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Laura’s Work and School Environment on JET I have a special blog post today!  Some of you interested in the JET Program may have already read my post: My Work and School Environment on JET, if you haven't please check out the post:

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Recontracting or not?

So my recontracting forms are due today. And I am at a loss. I have no idea what to do.

Here’s a  little background, 

I live in a small town, on the edge of Hyogo Pref. 

Currently I have a broken leg. 

I am a tape recorder, entirely at my Junior High. The JTEs aren’t bad but they are standoffish and only want me to pronounce things and not really contribute. 

I go to ES once a week for 24 weeks over the year, which I really love doing. I get to plan and control the lessons with support from the Home Room Teachers and staff there.

I have an around 3-5 hours at JHS free a day. 

My Japanese has hit a huge plateau in the last year and I am not motivated to continue to learn it at the moment.

I don’t really have many job prospects in my area of study waiting for me at home, so I would either have to start a new degree or just go back to working in retail

I really love living in Japan and it was a dream of mine as a kid to live here

A lot of my friends are not recontracting and returning to their home countries

From this list, it’s kind of obvious that I probably wont be staying here for the right reasons if do decide to stay. 

Anyone have any advice to making the decision to stay a 3rd year or not?

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Getting a Japanese License!

Getting a Japanese License!

Let me start off saying that I am happy that I come from one of the magical countries, I mean I am so extremely happy that I am from New Zealand and not the United States. Nothing against the States but getting a Japanese license was so much easier being a Kiwi. Getting right into it, certain countries have agreements with the Japanese Automobile Federation, and thankfully New Zealand is one of…

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