Posted on March 16, 2007 by Angie Davis
My previous job was as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) on the JET program, where I worked in Gunma prefecture at a Junior High School and two Elementary Schools. I spent a year experiencing everything from signing autographs, playing Aussie Rules Football and making speeches in Japanese at school assemblies, to witnessing punch-ups between teachers and students in the staff room, police visits to arrest students, and being told to personally DIE by a lovely female 2nd grade Junior High School student.
I had many expectations about my time on JET, some were met and some were never attainable. However, I learnt a lot about respecting Japanese people and culture, and accepting that there are many things that we as foreigners cannot expect to ... Read More
