I'm a newbie so please bear with me...

[fuckedupgaijin]

Hi guys, I'm new here so please bear with me if I ask stupid questions or something, 'oright?
So, basically I had the chance to travel to Japan this winter and totally fell in love with it! Cliche', I know, but it really came as unexpected, as I never been into the whole manga-anime-videogame-thing!
Needless to say, I'm desperately trying to find a way back. Problem is, I'm kinda broke so I can't get a visa or study Japanese
I'm graduating in May with a BBA, but really have no experience in business, so I was thinking about teaching English, but heard the market is oversaturated and then I have the disadvantage of obviously not being a native English speaker (teaching Italian?)
I'm even considering becoming a hostess - blonde and blue eyes, check!
What do you guys suggest? I am fully aware of the risks of coming to Japan without visa/money but I don't wanna give up on my dream! Any ideas/suggestions are very welcome.

[waruta]

Hi guys, I'm new here so please bear with me if I ask stupid questions or something, 'oright?
So, basically I had the chance to travel to Japan this winter and totally fell in love with it! Cliche', I know, but it really came as unexpected, as I never been into the whole manga-anime-videogame-thing!
Needless to say, I'm desperately trying to find a way back. Problem is, I'm kinda broke so I can't get a visa or study Japanese
I'm graduating in May with a BBA, but really have no experience in business, so I was thinking about teaching English, but heard the market is oversaturated and then I have the disadvantage of obviously not being a native English speaker (teaching Italian?)
I'm even considering becoming a hostess - blonde and blue eyes, check!
What do you guys suggest? I am fully aware of the risks of coming to Japan without visa/money but I don't wanna give up on my dream! Any ideas/suggestions are very welcome.

Uhh....you can crash at my place?

[Greji]

Any ideas/suggestions are very welcome.

Stay away from sand filled bathtubs....

[fuckedupgaijin]

Uhh....you can crash at my place?

Bwahah, thanks, I'll keep that in mind!

[fuckedupgaijin]

Stay away from sand filled bathtubs....

Haha you guys are funny!

[Ketou]

Uhh....you can crash at my place?

Ditto...even the wife would be interested....

Getting a visa may be a bit difficult...especially if you come over on a tourist visa and then go looking for sponsorship. I would definitely avoid getting into hostessing unless you already have a visa under your own steam. It's bad enough with the scumbags running legit businesses sponsoring your visa.....

Certainly though, if your spoken English is as good as your written you will have no problems pretending to be a native speaker. Plenty of people have grown up in other countries....

[james]

I have the disadvantage of obviously not being a native English speaker (teaching Italian?)
I'm even considering becoming a hostess - blonde and blue eyes, check!
What do you guys suggest? I am fully aware of the risks of coming to Japan without visa/money but I don't wanna give up on my dream! Any ideas/suggestions are very welcome.

i wouldn't say "obviously". had you not said anything, i doubt anyone here would have known the better.

while not as popular as english, there are definitely language schools that serve these smaller markets, offering french, italian, spanish etc.

since your english is so good, you could find work teaching english while looking for an italian teaching position if that's what you'd prefer to do. many schools hire non-native speakers of english, so don't let not being a native speaker deter you.

[sillygirl]

Buona fortuna bella!

[fuckedupgaijin]

Buona fortuna bella!

Grazie mille!
Tu sei in Giappone?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I was going to write something in Italian, too, but considering the only Italian I know was the same phrase that made Zidane headbutt Marco Materazzi I figured I'd better not.

As for Giappone and work prospects, I'd say they're pretty slim at the moment. Then again, it seems you're pretty slim, too, in which case they would snap you up pretty quickly in the hostessing trade, especially if you're blond with blue eyes. Even that, though, brings hard times.

But, if all else fails, there's always: ""Gli farò un'offerta che non potrà rifiutare"

[Takechanpoo]

[Ketou]

[BO-SENSEI]

Yea..you should make fun of them Take...cause they were only farting around with philosophy, mathematics, civil engineering etc during the Yoyoi period while you guys actually managed to get some new pottery and rice.

While I will give you the Romans civil engineering in forms of the Colosseum, Pantheon, roads, and not to mention various advancements in war machines, and the Yayoi developments of pottery. But if you mean so called "farting around" with philosophy and mathematics acquired from the Ancient Greeks then yeah you are correct, and the same could be said for how the Yayoi acquired wet-rice agriculture from the Chinese.

[sillygirl]

Grazie mille!
Tu sei in Giappone?

Nope, adesso in Inghilterra...pero io sono inglese so I'll stop pretending to be able to speak Italian..before I embarrass myself any further....(mio ragazzo e Italiano)