Job Interview

So somehow I got an interview at a local british pub called Footnik right next to Osaki Station on the Yamanote train line. Basically like  60-70 percent of the guests are japanese and the rest english speakers.

Holy crap! I don’t even know how I pulled it off.  My homestay mom and her boyfriend know the  manager and I met him briefly.  His english was amazing and he said he would take my number and email down.  A few weeks later I decided just to email him to show him I was still interested.  He said that there were no openings now but check back in January.  And he threw in he loved my kind and nice personality. 

Well literally like a few days later I am checking online just to see about job openings and there was an ad for job openings at the bar.  It asked to send in resume.  The posting was bilingual and said nothing about japanese ability so I sent my resume in english to not make them think I was fluent or anything.  Basically after I sent it, I really didn’t think much of it anymore.

Two days later I get this call in high speed japanese.  All I could catch is that the owner wanted me to go to the Osaki pub location (there are two, one in osaki and the other in ebisu).  He also gave me the time and date.  Besides that things got kinda lost in translation.  So I agreed and that was it.

But wow hearing that fast japanese speaking gave me second thoughts.  Yeah the manager will be there that speaks good english but they are going to ask questions in japanese that I probaly can’t answer or explain.  So I am a bit worried.

To add to it, I was looking up some of the polite japanese phrases that are used in restaurant and learning them is definetely going to take some time.

I am seriously debating whether I should save myself the embarrassment and just stay at home.