Nova stands for No-Vacation

I found the original add (below) for the first job Beth and I had after University. Our plan was always to go to Japan after school, and when we saw this ad, we contacted them. The "interview process" was pretty quick - hello, good heartbeat, half-decent English... you're good to go! In September of 1994, we were off to Tokyo working for Nova - a huge private English school system that was known to stand for "No-vacation" by the teachers, for obvious reasons.