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ohayo gozaimasu my name's Alec I'm from
Orange County California
and today I'm going to give you a day in
the life of what it is to be an English
teacher in Osaka Japan so please feel
free to ask me any questions you might
have and I'll try to answer them just
give me a message right up I'll start
you out with a grand tour of the
apartment it won't take long so I'll
walk you in from the front so I'm on the
first floor of my building and here's my
place I'm about six feet tall so I have
to duck a little bit to get into this
place and this little area right here
where I'm taking off my slippers that's
what you would call a gang con you can't
wear shoes in Japanese housing so that's
where you take off all of your shoes and
when I walk in I have a little fridge
here where I start all my food and some
stuff on top on the microwave a small
kitchenette where I cook basic things
I've got a semi double bed cool table
small wardrobe and a couch and all of
this came furnished when I got the
apartment which I received through my
cup and lastly we have the bathroom it
is very small but it gets the job done
just a basic toilet sink shower bath
situation it is a tub so if you did want
to take a bath in that you have that
option and it's kind of like little
lifted off the ground here a unit which
is pretty standard for Japanese bathroom
all right so we are getting started with
the day I have a late shift today start
is he my friend Clara up here hold on
Clara say hi to the my fans
International Temple Academy doing a
story taker for like I have a late start
today
so I actually take Japanese lessons
every Thursday so it is about 1050 in
the morning right now and I am on my way
to my lesson with my private teacher and
after that I have my workday my off days
for me personally and my company are
Tuesday Wednesday
so I've got to start my lesson now but
please ask me some questions here if you
have any so far and I'll try to answer
them once I'm done okay so I'm out of my
lesson and before I get into some of the
questions that you guys have asked I
want to touch on the idea of knowing
Japanese while you're here especially
outside of the Tokyo area you may be
aware already to the
overall in Japan is quite low so knowing
Japanese is extremely helpful it's not
necessary for almost any temple job that
I have been aware of in this country but
it definitely helps in everyday life
almost everyone you will encounter out
in public speaks very little to no
English so knowing the language really
helps I would absolutely recommend at
least knowing how to read hiragana and
katakana before you get here and then
you can pick up the basic phrases pretty
quickly but it will be difficult so I
really recommend stuck and so yeah Osaka
is known as the food capital of the
country particularly known for its
okonomiyaki and takoyaki and all kinds
of other things to all it really
affordable prices so it's a great city
to live in if you love Japanese food or
food of any cuisine actually it's Japan
because I always had an interest in the
country from a young age growing up on
Pokemon Nintendo and such but also
because it's such a developed nation
with really high quality of life great
health care which will touch on
respectful people and really interesting
culture so I work for a private language
school or a Kailua is what it's called
named ECC it's one of the largest ones
in Japan and in my opinion from what I
have researched and sort of heard from
other people that I've met here I think
that it's the best option running into
my best friend she lives about 20 feet
away from me in our beautiful building
here and I think she's on her way to
work so I love you
you
all right so I'm just walking to the
subway station for my shifter now it
takes me about 15 minutes to get to work
which is really lucky for me just two
stops on the subway and it's about a
five minute walk to the station from
pepper
you
so it is four o'clock right now Simon
just
two hours into my shift and I'm on my
lunch break which is a little bit early
and I have to be flexible I'm not for
the way that my company schedules things
but it's alright because I get to eat
this is an example of something that I
eat very often a contest style ramen at
a restaurant called Kudo very very good
alright so I had my lunch and now I want
to show you guys what a convenience
store looks like right now I'm in Family
Mart which is one of the dominants
convenience store chains here and as you
can see it has a lot of stuff
everything is really high-quality got
fresh sandwiches and sort of plates that
you could get for all the time rice
balls with little things inside them
these are called hoodie area really
great for snacks and all kinds of drinks
and other sorts of plates and pretty
much anything you might need on a
regular basis and some hot food that's
actually good quality as well so I live
in convenience stores and
you
I've done with the kids portion of my
shift for the day so right now I'm just
walking around the corner to the Adult
School where I just have two short
conversation lessons to finish out my
seven hour shift
all right y'all we finally made it home
it's just about ten o'clock so now it's
time for me to shower get all this sweat
off me from teaching kids all day and
unwind a bit before bed
okay so this is a prime example of Japan
being the land of convenience so it is
currently 1144 but I feel like an ice
cream cone so I and putting on my
slippies and I'm gonna go to the
convenience store which is about three
minutes away
it's 1144 and here we are the beautiful
Family Mart it's really just my happy
place and it's 11:45 now actually so the
Family Mart is poppin right now a lot of
people here this is the ice-cream
selection we're working with lots of
fudge really great snacks in this
country if you like snacks can I
recommend coming here but this vanilla
cone here is a favorite of mine simple
vanilla cone just about one so my ice
cream cone is done and I'm in Tamra's
room again hey Tam say hello to my fans
at ITA make say hello to my fans at ITA
so these are my two best friends here I
love them yeah Tamara loves me too
so advice what is your favorite you can
think about it you can think about it
Nick what's your favorite part of
teaching in Japan all right cool Thank
You Tamara how about you that's very
rude it's okay
sorry fans alright everyone so I am back
in my room and about to go to bed it's
almost 1:00 in the morning here and I've
got work at 10:00 tomorrow so I do need
to go to sleep but I just want to close
by saying thank you for listening to me
today I hope you found it informative
and I want to close also by saying that
Japan is an amazing place to live and to
teach English I'd highly recommend it to
anyone who's looking for something
different from the US the language
barrier is difficult and the cultural
differences are significant but I am
really grateful for the experience I've
had and I'd really
really like I said truly recommend it to
anyone so if you have any questions feel
free to message me on my own account
because I'll be gone from this one
starting now and good luck to you all
thanks
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