PEPY (formerly “Protect the Earth, Protect Yourselfâ€) has a new acronym to reflect their changing focus as an organization. Though they still care about the earth and sustainability, PEPY’s true focus is on education in Cambodia, and the hope that an investment in today’s youth of that country will lead to a better future for…
Greetings all from National AJET! Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween! Thanks for all those who came out to the Block 6 and 7Â AJET party in Amemura. It was a spooktacular success! As we head into holiday season and look forward to winter trips, food, and ESS Christmas parties, please try to make…
The fall has been a crazy productive time!  National AJET has released its eZine, the AJET Connect, which will continue (alongside the Hyogo Times) to provide useful information, recipes, resources, and teaching materials to you.  Also keep an eye open there for volunteer opportunities and travel deals that are coming up over the Winter Break due to…
Greetings Hyogo! National AJET has been especially busy over the past month. I made the trek to Tokyo for Orientation A and B to meet and assist the incoming JETs! Hopefully you are all settled into your homes and schools by now and you are enjoying the perks of summer in Japan, which includes beach…
Hello Hyogo JETs! First, we have lots of people to whom we want to thank (in Japanese, ‘cause we want to be cool) for their hard work this summer – hopefully we’ve covered everyone. ãŠç–²ã‚Œæ§˜ (otsukaresama) to those of you who sweated through the JLPT this July (literally and figuratively)! If you’re still panicking, just…
See the photos from Hyogo AJETs Sayonara Party last month!
Hello again, Hyogo JETs! Enjoying the soon-to-be-smoldering weather? I only have a few very brief announcements this month. Brief but important, so don’t start scrolling or clicking somewhere else just yet – yeah, I saw that. Officially as of June 15, Miriam Rollason will be taking over this little chunk of Hyogo Times as the…
As you no doubt have heard, we have lost two fellow members of our JET family to the Tohoku tragedy. We at National AJET are asking the JET community to honour Taylor Anderson and Monty Dickson by sending postcards for an online tribute to our extremely devoted and sorely missed JETs, both of whom were…
Hello Hyogo. I know that this a rough time for everyone in light of the Tohoku earthquake. We are very lucky to be so far away from all that is going on, but please keep your nakama in the north in your memory and hope that they are all safe and sound.