The wait is over!

I finally got my exact placement today!! I got an e-mail from the Gunma Board of Education saying that I've been assigned to teach at the "Shibukawa Girls Senior High School". An all-girls school--I'm gonna get to relive my own high school experience all over again! I think girls in a single-sex environment are less likely to be delinquents, so I'm pretty happy about that (unless it turns out to be a school specifically for delinquent girls...but let's hope not).

As for Shibukawa, it's a little city with a population of about 50,000. As far as I can tell, it's not located on a mountain and I should have access to high-speed Internet. I think it's about 30 minutes from the prefecture's capital, where I can take a bullet train to Tokyo. So overall, I think I'm pretty happy with this placement. It's far from being a hip, urban metropolis, but it could be much worse--this one girl in my Japanese class has been assigned to a tiny little island that's about 3 hours from the mainland.

It's funny how much my perception of a "city" has changed over the past little while. As long as it has over 10,000 people and access to high-speed Internet, I'm sold...