Last year I posted a guide for future ALTs in Japan on how to pack for a year (or more) in Japan with the constantly shrinking baggage allowance. Since then I’ve decided a few things on my original list were not so necessary, while some are much more necessary than I made it out to [...]
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One thing that’s frustrating about being a new ALT is no one seems to tell you what you’re going to be doing once you reach Japan. I used to think this was a JET thing, but talking to ALTs in other companies, it seems to be and anywhere thing. It is ESID and all that, [...] I figured I’d take a moment from my regular lack-of-focus blogging and congratulate the shortlisters for the 2009 JET Program. One of you lucky kids will be working with me come August, so you better be cool! Or at least tolerable. Anyway, you’re coming to Japan and I’m sure there are a million things going through [...] It’s about that time a year when JET applicants learn whether or not they got an interview. I, of course, offer my congratulations to those who made it, but I thought I’d give those of you who didn’t make it past the interview stage this year some words of wisdom or encouragement or at least [...] The fact that I passed the application stage of the 2007 JET Programme was quite an accomplishment for me because that meant I was a step further than I was the previous year. But it also caused me plenty of new stress. Now I actually had to met them face to face and show them why [...] Last time, I covered the first unspoken rule of paper in Japan (never throw any piece of paper you get in Japan away). This second rule is also unspoken and is possibly more important that the first 2. If it’s an ALTs word against a piece of paper, paper trumps ALT, always. It really doesn’t matter [...] There are any number of people on the JET Programme who apply during their senior year of college, are granted interviews with no problem, and receive the good news in April that they will be heading to the Land of the Rising Sun three months after their graduation. This was sadly not my story. In 2005 I [...] |
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