a few of those up now
and my friend
Ronin Dave, he actually took a really nice video. So I'll put a link to that down below as well
if anybody's interested to see the boat party.
So just after my birthday still in March around the middle of March I actually
quit my old job which I'll talk a bit more about in a while, but I quit my old job and I had a
space of about a week between quitting the old job and starting my new job
So I went to Fukuoka for a few days. It was my first time in the city
really enjoyed it. I didn't plan the trip very well, so I didn't get to do all of the things I wanted to do
It was just a little solo trip. Just wanted a change of scenery really, so I went down there and
the weather was kind of rubbish, but even so it was a really nice time, got to see some interesting places
and I got to meet some of my online friends, some of my Twitter friends
for the first time so it was really nice to hang out with them in real life
And yeah, nice trip overall.
I would definitely like to
go back there and see the rest of the things I wanted to see do the rest of the things I wanted to do
and just generally spend some more time in
Kyushu explore that part of Japan a bit more I think.
And so towards the end of March just after I came back from Fukuoka
I started my new job
And it was this strange to be suddenly working in a new job after spending pretty much my entire time
I've been in Japan working my previous job, started there
I think it was
the month after I arrived, and so I was working there for over two years it was pretty much the only constant in
my life since I've been here. I've obviously moved around a lot, people have come and gone
but my job was always pretty much the same, pretty consistent, so to suddenly be kind of uprooting
myself and working in a different environment with different people doing a slightly different kind of work
was a big adjustment to make, it was a lot to get used to. I am still teaching English still teaching eikaiwa
but the new place is a much smaller company and also, I'm working mostly with kids now whereas before I was working
mostly with adults, so it's a different kind of
teaching, a different kind of environment to be teaching in and
it was pretty tough at first
it was kind of exhausting and I was a bit worried. Maybe I made the wrong decision
maybe this isn't the right kind of teaching for me, but now I've been working there about five months
and I do feel like I'm settling in a lot more and enjoying the job a lot more and
yeah, it's going pretty well. Seems to be a pretty good company to work for so I'm happy on that front, and the money is
a bit better as well, which is also nice.
Yes, I think that's about everything of note that I've been up to recently
I'm taking a bit of a break from roller derby as well
just wanted to work on my general fitness a bit more because I feel like I'm a bit out of shape
and being out of shape, I kind of feel like the risk of injury is a bit higher.
So I just wanted to take a break from that
work on my overall fitness levels
and then hopefully go back in a few months time. So in the meantime
I have very recently been getting into
bouldering, which I've always wanted to try but just never got around to doing until very recently and
I'm still pretty terrible at I'm a complete beginner, but it's a lot of fun
and I want to try and keep it up. Looking ahead a little bit now over the next couple of weeks
I'm on my vacation at the moment, my summer holiday, summer vacation
which is another nice perk of the new job - didn't get a summer vacation in my previous job.
This weekend. I've actually got a work event
I'm going to summer camp up in Nagano with some of the kids.
Should be...
I'm imagining it's going to be pretty exhausting, but hopefully a lot of fun as well.
Should be an interesting experience at least, I've never really been on a summer camp before so
looking forward to that.
And then when I get back from that, I'm also going to Yamanashi for a couple of days with a friend.
Never been there before, so again, get to see a new place do some new things, should be nice.
And I'm also planning another trip for the following weekend
haven't really finalized the details or decided where I'm going to be going yet?
but again, should be nice to get out of Tokyo do some exploring and
yeah, just have a change of scenery.
I suppose maybe I'll try and make some videos while I'm out and about as well. We'll see.
And then oh another thing is I'm going to be moving out of this place pretty soon.
I actually went to view another share house quite nearby. I think it's only a couple of kilometers away
It's like two stops along the same train line
So I went to view that this morning, and I submitted my application
to move in just over a week, so next weekend. I think the contract on this place
actually lasts until the end of the month, so I've got like a two-week
crossover period to move on my stuff, so
that's going to take a lot of the stress of moving away, hopefully.
Of course the downside is I am paying rent on two places for a couple of weeks
so going to be a bit of a tight month financially next month.
But hopefully should be worth it, the new room seems really nice.
It's a bit smaller than this room, but it's got a private kitchen which is a nice bonus
should be able to do some cooking and
stuff in my own room
Yeah, very convenient. And looking a bit further ahead, my current visa expires in December
I am hoping to renew it again
be it for one year or three years kind of seems to be luck of the draw when it comes to immigration
in terms of what length of visa you get, but I do want to stay here a bit longer, so
fingers crossed I will be able to do that. Anyway
I'm going to wrap this up here, if you made it to the end of the video
thank you for watching and hopefully I'll see you soon. Take care. Bye!
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