Tales of an ELT teacher living in Japan without first learning Japanese

I believe learning is one of the simple pleasures in life. It is one of the perks of teaching—the more I teach, the more I learn. Sometimes this is because I have to learn more content in the hopes that my students glean at least a small percentage of the wealth of information I give them. More often than not, however, I learn more from looking at the world through the lens of a teacher.