This is a game board I made for a few my HS students. The aim of this game board is to make sentences with the verbs that the students land on. The players have to tell each other in which tense the sentence has to be. All you need is a dice and…
Hello Hyogo-ites! Just as I did last year in these very pages, I would like to encourage prospective returnees to join their local JET alumni chapter upon going home. Through local chapter activities, former JETs are able to promote a broader and deeper understanding between Japan and their home country at the grassroots level…
This month the Hyogo Times spoke to Brandon Kramer, a native of Virginia, US who has remained in Japan after spending 2006 – 2011 in Sasayama on JET. What did you hope to gain doing JET? Did you? I hoped to see things from a different perspective, try something new, learn a language, and…
Hyogo Board of Education’s annual Skills Development Conference November 21-22, 2013 Attended by 485 ALTs and JTEs A review by two JHS ALTs: This year’s Skills Development Conference was a pleasant surprise. Sort of. Well, there were pieces that were helpful and interesting. Unfortunately, there were more parts of the Conference that were frustrating and…
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…
In the whirlwind that was the first few months of living in Japan, I was lucky enough to have two second year JETs to hold my hand. They showed our ragtag crew around the area and together we went to a Hanshin baseball game, a tour of Kobe, and even to Hikone castle. On one…
For most reading, I’d assume you understand the term ‘long distance’, but saying this to my Japanese colleague caused a bit of confusion. You see in Japanese this term would be translated as ‘long distance love’ (é è·é›¢æ‹æ„›). My argument is that two people do not necessarily have to be in love (cynical I know) to…
Along with an influx of eager new ALTs, this JET year two charming new CIRs have arrived in our great prefecture. Let’s give a warm welcome to Joshua and Simon and find out just what those mysterious PAs actually do…  Joshua Kaplan “I’m one of the two new Hyogo Prefectural Advisors, hailing from…
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…