Churning...

[sjcarpediem]

Mostly cloudy, 23C (23C)

So, apparently, I'm moving to Shiga-ken (滋賀県, jp, the one with Lake Biwa...) sometime next month (don't ask me when...)--a place called Moriyama (守山市, jp), to be more specific. It's not in my guide book.

I am filled with a very special and inevitable kind of dread. This place has a smaller population than my inaka town on Shikoku. And it wasn't in my guide book, either. But Honshu is completely different, Honshu is completely different, Honshu is completely different.... There are fewer people in all of Shiga prefecture than in Kobe city.

There is a university, at least... and a senmon-gakkou (trade school)... My town on Shikoku didn't have either of those. It serves as a "bedroom town" for Osaka and Kyoto, though, which means it's not likely to be very convenient to live in... But maybe there'll be a movie theatre. Generally, my standards for a "city" are (a) population of 1million people or more and (b) at least one regularly operating movie theatre. I also enjoy public transport. We could count that as a third criterion, I suppose.

It takes less time and is cheaper to visit both Kyoto and Nara from there ; Osaka is just 20 minutes further from there than it is from here.

I'll visit for the day this weekend or next, I hope, and be very pleasantly surprised. I had asked one of my students about jobs at one of the local universities ; but it seems they're not hiring at the moment. That was my feeble attempt to stay in Kobe. I like Kobe. Kobe is cool and has an interesting history and is very convenient to live in. Next month I'll have been here for one year. Universe, stop flinging me into the boonies, please.

I'm too emotionally exhausted at the moment to post anything more. So now I will eat some chocolate, drink some tea, and watch some anime all the while pretending that ALL IS WELL WITH THE WORLD, and by extension/association, me and my life.

Comments

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

I've checked the few resources I know (which are not really a lot), but so far nothing.

[tsubasa-en11.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to ask the recommendations from LJ communities? I mean, eikaiwa and other Lj communities which contributing to teaching in Japan?

...I'm sorry i can't help anything <_<

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

They're patently useless--but that doesn't mean I didn't try to get some use out of them.

It's okay. Thanks for trying to help me with it! Oh, and from what I can see, this should have ZERO effect on our Kanazawa plans--thank God! :-D

[tsubasa-en11.livejournal.com]

Let's make this trip a pleasant one then. :D

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

Indeed! :-)