News from your National AJET Rep: September ’11
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 trips, air conditioned grocery stores, and baseball games along with long, humid, long hours in the staff room.
Apart from the Tokyo Orientations, however, we’ve been busy with loads of other things to make AJET better for you! We were putting together our new Ezine (which will come out in September with loads of useful information), working on getting special interest groups established, making a new logo, making a new website, and lots of other things to make AJET more accessible to you!
We were also changing the face of AJET so that JETs can better understand what we do!
Community:Â We provide a community for JETs by facilitating Block Events, Volunteer Opportunities, and Special Interest Groups
Resource: We have redone the website to include tons of resources for professional development, services you might need in Japan, Education opportunities, and more!
Voice: We work to put together reports that we take directly to CLAIR and the 3 other governmental Ministries that run the JET program. We also feature stories that JETs want to tell under the AJET Voice on the website!
For continuing JETs and new JETs alike, if you have extra time on your hands in the autumn months, I’d like to present to you an opportunity to volunteer in Tohoku. NAJET and Peace Boat have been working together to make it easy for JETs to head to Tohoku to volunteer for a week! All you have to do is sign up for a team atvol.aid@ajet.net. They are taking teams of 4-6 and one person must speak Japanese well enough to translate for the group. Please read over the details at http://ajet.net/category/volunteering-and-charity/ .
That’s all from National AJET for now! Keep an eye open for an upcoming Block 6 event happening this fall!
Peace.
Your Block 6 Representative
Miriam
