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Posted on October 24, 2011 3 Comments
Life is full of the unexpected. Some surprises change your life for the better, while others are extremely painful. All of us in the JET Programme have different reasons for wanting to live in Japan. Still, I am always surprised when I talk to someone who has dreamed of coming here since childhood. I often […]
Posted on October 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
The first Japanese festival I attended was the Owara Kaze no Bon Festival in the quiet mountain town of Yatsuo, in Toyama, Japan. Last September, I was still very new to Japan, and attending Owara was my first venture in Toyama alone. I was a little nervous but proud to be discovering a new country […]
Posted on September 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
The days are getting shorter, which sadly means summer is coming to an end. This week, I have had some time to reflect on my busy summer. In addition to spending 18 days back in Chicago with my family, I danced in a traditional Japanese festival, helped new ALTs get acquainted with their job at […]
Posted on September 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Fully recovered from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that destroyed the city and killed thousands in 1995, Kobe is a trendy Japanese port city in the Kansai region of the country. With a population of about 1.5 million and close to Kyoto and Osaka, it is also one of the larger metropolises in Japan. I recently […]
Posted on July 26, 2011 2 Comments
Exactly one year ago, I arrived in Japan to begin my tenure with the JET Programme as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Namerikawa, Japan. My plan was to stay a year, save some money, see another side of the world and then come back to start my life in Chicago. Things moved so fast, and I […]
Sheila Burt 