Welcome to my blog, Brett in Sabae. This is where I'll chronicle the next year in my life as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Sabae, Fukui, Japan. While I envision this mainly as a way for my friends and family to follow me in my adventures, I hope to pick up some future JETs and maybe some random folks as well.
I suppose I'll use this first post to fill everyone in on myself and what I know so far...
I'm a 22 year old American from Corning, California. I graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles in May with a degree in politics. I applied for the JET program last fall, and after an incredibly long wait I found out that I had been 1) accepted 2) placed in Fukui Prefecture and 3) placed at a high school in Sabae (with a few months in between each of those notices).
All I know about Sabae so far is that it is in the rural Fukui prefecture, it's a town of about 60,000 people, and they manufacture 20% of the world's supply of eyeglass frames. There seems to be some sweet skiing and hiking opportunities nearby, and maybe if I'm lucky I can get in on some touch rugby and Buddhist meditation. Hopefully I'll learn a bit more as I get in contact with my predecessor, and of course ultimately I'll be there in only two weeks time!
I suppose that's all for now, and I suspect my next post will be from orientation in Tokyo!
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so you are pretty much being followed by the whole provine fam! :) i love reading blogs and yours sounds very interesting. enjoy yourself and post lots of pictures!
ReplyDeleteMUMBLY IN DA HOUSE! Glad you are safe and in japan. This blog better be interesting, or else you fail. There are too many labels and options on the right side of the page, i thought you had like 8 entries but they are all the same thing just labeled differently. damn you.
ReplyDeleteps you better get some buddhist meditation in while you are there! Do ya boy proud.
and touch rugby? thats it? you betta be breakin skulls and shouting HOUSE OF PAIN as you do it. You are 4x the size of anybody there. Blackshirts baby!
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