Food! Goodness me, school lunches!

[samurai]

Just thought I'd toss my 2 yen into the topic. When I was on JET, 95% of the time I left school and walked the few blocks to the cluster of restaurants around the train station and ate there. 5% of the time I ate at school, sometimes in the teachers' office, but usually in the cafeteria with the kids. I typically ordered a bowl of ramen, which wasn't very good but was quite inexpensive, at least.

[eFred]

Just thought I'd toss my 2 yen into the topic. When I was on JET, 95% of the time I left school and walked the few blocks to the cluster of restaurants around the train station and ate there. 5% of the time I ate at school, sometimes in the teachers' office, but usually in the cafeteria with the kids. I typically ordered a bowl of ramen, which wasn't very good but was quite inexpensive, at least.

I was under the impression that you couldn't just leave school grounds for lunch. Is this an ESID thing as well?

[samurai]

Just thought I'd toss my 2 yen into the topic. When I was on JET, 95% of the time I left school and walked the few blocks to the cluster of restaurants around the train station and ate there. 5% of the time I ate at school, sometimes in the teachers' office, but usually in the cafeteria with the kids. I typically ordered a bowl of ramen, which wasn't very good but was quite inexpensive, at least.

I was under the impression that you couldn't just leave school grounds for lunch. Is this an ESID thing as well?

Yes, it is. I knew of others that had the same option, and some where the schools didn't really want them to leave but didn't put up a fuss if the JET did now and then. If your school let's you do it, I'd advise that you check before you leave to see if you'll have a class to teach in the period after lunch, and don't be late getting back if you do. As long as I was careful about that, and didn't go any further than the couple blocks walk to the restaurants around the station, they were fine with it.

[word]

Just thought I'd toss my 2 yen into the topic. When I was on JET, 95% of the time I left school and walked the few blocks to the cluster of restaurants around the train station and ate there. 5% of the time I ate at school, sometimes in the teachers' office, but usually in the cafeteria with the kids. I typically ordered a bowl of ramen, which wasn't very good but was quite inexpensive, at least.

I was under the impression that you couldn't just leave school grounds for lunch. Is this an ESID thing as well?

Yes, it is. I knew of others that had the same option, and some where the schools didn't really want them to leave but didn't put up a fuss if the JET did now and then. If your school let's you do it, I'd advise that you check before you leave to see if you'll have a class to teach in the period after lunch, and don't be late getting back if you do. As long as I was careful about that, and didn't go any further than the couple blocks walk to the restaurants around the station, they were fine with it.

WORD.

My contract clearly states that I have an hour for lunch, and that I may do as I please during that time. That said, my school vastly prefers for me to eat lunch with the students, and it would probably cause some hurt feelings or something if I suddenly decided I wanted to go eat at a restaurant every day (there's only one in my village, anyway). Personally, I try to include myself in as many school functions/classes/whatever as possible. I wanna be a part of the team, yanno?

[punnyIA]

It's kinda a requirement for me to bring my own lunch because I have a gluten allergy. Granted, it's not the kind that I break out in hives or suddenly cant breathe, but it does make me super tired. Or at the very least, the school or a restaurant nearby has to have some form of a healthy alternative (I can have sushi as long as theres nothing fried in it (i.e. tempura)).

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