Back to Japan

I have heard a very bad news in this morning. The district will be unable to sponsor for my visa since so many applicants are waiting on their list. Yes. That's it! Today, I got a ticket for going back to Japan. It is still very hard for me to accept my 8 years living experience over like this. However, I should... I keep encouraging myself, "Just for a while. I will be back here near future for ph.D." I will try hard studying, counseling, and working in Japan. This is a promise for myself.

License

I got bad news today (not about job). I will not even be qulified to take test for a counselor license in Japan without 2 years counseling experience in "Japan." That is so disgusting! Counseling clients who have different culture and life experience background is much harder than counseling same race clients! Do they think that counselor who are from Japan, but counsel only American clients cannot do well as much as counselors who have only been counseling Japanese clients?

Haven't heard yet

I haven't heard anything yet. I hope everything will work out.

I would like to introduce reality of counseling in Japan. In Japan, everybody can become counselor if they call themselves as. It does not matter whether they got training, because there is no law that sets specific criteria for the counselor. Although they have gotten some kind of counselor training, most of them do not have masters'. They got training from somewhere schools (Not university or college). There are so many conseling schools and each school issue different certification and license. This makes clients to confuse which licensed or certified counselor is most dependable.

There are so many different types of psycho therapies that the counselors advertise as their professional use. However, interestingly, I have not heard counselors who can professionaly use cognitive behavioral therapy alot, which most common counseling style and theory in the world. Many conseling offices are looking for counselors who can utilize the theory and therapy. What do they do? Hypnotherapy (which is my profession too, but...), reiki, fortunetelling, etc.

Exiting!

Today, I had such an exiting day!

I got a call from Gadsden Elementary school to hire me as a guidance counselor in this morning! If you read this blog edge to edge, you might think, "Where are you?" Yes, I am still in the U.S. I was pretty positive to go back to Japan. Therefore, I had written alike living in Japan.

Unfortunately, I cannnot take the position yet since I need to have working visa for legally authorized to work in the U.S. Finding sponsor for the visa is the hardest part for us as internationals. I met a HR person after I got the call, and she told me that she cannot gurantee to become a sponsor since many guidance counselor candidates are looking for jobs, but she will ask the superintendent. If the big man says, "Yes", I will get the job! I don't have any God to pray, but I feel that want to pray something for this matter.

First Blog!

Hello!!

My name is kaz (I have linked this site from my homepage, so some of you already know my full name). Before start, I hate to say, but the language of this blog is only used in English, because the main purpose of this blog is for me to keep and practice English ability. Therefore, if you have difficulty with reading English, please find another interesting blog. There are tons of blogs out there!

Comment, fixing my English grammer or any kinds of your response are welcomed!! Your response are very valuable for me, so please do not hesitate to share your thought. Although I asked you to fix my grammer and sentence structure, you do not have to worry about yours. It does not matter to me how much you understand English. If you are willing to use English keenly, you will be treated as a valuable reader. So, do not hesitate to leave your comment!

Before finishing today's writing, I would like to say that Portugal and Netherland game sucks (World Cup)! Netherland players should know that Portugal players always good at making people upset and killing time. That's their strategy for win! If you play their game, you will lose. So, the result was expected. Tomorrow, we have another exciting world cup soccer match. I cannot do anything until this event over!