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Gifu JETs 2022-2023 Photo Contest ResultsA huge thank you to all the participants for your submissions in the first Gifu JETs Photo Contest!! All of them were fantastic and the judges had a difficult time narrowing down a winner. Smartphone Category WinnerName: Ara Rivadeneira Title: Hanami Cruising by the Suimon River Date: 2 April 2022 Location: Ogaki City, Hanami Cruise Stand-alone Category WinnerName: Andrew Dunlop Title: The Mountains of Gifu Date: 2 October 2022 Location: Mount Norikura, Takayama City Caption: Now this is big potatoes. You can see the complete gallery of all the photo contest submissions here: Stand-alone Camera Gallery Smartphone Gallery We would like to announce the first ever Gifu JETs Photo Contest! Please see the attached flyer for more information. Also, there is no deadline to apply. Any current JET may participate in the contest so long as the Event Organizer is able to send you the submission link in time prior to the submission deadline. We look forward to seeing your amazing photos from all around the prefecture!
Season's Greetings and Happy New Year, Gifu JETs!
CLAIR has shared in their latest edition of CLAIR News two professional development opportunities for JETs in their final year on the JET Programme. These event are a mix of virtual and physical. 2023 Career Vision Web Seminar, 28 Jan After JET Conference and Career Fair, 18-19 Feb online, 26 Feb Tokyo, 4 Mar Osaka See "Read More" for more details. Source: https://jetprogramme.org/en/clairnewsdec2022/ NEW RPAs CHUNO Colin Jones Colin is an Argentine American first year JET from Houston, Texas. He is currently working at Mugi and Sekiuchi SH in Mino and Seki. Before coming to Japan, Colin studied at Texas Tech University, graduating with a Bachelor’s in History, with a Minor in Secondary Education. In his free time, Colin likes to play video games, read, and study Japanese and Spanish. More recently, Colin has started to get his feet wet with photography. If there’s ever anything you need help with, or if you just want a taste of Texas Sweet Tea or Argentine mate, just let him know! GIFU Cloe Ferrante Cloe is a first-year CIR from France, working at the Prefectural Office in Gifu City. She first spent a year in Japan as an exchange student where she worked with JET ALTs through her part-time job. This made her discover her love for education and pushed her to study instructional design when she went home, leading her to become an e-learning designer helping university professors with their online courses during the pandemic. Now on JET, she enjoys school visits and cultural presentations the most, and she will gladly help you out with digital education tools or Japanese interpretation. When Cloe’s not running around or hyperfocusing on obscure subjects, she can usually be found playing video games or pretending to be a pop idol at her dance studio. Emelie Vandenberg Emelie Vandenberg is an American from the snowy backwoods of New Hampshire. She earned a BA in Theater with a focus in dialect coaching and worked professionally as an actor, director, and dialect coach. Emelie now works as a SHS ALT in Gifu City and enjoys practicing Aikido, learning Japanese, playing DnD, and making a bundle of 1,000 origami cranes in her free time. She's looking forward to getting to know everyone and building new connections. HIDA Liam Arrandale Liam is a first-year JET from Manchester, England, UK. He graduated with a degree in Journalism and English Literature, and is now teaching at Kuguno JHS/ES and Enako ES. After work, you can probably find him in Konishi, his favourite izakaya in Enako. He likes football (soccer for the Americans), boxing, hiking and travel. Please feel free to join him in the gym or boxing dojo whenever you like. His Japanese is so-so, but he studies every day. He looks forward to helping Hida JETs get settled and is always available to help with day-to-day concerns. Shoot him a message any time! Kevin Sword Kevin is a fifth-year ALT from Vermont, USA. He enjoys sending and receiving postcards, hiking and yosakoi dance. On trips, he goes to temples and shrines to collect goshuin, a stamp and calligraphy that serves as proof of prayer. Goshuin can be very colorful and are a great souvenir to remember a place by. He also enjoys playing the piano at schools during break time. His favorite artists to play are Joe Hisaishi, the composer of the Studio Ghibli soundtracks, and the solo piano works of the late Hirotaka Izumi, of the jazz fusion band T-Square. He can help with a lot of stuff, including all about getting settled in Japan so definitely reach out! SEINO Matthew Beaven Matthew is a first year ALT from Perth, Australia, teaching in Ogaki City. Before coming to Japan, Matthew worked as a tennis coach whilst he studied a degree in international relations. He loves having conversations for hours on end on just about anything. He is also a big fan of sport (tennis, cricket, cycling, Australian Rules Football), music (mainly 80s), movies, books and politics. He looks forward to meeting new JETs and helping with any issues people may have. Connor Keane Connor is a first year municipal ALT from the east coast of the U.S. currently working in the Seino region at a junior high school in historic Sekigahara, just west of Ogaki. He enjoys cycling, creative writing, befriending stray cats, and eating entire watermelons in one sitting. His Japanese skills are weak, but his vocabulary is growing! He's pretty new here and is still learning the ropes, but he's excited to provide whatever support he can to the JETs of Seino. CONTINUING RPAs TONO Clinton-Khile Brägger Clinton-Khile Brägger is a half-Swiss, half-American boy from Los Angeles. He graduated from the Film and Television program at University of California, Los Angeles, where he majored in film production and directing. Now he is putting his film skills to use on his YouTube channels, where he chronicles his life in Japan, as well as makes tourism content for Mizunami City. Upon arriving in Japan, Clint quickly found a passion for Kyudo — a traditional form of Japanese long-bow archery — and has recently passed his second level skills test. Clint’s dream after JET is to open a Swiss fondue and raclette restaurant in the heart of Nagoya, and continue working on his film passion projects in his free time. Lindsay Lamp Lindsay Lamp is from St. Louis, Missouri, home of Budweiser, Fitz's, Imo's Pizza, Ted Drewe's, toasted ravioli... probably some non-food things, too. She majored in Psychology at Truman State University, and minored in Asian Studies. Before she came to Japan, she was working (and far more often, playing) as a behavioral therapist for children with autism. Lindsay moved to Japan in August of 2019. She lives in Mizunami (same as Clint), and teaches at three different junior high schools in the area. She usually cooks or plays video games, and she also loves hiking, music, watering her plants, and wandering around Nagoya. She looks forward to getting to know everyone, so please feel free to contact her. |
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