Hello bloggers and welcome to my latest blog, Memoirs Of A Gaijin. The story behind this one is as follows:
A shabby testament to the post 2008 downturn in global economics, my hometown had slipped before my eyes in the past few years from a tussocky flea hub on the crap side of mediocre to a true, loud and pronounced shit hole. where a shitty office job under luminescent lighting could once be found with little effort, now the best one could expect was part-time work in one of many bargain shops that had taken root in the central arcade and had multiplied like thrifty maggots feasting upon a rotting carcass.
Many nights and days were spent, many cheap cigarettes smoked in my pursuit to find any kind of worthwhile work. my fingers and eyes ached from the laborious wrapping on the computer keyboard, scouring the backlit screen on reams of job-search sights for that ever-elusive good gig. Frustration fuelled my daily surge of red emotion, monotony its grey antithesis.
Getting closer to the end of my tether, I decided to escape the occupational desolation and boredom and take a job teaching English in Osaka, Japan. So becomes this blog... a canvas on which to document this new chapter of my life. Within will be revealed all of the quirks and jewels of this strange place, and with them all of the faux pas that I have already made and expect to make in the future. Hope you enjoy and thanks for feedback!
