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 [...]
I have been in Japan for nearly two years, taken 11 gigabytes worth of pictures, and have actually post about 20 of them on my website. Ah, the diary of a procrastinator. However, I’m a big believer in “Better Late than Never” so starting now I’ll be posting pictures chronicling my time here in Japan. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]