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... who is an English teacher in Japan (I have a great many friends in a great many places who do a great many things) who pointed me out to something called the JET program.

The requirements are a bachelor's degree, some ability to speak Japanese, and a residency in one of the participating countries. The program is designed to help introduce Japanese kids to English culture. You spend one year there.

He teaches 1st graders, and in his opinion 1st grade Japanese kids are much, much cuter than American ones. They do things like numbers, letters, really simple stuff in english. Four days of the week he travels around the town he's located in (about an hour's drive from Hiroshima), visiting different schools and teaching the kids a bit of English. The 5th day of the week he has to the office and does, quote, "nothing." (in other words, he spends the time talking to me on AIM)

The pay is pretty good. He is making an excess of $3,000 American a month. That is pure spending money.

Talk about a kickass job. Once I get my bachelor's degree I am signing up for this. I've always been interested in Japan, and the ability to spend a year teaching 1st grade Japanese students English is awesome. If this at all sounds appealing to you, I highly suggest you check it out.

  • 09.10.2004 12:04 AM PDT
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That's funny because americans don't start to learn/take foreign languages until high school. Then we get to choose which one we want. Spanish is the second language in the US so I wanted to learn it.

  • 09.10.2004 4:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: Josher 35
That's funny because americans don't start to learn/take foreign languages until high school. Then we get to choose which one we want. Spanish is the second language in the US so I wanted to learn it.


Sure we do, I went through similar programs. By second grade I knew how to count to ten in spanish, and I knew all the letters of the alphabet.

  • 09.10.2004 6:16 AM PDT
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At my junior high you could start taking zero hour french in 7th grade, which count towards highschool credits.

  • 09.10.2004 7:03 AM PDT
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The only language I can learn here is French. Now, having moved from Holland, I also know that. But I won't be able to learn anything else except if it's on my own time. Of course, I could go to some really good boarding school that offers everything, but unfortunatly my family just doesn't have the money for that.

That would be cool though. If only.... What is it that people like so much about Japan?

*sigh*

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  • 09.10.2004 7:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: Josher 35
That's funny because americans don't start to learn/take foreign languages until high school. Then we get to choose which one we want. Spanish is the second language in the US so I wanted to learn it.


Sure we do, I went through similar programs. By second grade I knew how to count to ten in spanish, and I knew all the letters of the alphabet.

WOW thats amazing!!!!

  • 09.10.2004 7:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: Stickman Army
The only language I can learn here is French. Now, having moved from Holland, I also know that. But I won't be able to learn anything else except if it's on my own time. Of course, I could go to some really good boarding school that offers everything, but unfortunatly my family just doesn't have the money for that.

That would be cool though. If only.... What is it that people like so much about Japan?

*sigh*


The land is, by all count, beautiful.

For one thing, you're probably taller than everyone else. I'm 6'0, by no accounts the tallest American, but compared with the Japanese I'd be pretty damn big. I am irritated by the young Japanese males. Walk the streets of Japan and you will feel an extreme lack of individualism. BUT, as far as the little kids or women of Japan - they're rather adorable.

  • 09.10.2004 7:22 AM PDT
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I love japanese culture. I haven't been yet, so Im not going to try to convice you that Im completely informed, although I do read alot. I plan to go soon though.

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Posted by: ObbiQuiet
The land is, by all count, beautiful.

what's left of the countryside, sure. cities are cities.

For one thing, you're probably taller than everyone else. I'm 6'0, by no accounts the tallest American, but compared with the Japanese I'd be pretty damn big.
it's funny, most of my pure-blooded japanese friends that were raised here are 6'0+. i myself am 6'3", but i'm a hybrid. i'm convinced it's the american diet.

I am irritated by the young Japanese males. Walk the streets of Japan and you will feel an extreme lack of individualism.
it's hardly their fault. that sort of thing is programmed starting at infancy. bear in mind though, that japan (in my estimation) still produces the most bizzarre people on the planet.

  • 09.10.2004 8:52 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Sounds fun. Im only 13 though, so my bachlers degree is about a year or two away.

I was kidding in the end there. I'm not THAT stupid.

But by no accounts am I that SMART either...

  • 09.10.2004 9:51 AM PDT