What do you teach, lyte edge?
I'm an
assistant language teacherguy that sits around on the internet and occassionally goes and helps teach English to junior high school kids in Japan. The school year here ends in late March and begins again in April...those poor kids (and poor teachers!) don't get much of a break. Even weirder, they still have summer vacation, for around six weeks, so basically the school year starts and then four months later they're off again.
Teachers don't get this time off, so you just come into work, baking in the hot non air conditioned school and be bored, bored, bored. ALTs in my area at least get "cultural furlough," which basically means you get five days off during vacation periods as long as you do something culturally relevant (I.E. don't leave the country), on top of the 20 days of paid leave you get every school year.
My time here ends at the the end of July and I am looking quite forward to getting the hell out of here now. I've certainly enjoyed the majority of my time on the JET Program, but it has largely been unchallenging and rather unfulfilling work. I really don't think the teaching thing is for me.
