One more thing...

I've got a private lesson tomorrow. I picked up a few more since Nova closed-all former Nova students. I'm sort of kicking myself for not giving out my contact information to all the students immediately after the money troubles first started. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess. I've since made up some business cards (designing business cards is really fun!) and whenever I see students I give them out. It happens more than you would think-especially when you live in the same place as you teach. I got one class that pays 2500 yen an hour and another one that pays 4000 yen an hour. That combined with my regular private class is enough to pay for my 40,000 yen rent which should help stem the money hemorrhaging until the unemployment cheques start pouring in. We're supposed to get 80% of our regular wage for 3 months which I plan on taking full advantage of-if it indeed comes to that.

Anyways I'm doing this one class for 2500 yen an hour because it is such a scam. The guy (a really decent chap) is into watching Seinfeld. He watches the show and then types up whatever he can understand from the script. Then we watch it together on his Ipod and I fill in the missing sections and correct any listening mistakes he's made. I can't imagine a better job than being paid $25 an hour to watch Seinfeld. Ok it isn't $25 anymore but it was before our cursed dollar decided to skyrocket. On the other hand it makes purchasing things over here seem really cheap (wow this $450 PS3 is actually only $320 over here!)
Anyways I gotta get to bed-I want to be well rested for my Seinfeld lesson tomorrow morning.