a merkypie in jpan

A lot of information has came my way these past few days! Yay~ This past Monday I found out more information about my potential situation in Ishikawa. There’s three predecessors and three incoming JETs, but we have not been paired up yet. Our welcome packages have been mailed out and we should receive them sometime […]

In the mail yesterday, I got two letters from the IRS saying that they were just now processing my certificates and I won’t receive them until 30 days of the date on the letter (June 5th). So that means, July 5th was when I’m going to get them. It did not help that they received […]

Everyone always asks how they should prepare for the JET Program. What do they need to do to be ready for the application process. It’s just one basic question with several different answers. But, for some reason, this answer is never amongst the sea of answers. Be prepared to wait The JET Program is a […]

  60 days from today, as I write this journal entry, I will be sitting in a hotel in the middle of Tokyo awaiting the first day of Tokyo Orientation. I seems like yesterday where I was looking at this countdown clock and it said 117 days till departure. Then 100. Then 90. Now 60. […]

I was unable to make it to the 1st Q&A today XD I got a call this afternoon from the car rental agency saying they had a shortage and if I still wanted my car rental, it was going to be pushed back to 4pm. After checking the weather and taking into consideration rush hour […]