advice please - no triggers

[whoops]

i live in japan. i have been in hiroshima for a year and a half... and was elsewhere before. in total i have been here for 3 years.

recently my 2 best friends left japan.

and i don't know what is going on with the guy i may or may not be about to start dating - we have been fooling around for a YEAR...

and on tuesday i made a decision to leave and head to NZ and Oz...

and THEN...

i get a phone call yesterday from my manager in head office asking if i would be interested in interviewing for a training job within the company. i work for an english teaching company and i am an area manager at the mo and the new job would be training all the new teachers arriving in japan as to our curriculum and teaching styles and whatnot.

BUT (there is always a but)... i have to transfer.

so i would still be in the same country. but in a different city.

i would have to move to start in the new year.

a fresh start is what i had decided on - but i would still be in japan... which would mean a fresh start in japanese... can take ages to make friends... and leaving hiroshima for somewhere else in japan is something i hadn't contemplated.

now i don't know what to do... my thoughts are kinda going too fast for me to process them so i don't know what i am thinking.

[whoops]

i'm from the uk - and the original plan was japan for a year, nz for a year then oz for a year... got stuck at the first place (because it has been awesome here)... now i am 28 and running out of working holiday time.

so the oz nz motivation is travel and freedom and all that. which i guess i get in japan. the hiroshima motivation is i have friends here and jerry is here. and the transfer motivation is, well, something new and jerry isn't there and it is an ideal job for me.

SO... i think i am going along the same lines as you - pros and cons... but my gut feelings says GO.

i am just scared.