Let's talk about privates

No not that kind! Come on people. I'm talking about private lessons. Apparently I just got my first student practically by accident. Before I came here I had the idea in my head that I would be teaching tons of privates in my free time and I would come back to Canada super-rich. Well reality bites as they say. Actually it's neither good nor bad. Believe it or not, the Japanese aren't falling over each other to get you to teach them privately. Apparently that boat sailed a long time ago. But it doesn't really matter because I've found that after teaching students all day, the last thing I want to do is sit down with some more students in my free time. Life is too short to be teaching all the time.

Anyways I just happened be buying groceries at the grocery store one night. I paid for my food and then went over to the counter to bag it. A lady packing her own groceries across from me noticed that I had a little maple leaf pin on my lapel and she commented on it and asked me if I was Canadian. So anyways I talked to her for about 5 minutes and then she said that she wanted to learn english and she wanted me to teach her. So I gave her my email and we had our first meeting the other day just to get the details figured out. So I should end up doing my first private next week sometime. I'll let you know how it goes!