12am-only 4 more hours till bedtime
I don't really stay up till 4 am. I haven't done that on a regular basis since university. But it just occured to me that quite possibly the best thing about this job is the fact that I can stay up as late as I want and I never have to worry about whether or not I'm going to sleep in and be late for work (which is something that is worth worrying about because being late in Japanese society will incur serious financial penalties.)
I could sleep in till 11am if I wanted and still have a ridiculous amount of time to get ready for work. I don't of course. I usually get up around 8-8:30 and lazily eat breakfast and read the paper and then I saunter off to the gym for an hour and a half. Still it's nice to know that if for some reason you need to stay up late, you'll always have lots of time to sleep in the next morning.
Japan Fact #231
Japanese kids are smarter than Canadian kids. This is a given considering how most of them go to school eight hours a day six days a week and then go to a cram school for an hour and a half after school before going home to do two and a half hours of homework followed by an hour of piano or violin. I last week I was sitting on the train next to a kid who looked like she might be a very young ten years old. She was working on a sheet of long division math problems such as 24.3/9 and 35.2/3. I haven't attempted it myself yet but I'm guessing that I probably couldn't get the right answer without a calculator.
4 comments:
brando whats teh japanese night club scene like, who you hang out with there ... tell us more about the idoisms of japanese culture...
doo you really think japanese are smarter?
In Scotland (at least in the good old days)we were pretty smart too!We would have solved those questions using short division. We only used long division when dividing by 2 digit numbers.
You should be doing extra schooling yourself brando. All that extra time wasted being LAZY? Get a masters in JAPANESE SOCIETY or something. Im sure you too could CRAM in extra work after extra work!
Whats the penalty for being late?
Penalty for being late:
Depends on how many classes you miss.
If you call in sick then you have to give them about 2-3 hours notice.
So if you don't call in at all then you dont get paid for the entire day plus they charge you for about 4 classes or so. So about $85 I think.
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