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If you're like me, you may have thought that being veggie in Japan would be easy. They eat TOFU right? Right… Well, this expectation was already questioned before I moved to Japan. In my pre-move research I found a barrage of blogs talking about how hard it is to eat green in the Land of [...]
Hello. My name is Jessica. I am from the UK. I studied English at Lancaster University. I look forward to working with you. Bow. Giphy The importance of this little paragraph has recurred since pre-flight orientation and since I'm starting teaching at 9 different schools, it's going to be said a lot! After saying goodbye [...]
My orientation was on 20th July, around 2 weeks before I fly to Japan. I’d recently begun to feel pretty nervous about the whole thing and so was looking forward to the orientation, hoping that the information would put my mind at ease. The orientation was held in London, so I decided to travel down [...]
In my last post I told you all about my exciting and exhausting application to get onto the JET programme. Since that post I received my result… Giphy … and I got accepted! Giphy After taking some time to let it all sink in, I realised that this means that in less than three months [...]
At the latter end of 2017, I applied for the pretty ambitious position of an Assistant Language Teacher on the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Programme, or JET for short. After hearing about it in my 1st year of uni, it had always been in the back of my mind as an option for when I [...]
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