This month Arjan Tulsi speaks to Canadian couple David Chan and Susan Wong about their Hyogo experience.  When were you in Hyogo and where were you placed? We were in Hyogo for 1 year from 2010-2011 and were Hyogo ALTs placed in Kobe. We got married the year before joining JET and were lucky…
Interviews with Hyogo JET alumni to find out what they are up to post ALT life. Â Andrew Brasher, originally of the USA, spent 4 years as an ALT in chic Kobe suburb Ashiya, and now lives and works just around the corner in Osaka. What are you doing now? Andrew: Right now I work…
A new regular feature, Where are they now? interviews Hyogo JET alumni to find out what they are up to post JET. Our first interviewee is the charming Simon Shone of New Zealand origin who spent two years based in Itami from August 2010 to 2012 and is now living in London. HT: What did…
Living in a small, rural Japanese village made me stronger. It’s like this. Now, after Japan, I train American students to prepare for the culture shock they will experience while living abroad. So, in small groups, I have them throw a tennis ball around to each other with one eye closed, using their bad throwing hand. This is awesome at first. Fun. They laugh. Then I…
“You get out what you put in†is my #1 bit of advice; #2 is to think strategically about where you want to be in the future, and then to volunteer for and/or create opportunities that can help you to get there.