ehimerateam – Page 6

*

Unbeaten Paths: Toyo 2022 – The New Faces

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:September 30, 2022
Post category:The Mikan Blog Unbeaten Paths: Incoming JETs
Post comments:0 Comments

Edited by Jordan Rocke

Welcome to the after-summer 2022 Unbeaten Paths! For those who are new to the premise, this is a set of introductions, divided by region, of the new JETs in our community! There’s no obligation to write an introduction, so this isn’t an exhaustive list of all the new folks, but I’m always really glad of how many people do take the time out of their day to put an introduction together. If you are a new JET who missed out and would like to be included , please reach out at themikanblog@gmail.com and I can add you in!

(more…)

*

Backtrack #21: Just A Lot of Heartful People (Ingrid Lezar, Uchiko ALT 2008-2011)

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:September 2, 2022
Post category:Stories from JET Senpais The Mikan Blog
Post comments:0 Comments

What’s your name, when and where was your placement, and where are you from originally?

I’m Ingrid Lezar (née Strasheim), originally from Stellenbosch, South Africa. My placement was in Uchiko from 2008 to 2011.

(more…)

*

Two Whole Days of Near Non-Stop Rugby: The Tokushima AJET Touch Rugby Tournament

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:August 23, 2022
Post category:AJET Events Events and AJET Community The Mikan Blog
Post comments:1 Comment

By Jonty Cook

Every year – barring the Covid Era – the Shikoku University hosts a touch rugby tournament over a summer weekend for all to participate in. This year, we managed to scrounge up an Ehime team of 5 people to play, with another joining along as our support, photographer, and sideline coach. Not quite the team of a required six on the field, but we were ready to accept our role as the scrappy underdogs, underestimated by everyone and determined to shock and awe. We were the Ehime Goonies.

(more…)

*

Listen to the Japanese School Band

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:August 3, 2022
Post category:Teaching and Japan Life The Mikan Blog
Post comments:2 Comments

By Patrick Peh

A Door Opens

Beyond this door, you will find young aspiring musicians of Uchimiya Junior High School preparing for their big day tomorrow. Tomorrow is August 2nd, which is the second day of the JHS division for the 70th All Japan Band Competition in Ehime. This band of 30 odd members will perform under category A in the competition. This article hopes to be a refreshing post as I only talk about Japanese bands in schools, which is different from The Sea, The Iwa & The Classroom where I would write about things around the neighborhood.

(more…)

*

Unbeaten Paths: Nanyo 2022 – Latecomers and Second Chances

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:July 4, 2022
Post category:The Mikan Blog Unbeaten Paths: Incoming JETs
Post comments:0 Comments

Edited by Jordan Rocke

G’day everyone! Here’s part 2 of the roundup of 2020/21 JETs who haven’t had a chance to introduce themselves previously. If you’re looking for the Chuyo and Toyo folks, you can find them here!

(more…)

*

Unbeaten Paths: Toyo & Chuyo 2022 – Latecomers and Second Chances

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:June 17, 2022
Post category:The Mikan Blog Unbeaten Paths: Incoming JETs
Post comments:0 Comments

Edited by Jordan Rocke

G’day everyone! Once again we are gathering up introductions from new Ehime JETs. This pair of articles is going to be a collection of odds and ends. We’ll have bios from some folks who have arrived in the past few months, delayed due to a series of pandemic and/or military based inconveniences, as well as a few folks who for one reason or another weren’t able to get an intro in closer to when they arrived. My goal is to have these articles be the last entries for the 2020/2021 arrival group, so we can smoothly move on to focusing on the 2022 arrivals later this year!

We didn’t quite have enough entries for Toyo and Chuyo to justify separate articles, but I hope to have Nanyo out within a fortnight of this article! If you are a new JET and would like to be included in one of these Unbeaten Paths, please get in touch at themikanblog@gmail.com.

(more…)

*

To Clean the Mirror: Why I Love Yokai

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:April 26, 2022
Post category:Hobbies and Interests The Mikan Blog
Post comments:0 Comments

By Andrew Pappas

Monsters have always fascinated me. I used to be really afraid of them when I was a kid. My aunt and cousins like to retell the story about the time a witch mannequin at a shopping mall scared the heck out of me, so much that I refused to take another step and my mom had to take me back to the car. I was then again struck with terror that same day by a werewolf mannequin in a bowling alley till my uncle brought me over to it and pulled off the mask to reveal a cardboard cut-out of Elvira, the famous cult horror movie show hostess, and I saw there was nothing to be afraid of.

(more…)

*

Everyone is an Expert: My Love of Trivia

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:March 31, 2022
Post category:Hobbies and Interests The Mikan Blog
Post comments:0 Comments

By Jordan Rocke

Hey！It’s been a bit quiet on the blog for a while, so I decided to do the thing I do whenever there’s a gap and write an article myself. I’ve edited this blog for so long that I get very anxious writing anything as I have to be my own editor, and lord knows I need a better editor than me to be readable.

Anyway, today I thought I’d talk about trivia, and why I adore it. Trivia is such a weird thing to describe, just a random series of facts about, by design, unrelated or barely related topics. I was obsessed with history as a kid (and still am now). This worked out for me, because my primary school teachers would use trivia quizzes as filler activities during pre-holiday periods (which is basically what I do with trivia games now too). I still remember knowing the inventor of penicillin in year 6, and being in the handful of kids who got prizes for their scores.

(more…)

*

The AJET Roller-Coaster: President’s Summary

Post author:ehimerateam
Post published:March 8, 2022
Post category:Events and AJET Community The Mikan Blog
Post comments:0 Comments

By Christian Jalim

Salutations you amazing mikans! T’is I, your gracious AJET President taking his final bow as he steps down. We are in our second year of the pandemic, and it has just been a constant roller-coaster for everyone, but we have all endured, adapted and survived.

(more…)