Tokyo was a place where I have to confess that I spent one of the lowest periods in my life. I was working for 6 months at the NOVA institute pictured in the foreground on the left - 10 floors of hell, eight hours of gruelling teaching per day with 5 minutes to evaluate student files and find the next class files in between classes trying desperately not to collide with other teachers over the filing cabinets. I must confess I have it a lot easier at my university gig in Korea. There's no going back to NoVacation Nova.