u/HaganenoEdward

I’m 32 YO, currently attending ISI Kyoto for one of their short term courses (my original idea was to quit my job and go for longer, but family members persuaded me to try living here for shorter time at first and then decide). While I understand that Japan has tons of issues that rear its ugly head once you are here longer, but nonetheless I really enjoyed my time in Kansai and would like to go back here first longer.

I’m specifically looking for 6-month courses for 2 reasons: my savings are around 6-7k euros and while I want to have a part-time job, it doesn’t seem like I can earn that much (plus I want to get baito to actually practice language outside of class tbh). The second reason is that I want to spend some time job hunting in Japan. As far as I understand, the student visa gives you one year and so it would be nice to have a few more months when I can focus purely on job hunting.

Also, while I do not hate, ISI, I also don’t enjoy some of the practices in the school and would like to try out some better ones. Any recommendations?