All Kinds of Goodbyes: Deciding Whether to Stay or to Go
By Bennett Pérez “Oh! Darling you gotta let me know, Should I stay or should I go?” -The Clash Time froze as I stared at the recontracting paperwork lying in […]
The Chronicles of EIKEN
By Andrew Fischer Nearly every ALT across Ehime ought to be familiar with the EIKEN, or Jitsuyō Eigo Ginō Kentei (Test in Practical English Proficiency). The EIKEN is similar to the Japanese-Language […]
“So Leh we make ah memory…
do sometin’ That new tuh meh, Make sometin’ that we could share, Post it up inside ah here…” Machel Montano Ft. Tarrus Riley, 2016 By Apphia Pereira Memory yuh […]
Flexibility: Being an Elementary School ALT in Matsuyama
By Ciaran As an elementary school ALT, I’ve played many roles. I have been the tape-recorder: reading dialogue from a script as the children fidget and try to match pictures […]
A Ken-ALT in a Special Needs School
By Ma. Antonette Lofamia A few weeks before leaving for Japan, I found out from my predecessor that I would be teaching in five high schools within the Nanyo B […]
Two in One: Teaching at an Ehime Secondary School
By Jose Catalan I’m a high school ALT in Imabari, Ehime and I’ve been here for almost four years. I know many of you have different schools you go to, […]
Undercooked: The Problem of Baking at Japanese Schools
By Josiah Ng Japan’s ministry of education announced earlier this week that it would again increase funding for its bread baking programs run out of the department of home economics, […]
The Tale of the Ten Fish
By Ada Smith I remember when I first came to Japan and heard stories of wild and crazy things that would happen to JETs; unexpected adventures that would happen or […]
Feast Or Famine: Being an ALT in a Senior High School
By Jordan Rocke For this article, I tried to thing of an interesting perspective I could provide here. In the past, I’ve talked with some first year Primary or Junior […]