Anyone applying for 2018?

[phthalocyanine]

i was shitlisted too!!

Join Date: Nov 2007 ?! Did you reapply after having done JET before? congrats to both you guys! on to the paperwork lol

[mothy]

i was shitlisted too!!

You've been on my shitlist for years!

[Popapop2]

congrats to all

[acpc2203]

Is JET still the gravy train? Some of the new people in my prefecture are getting screwed over on rent/key money because so many people broke contract.

[mothy]

Was it ever a gravy train?

[word]

Was it ever a gravy train?

In the '90s? Didn't they used to fly 'em over first class?

[acpc2203]

Ini will tell us about how each JET used to have manservants and be chauffered around in Toyota Centurys while the ground they walked on was worshipped.

[Rupa123]

Placed in Saitama prefecture, unsure how i feel about it yet

[OatsCurrySummer]

Placed in Saitama prefecture, unsure how i feel about it yet

Would you rather an island with no conbini, trains or shops? Count your blessings.

[Jiggit]

Be nice, currybloats. At least your Island doesn't have any scary foreigners.

[acpc2203]

At least you didn't get Tottori or itsabird's island.

[mothy]

Placed in Saitama prefecture, unsure how i feel about it yet

Welcome to my hell.

[Rupa123]

I mean I’m not sad about it, I knew pretty well I’d probably get it because ohio has a sister state partnership and someone in Saitama Cory gov told me JET really values that. I spent a semester near Tokyo (near Disney) so i feel like it’ll be similar in the sense I try to go there a lot, so I kinda wish I was somewhere totally new, but it isn’t bad and I can find an ALT job somewhere else after

[phthalocyanine]

I got a fishing town with 50k people in Toyama. Not sure what kind of inaka level this is? I guess 50k isn't too bad. It's half an hour from the closest bigger city. I'm looking forward to it but also so grateful for the shinkansen stop in Toyama city lol

[mothy]

doesn't sound that bad.

[mothy]

I mean I’m not sad about it, I knew pretty well I’d probably get it because ohio has a sister state partnership and someone in Saitama Cory gov told me JET really values that. I spent a semester near Tokyo (near Disney) so i feel like it’ll be similar in the sense I try to go there a lot, so I kinda wish I was somewhere totally new, but it isn’t bad and I can find an ALT job somewhere else after

sorry, my reply was all snark. I've lived in saitama since 2007, so happy to give you more info once you have a better idea of where in saitama.

[phthalocyanine]

doesn't sound that bad.

It looks pretty sleepy but beautiful. Somewhere I'd never have heard of or visited otherwise. I think I'll really like it.

[OatsCurrySummer]

town with 50k people in Toyama. Not sure what kind of inaka level this is?

Not to be all Inaka Wars up in here, but it's not.

[Jiggit]

Yeah Toyama is fairly inaka but Hokuriku in general is "good inaka" so you can have your cultural spiritual Japan journey while also not being boned to any real extent.

[Rupa123]

sorry, my reply was all snark. I've lived in saitama since 2007, so happy to give you more info once you have a better idea of where in saitama.

One of the first things that comes up when you google “Saitama JET” is a thread from this site’s archives and an argument breaks out against you saying Saitama isn’t great hahaha.

But awesome, didn’t know you were still around there! I’ll post when I get my actual placement