When in Yamanashi

ALT life in Yamanashi #trashdanash #thethirstysideoffuji

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When your landlord (BOE) tries to "subtly" tell you to pay rent on time.

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Actual photo of my desk after 2 days of 4 hours of meetings

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When you skipped breakfast and you really need snackfast, but you get skipped for omiyage.

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When you're pretty sure you understood that entire phone conversation

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When the JTE doesn't believe cursive is "real"

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JTE: Good morning. Today's classes.

Me: Oh, is there a change?

JTE: No.

Me: So it's just the regular Wednesday schedule?

JTE: Yes. Sorry to bother you.

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When Your JTE Looks a Little Too Excited That It's Your Last Day

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Giving up on convincing the JTE that something isn’t going to work

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When something mildly inconvenient happens and you start contemplating a Midnight Run™

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When the principal pops in on your lesson in the middle of an activity that’s going SUPER WELL and all the kids look engaged.

Bonus: the other 90% of the time the principal pops in:

[arisssachan]

That feeling when your student calls your stickers gross.

And I brought them from Straya too, why you not like? *cries*

[tundrafoot]

Top 5 disses a teacher can get.

[sagaprefecturejet]

How. Dare. They.

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The pain is real.

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When the JTE asks if we studied something in elementary school.

Students: 

Me:

[chars-counterattack-deactivated]

this is the pinnacle of power rangers

[tundrafoot]

2nd Year ALTs. 

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Get to school, mouse is gone...

Teacher next to me: my mouse stopped working, so I borrowed yours. But you can use this one!

-------------------------------Hands me said broken mouse-------------------------------

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Deciding that yes, you probably need a Japanese resume too

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Cutting out vocab cards in elementary school, every time

ALT: Please cut these cards out quickly so we can play a game.

Students: OK!

[pixelatedlenses]

If JET stated an idol group, would we be called ALT47?

[pixelatedlenses]

akhet:

sagaprefecturejet:

gaijinnomonogatari:

Each August there would be a televised competition with each prefecture deciding which ALT would be their idol for the upcoming year.

This should definitely be a thing

Right? Honestly, I’m enterprising. also, @sagaprefecturejet , the contest would be a great addition. I’ve got to think of a whitty name for it.

Here’s some sample song titles for you @akhet:

“Mascot no Ai” a song about the love of our prefectures mascots with a whopping 47 different version on a two-disc, limited edition CD

“Let’s hanashimasu!” a song about talking together with our students and others; its lyrics intersperse English and Japanese

“Eikaiwa Blues”, a crooning tune about a teacher missing a dinner date because of an emergency class

“Tokyo-yasumi!” a song about a break in Tokyo that was certainly hard-earned, and the adventure of finding new friends and making more language connections.

“Para-Para-Yokai Party Tonight!” a song for Halloween where we sing about a party with yokai and connect a foreign holiday with indigenous HJapanese culture respectively.

I’m full of excellent ideas. 

[bonesmakenoise]

Can I suggest a spin-off album for us salty altos out there who have no place in ALT47? We’re salty about being altos and just salty in general. Maybe leaning a little into a k-pop sound. 

My personal favorite idea is “GT-FO”. A loud, brash bash session against all of the guys I’ve known who’ve joined JET so they can be “just like Great Teacher Onizuka!” Get it? GTFO? GTO? It’s a pun.

Also an entire album of covers of songs for karaoke. 90% are from anime. 5 of them are different covers of Cruel Angel’s Thesis. One is a multipart-harmony bilingual version of Zenzenzense. 

[pixelatedlenses]

Ah, ALT47 is for all ranges, but of course, there are units just like any large group. I’m going to totally run with this idea for a moment though, and give you a little infomercial.

(Also, are guys really making that pun? Geez, time to catch up fellas, am I right? and how many men do you know making that joke? You’re definitely in my thoughts.)

-ahem- Let’s give a big round of applause to our first debut unit, GT-FO!

Known for a sound that is most definitely like no other, it’ll make you get up and dance and also want to overthrow the patriarchy! Standing for Great Teachers From (All) Over, this group of 18 altos from all 9 of Japan’s major regions will be coming out soon to croon and make you swoon!

Their first album, “My Angel’s Cruel Theses” features a smattering of hit 90s anisong: really, it only features a wonderful 5 covers of Cruel Angel’s thesis, including the innovative, fresh remix Zenzenzen, which features the opening line to the entire beat of the song and uses over 25 different languages to sing it! The limited edition comes packed in with six additional, never recorded versions of the song, including a remix set to international meme “We Are Number One!” alongside a poster, shirt, and signed photobook of all the members.

 Are you ready for some education, because class is in session Summer 2017!

…Something like that, eh? I had a lot of fun there, and hope you’ll enjoy @bonesmakenoise .

[readysetgaikokujin]

If I can dress up in a glitzy mismatched glitterbomb pair of parachute pants and sideways cap paired weirdly with a denim jacket, and have the rest of the group match me, I volunteer as tribute to ALT47.

[pixelatedlenses]

That’s actually the garb for our single “Wanna Be Sky High With My English!” which is a song about soaring with what you can do, not what you can’t do! It’s a rather inspirational song with lots of trumpet and synth!

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[girlwhobringshay]

So does this mean the former ALTs can form their own porn company?

[readysetgaikokujin]

@girlwhobringshay I wish you could have seen me do a LITERAL double take at my computer.

[wheninyamanashi]

Who should Yamanashi send and also what porn can we have a song about the restaurants we’ve caused too many shenanigans at to return? Asking for a friend.