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AET

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  1. What time does your post arrive?

     

    It really varies with me - sometimes as early as 10am and then sometimes as late as 3pm - and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it either. I'd like to know how they sort it all out (bored as I am this time of year!)

  2. OK at the school I am at now it seems that a lot of the students parents can't afford to pay for the school lunch. (Well, that's what they say anyway). As far as I can tell they send out a letter asking for them to pay and that's about as much effort that goes into getting non paying students families to cough up. After that, it's just 'shikata ga nai' and the school pays for the lunch. So I suppose taxpayers are effectively paying for it.

     

    From what a colleague tells me, over 25% of the kids aren't paying for lunch. Hardly an incentive for the others to cough up is it if they can get away with not paying so easily.

     

    Funnily enough some of these kids who can't afford it are coming to school in the latest Nike gear....

  3. Other things.... do they actually give you much actual choice these days, or just put preferences?

     

    Living in the inaka countryside is also considerably cheaper than in the big cities. Lots of inaka AETs traditionally find themselves much better off than the ones say in Tokyo or other big cities. If you want to be in a crowd of gaijin then cities might be the way to go. Personally when I came here I wanted countryside - didn't want to get into any gaijin-bubble.

  4. I have a few friends with Nova experience (before the latest stories) and they seemed pleased with their lot. A lot is going to depend on where they are, the management at the school etc. just as it is with some smaller operation - I've heard some horror stories from places like that as well. A lot of luck involved, and case by case - as they often tell you on the JET program too.

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