LIFE AT HEKINAN
Hekinan provides the best combination of urban/ rural living.
Go "power shopping" in neighbouring Nagoya or hit the local department stores. You can get around on your ACC supplied bicycle to local grocery stores. Prices can be surprisingly close to U.S. prices sometimes even lower!
Relax, head to the beach or the mountains, play sports, go to movies, read, or just meet friends in the garden settings of local temples. And don't forget to unwind over a cold beer with your new friends at one of the many local watering holes!
ACC encourages you to use its equipment to prepare lessons or to search the WEB for new teaching ideas.
You can also use the WEB to keep in touch with friends and the latest news from home!
Don't forget to make a WEB-based e-mail account (eg Yahoo!) before you come!
ACC provides a pleasant working environment, and an extensive library of teaching materials.
Modern classrooms are bright, airy, and designed in a neo-modern Japanese manner.
A prestructured teaching appproach provides the framework for the basis of leaning but ACC encourages creativity in the classroom.
Choose your own textbooks (for classes above the elementary school level), create your own activities and games, and make your own teaching plans.
ACC students vary from very young children to adults.
ACC teachers must be able to teach all levels. There are also special classes offered for those going abroad to live, those who have returned from abroad, as well as for those who are interested in business English.
HEKINAN and the surrounding areas provide a mixture of urban and rural living.
The centre of Nagoya, Japan's 3rd laregest city is only a short train ride away: 20 min. from Kariya Station, 25min. from Anjo Station, and 40 min. from Hekinan Station. Anything that you could ever want, from shopping to entertainment, is there waitng for you.
As well, the Japan's famous Shinkansen (the Bullet Train / wikipedia) can shuttle you to Tokyo in 2 1/2 hours or to Osaka in 75 minutes from Mikawa Anjo Station.
However, living in Hekinan means that you won't have to deal with big city congestion in your daily routine.
Instead relax with your warm Japanese neighbours and learn about their traditional culture.
Enjoy the open spaces and natural settings that cannot be found within the city limits of Japan's urban cetres.
ACC provides generously large Japanese style apartments at a subsidized rate. You won't have any phone, T.V., or furnishing concerns; it's all there when you arrive.
Most apartments have balconies and some even have views!
