やた！

Getting accepted into Aeon as a foreign English teacher was a metaphorical "opening of the doorway" to my journey to and in Japan. This week has provided me with the first actual steps down that path. I finally got my assignment and departure date. As things stand I am to arrive in Narita Airport (Tokyo) before 4pm on June 5th where I will be trained to teach English for at least a year at the Nakayama Branch school in Yokohama. I am so excited!! The location is pretty much perfect in terms of what I was looking for. I will be close to big cities and tourist spots, but not dead center in the international metropolitan chaos that are Tokyo or downtown Yokohama. Thus, I have better chance at having a true sense of what the ACTUAL Japanese culture is like on a daily basis. So, finding out when and where I am headed has proved exceedingly exciting.
Another step I have taken is to actually receive the contract packet the Aeon needs me to sign and provide them and start checking of boxes on the pre-departer checklist. I have applied for my passport, begun to build my professional wardrobe, and gather other essential information on what to bring and how better to prepare. It keeps me busy, but I am so motivated to do it all that it does not even seem bothersome.
Furthermore, I have begun my intro Japanese anguage course. As I will need to be able to communicate, I have a deeply vested interest in the class and all of the work has proven fun and interesting so far. Check what I can do after only two class sessions "うぇすり". That is my named spelled out in Hiragana, one of the three alphebets in writtin Japanese. hopefully I can pick it up quick and even become fluint in the time I am there. These steps may be small, but every one I take makes me anticipate the next even more. Times will be super busy till I leave, but I will be enjoying and savorying every last minute of it.