Yokoso Peeps! It's Oz! Welcome to another episode of Ask Oz!
Jason mabone asks do you currently own any video game system?
When I was a kid I had the Atari 2600. I loved Missle Command and Asteroids
Then when I saved up enough money I bought the Nintendo Entertainment System. And my favorite games were Super Mario Bros. & Marble Madness
Then I bought the Gameboy and was obsessed with Bubble Bobble.
And finally I bought the Nintendo DS which I mostly play Mario Kart and brain teezer and puzzle games
I'm not much of a gamer for two reasons
One is I'm lazy and I don't have the patience to learn a game, follow through and play it for hours and hours until I master it
And two, I'm stupid. I can't deal with any controller with more than two buttons
Miwa Uno asks what is it like to work in a kindergarten and how much is the salary?
Are you Japanese or a foreigner?
If you're a Japanese person, it's very tough
99% of the teachers I work with are female and in their 20's
They either get married, knocked up or burnt out.
Now the day in Kindergarten is very short. From 10 am to 2:30 pm. For the kids!
But for the teacher, the teachers arrive around 8 in the morning and they leave around 6 or 7 at night.
So before the kids come in they have to set everything up, clean up and prepare lessons
While the kids are there they have to ofcourse take care of the kids, sing, play piano, dance and do arts and crafts
Serve lunch to them and make sure everyone is safe and happy and healthy
Then when the kids leave they have to do final clean up, prepare the lessons for the next day, paperwork and even have a meeting with the principal
And the bad news is the salary is really low. I would say they average about 150,000 Yen
Now if you're a foreigner, kindergarten is completely different.
I go in, in the morning and my classes start at 10
I teach about 2 hours. I go from class to class teaching English betweeen 20 to 30 minute sessions depending on the age of the kids.
Once those 2 hours are over, I ate lunch with the kids and then I take off.
Then I either go to a different school or come back to the school around 3.
I teach smaller private lesson or small groups of kids. it's usually about 2 to 10 kids
And the average salary for foreign kindergarten teachers is about 270,000 yen. that's almost double a Japanese kindergarten teacher who is there the whole day
I think the only way a Japanese person could be a kindergarten teacher is if they really love kids
Kelveto kelly asks there's a new video that came out that disturbs me abou the ALT situation. It's about ALTs being paid below the poverty line
Yah, I've seen that video you're talking about and yah it's true.
The JET Programme is one of the only ALT programs that offer a really good salary
I'm not sure how it works but I think it started when the Board of Education stopped using JET Programme exclusively
And started allowing other companies like Interac to bid on contracts with the Board of Education making the salaries of all the ALT teachers go down
Now it's down to like 170,000 to 230,000 a month. Which is not too bad if you're single and living in a one room apartment
But it doesn't give you any leeway for travelling or enjoying Japan at all.
If you get paid 230,000 yen that's before income tax, residents tax, pension and all that stuff.
And if you're in a big city like Tokyo or Chiba or Nagoya rent is going to cost you about 50,000 for a typical apartment
Then with utilities, cellphone, internet and all that stuff you're gonna be down about 20,000
But the problem is you don't get paid a full salary the whole year.
You start from May so you're only getting paid about 9 months worth of salary. so I would say take about 20,000 each month to save up for the months you don't get paid.
Then you have to pay for food, for clothing, for anything you do on the weekend like going drinking or seeing different parts of Japan, for miscellaneous expenses that come up.
So is it below the poverty line I would say no but if you plan to do anything like going home to visit your family and friends for xmas
Or to see other parts of Asia or even parts of Japan, you're gonna be left we zero savings
So if you have a wife and kids and are the sole supporter I would say it's impossible.
If you're a single person you can get by but you have nothing to save for a rainy day
Trauma asks why is the letter K so common in Japanese?
Hmm, that's true. There are a lot of K words in Japanese
And the list goes on and on.
There's actually two reasons. When you put Japanese words into the alphabet it's called romaji
They only have K, they don't have C or Q. So all those words that have a C or Q sound get lumped in with the K words.
But the second reason has to do with the sound K in kanji
It has many different Kanji's in Japanese such as total, system or extinguish.
So these three K's or KKK mean the elimination or destruction of the total system.
The KKK has implanted all these K words to suppress the Asian and Japanese alphabetical language Kanji. Which also starts with K
Which is why one of the tallest mountains is Asia is called K-2
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