I just read this again on some site. Lots of JETs have probably heard of a game called "the telephone game" - we know it better as "Chinese whispers" in some parts of the world. Considering what it involves (passing a message by whispering), the JET name seems to make sense...until you consider where it comes from ( Read more... )

Well...the one thing I MUST have with me is my passport...because I have to get it canceled ( Read more... )

Geh...I just got the call from the Singapore Mission in Osaka today, informing me that my new passport had arrived and that I need to bring my current passport to go and pick it up. It happens that I am actually in Shiga prefecture for a CLAIR language course seminar, and will have to go back through Osaka on Friday ( Read more... )

I've never mentioned this here before, but one of the major disappointments of my first year on JET was that the re-contracting conference was canceled. "Re-contracting" was a conference for JETs from all over Japan who were re-contracting for their second year on JET. It was held in Kobe towards the end of May, and many JETs would take it as an ( Read more... )

最近、日本語ばかり、頭がぐるぐるしてたまらない．．．後四日間だけ！

Yahoo!7 news reports that Australia is 
"...at bottom of education list"
 with only Belgium spending less than Australia on public education across primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. The wording of the article suggests that the people concerned (the researchers and the writers) believe that more funding = better education. I'm sure that anyone ( Read more... )

can turn what was a fun weekend into a disaster. I shouldn't comment on it directly, so let's just say that to the person who made the mistake, the consequences are about as bad as a teacher having been caught drink-driving. It doesn't affect me directly, except in generating immense disappointment, but it has also caused one of my senior co- ( Read more... )

I think 'farce' is the only appropriate word to describe the whole process.

Firstly, from the time of application, the bloody ISP took nearly four weeks to tell me they needed a photocopy of something I'd received a week after I applied for internet.

Then two days after I submitted that, they told me I could only get connected 10 days later because ( Read more... )

Meaning my parents. Called my Mum to tell her something I forgot, and ended up spending most of the phone call trying to teach her how to read messages on that dreaded Motorola phone which has now landed in her hands. i.e. the same phone that gave me headaches for a year whilst I was in Manchester; the phone that once belonged to my Dad and which ( Read more... )