Placements

[dtrue]

My heart just leapt out of my chest when I first read this.......the wait is almost to an end. I can't wait.

[sloth]

Hey everyone!

Well all the contracting organizations have names now. Prefectures are all ESID though, but my contracting org aka a cho-BoE already knows the names of the 2 people taking our spots, and we can contact them now. Don't worry placements will be coming VERY soon. Again though, prefectural ALTs may take longer to find out specific cities, but everyone will know more or less where they are going soon.

On that note, anyone from Singapore named Angie? Because I'm your predecessor! I'm so excited to meet all the new JETs!!

thank you sweet baby jesus! This is perfect timing. I just got done with finals~!

[mobiuschic42]

Do any past upgraded alternates remember if they heard about their placements at the same time as everyone else? I (and 2 other people from Boston) just got upgraded last Tuesday. I think that was kind of the end of the leeway period to allow shortlisters to get their paperwork in, so I'm guessing we shouldn't be tooo far behind the main group, but I'm wondering if there'll be a delay.

[Gekishinken]

Do any past upgraded alternates remember if they heard about their placements at the same time as everyone else? I (and 2 other people from Boston) just got upgraded last Tuesday. I think that was kind of the end of the leeway period to allow shortlisters to get their paperwork in, so I'm guessing we shouldn't be tooo far behind the main group, but I'm wondering if there'll be a delay.

I asked my coordinator when I was upgraded on the 7th and was told that I would find out either at the same time as everyone else or only a little while (a few days at most) after.

[mobiuschic42]

Do any past upgraded alternates remember if they heard about their placements at the same time as everyone else? I (and 2 other people from Boston) just got upgraded last Tuesday. I think that was kind of the end of the leeway period to allow shortlisters to get their paperwork in, so I'm guessing we shouldn't be tooo far behind the main group, but I'm wondering if there'll be a delay.

I asked my coordinator when I was upgraded on the 7th and was told that I would find out either at the same time as everyone else or only a little while (a few days at most) after.

Thanks! Since I was upgraded on the 8th, I assume my situation will be similar.

[jou_chan]

Excited!!!!

[Teishou]

I'm just meh. They'll come out when they do.

[teabot]

Ditto. Time to go back to the obsessive email checking phase of the JET Application process, a phase that seems to take up a majority of this whole thing! I can't wait to find out!

all the anxious waiting is training for when you get here and you spend days sitting around in offices doing nothing. lol

[nyc_to_japan]

Ditto. Time to go back to the obsessive email checking phase of the JET Application process, a phase that seems to take up a majority of this whole thing! I can't wait to find out!

all the anxious waiting is training for when you get here and you spend days sitting around in offices doing nothing. lol

LOL, I see they have it all figured out - training us from the moment we begin applying so we can truly be amazing JETs from day one! ;D

[AVN]

Ditto. Time to go back to the obsessive email checking phase of the JET Application process, a phase that seems to take up a majority of this whole thing! I can't wait to find out!

all the anxious waiting is training for when you get here and you spend days sitting around in offices doing nothing. lol

Man I would kill for a desk day at the moment!
ESID

[Hawkeye]

Man I would kill for a desk day at the moment!
ESID

Please be very, VERY careful what you wish for!

[AVN]

Man I would kill for a desk day at the moment!
ESID

Please be very, VERY careful what you wish for!

I didn't say I wanted it everyday, I know about the downsides of it.
I was just trying to warn people that not every JET placement is a slack job with tons of desk time.
I teach at 11 schools, plus 3 after school clubs and usually go to 3 schools a day. With driving time lunch with students and teaching time there are often days with 5 minutes of free time and no time to breath.
I prefer it over boring BUT it can be tiring.

[KIKKI.K]

Man I would kill for a desk day at the moment!
ESID

Please be very, VERY careful what you wish for!

I didn't say I wanted it everyday, I know about the downsides of it.
I was just trying to warn people that not every JET placement is a slack job with tons of desk time.
I teach at 11 schools, plus 3 after school clubs and usually go to 3 schools a day. With driving time lunch with students and teaching time there are often days with 5 minutes of free time and no time to breath.
I prefer it over boring BUT it can be tiring.

wow, 3 schools A DAY?! perhaps you could ask them to just do one school a day? and go to the schools once every two weeks or so instead? I thought my friend doing 2 schools a day had it rough, but 3 is even worse... T_T

[AVN]

Please be very, VERY careful what you wish for!

I didn't say I wanted it everyday, I know about the downsides of it.
I was just trying to warn people that not every JET placement is a slack job with tons of desk time.
I teach at 11 schools, plus 3 after school clubs and usually go to 3 schools a day. With driving time lunch with students and teaching time there are often days with 5 minutes of free time and no time to breath.
I prefer it over boring BUT it can be tiring.

wow, 3 schools A DAY?! perhaps you could ask them to just do one school a day? and go to the schools once every two weeks or so instead? I thought my friend doing 2 schools a day had it rough, but 3 is even worse... T_T

I live in a town with a population of 4000 so even when I teach all the students at 3 out of the 4 of my ES that's a total of 2-3 hours. So I usually teach 2-3 hours at one ES plus lunch then drive to the next and do 2 hours there. Then I go to either an after school club/eikaiwa a nursery school or Tutoring.
When I go to only 1 school the day is pretty empty so...

[KIKKI.K]

I live in a town with a population of 4000 so even when I teach all the students at 3 out of the 4 of my ES that's a total of 2-3 hours. So I usually teach 2-3 hours at one ES plus lunch then drive to the next and do 2 hours there. Then I go to either an after school club/eikaiwa a nursery school or Tutoring.
When I go to only 1 school the day is pretty empty so...

AH, that doesn't sound as bad as I thought^^