grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 ...soon after March 11th.... Are they coming back, staying away or what? Where I work a few have come back, a few have transferred and a few have quit. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 A mate of mines has not only came back but jumped right into the middle of it and moved to sendai!! He surprised everyone because he was freaking out with the shaking and the radiation and of course the big wave that washed half of Tohoku away, that we all thought if he ever came back he'd head west....nope, decided to go and work up in Sendai!! Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Sounds like a bit of a nut job ^^ We had one guy (French) do a runner on the weds after the quake. He came back last weekend. No-one said anything about it but I believe everyone is thinking the same thing. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Why did he do that TB? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 He said that once he made up his mind to come back to Japan, he wanted to go and help........so he got a gig teaching in a JHS/SHS but he's also been asked to do classes at the childrens hospital as well Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 Certainly an interesting decision! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 I suppose there were a fair few places opened up in that region as well, so fairly easy to find something. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 One guy fled from here in Kobe! He came back rather sheepishly a month later. Link to post Share on other sites
Saitaman 1 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 From Kobe?! Because of the events of March 11th? Bet he must have felt slightly silly. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Sendai is a nice city, with probably the best climate in Japan. They're also unlikely to have a big earthquake anytime soon. It seems sensible to me. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Yes makes some kind of sense that. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Yeah Soubs, he says that it wuld've been beautiful place to live pre-march 11th. Near to the station its quite easy to forget that a serious disaster has occurred. He says that theres plenty of the city untouched and its all spread out and open, nice parks etc then as you start making your way down towards the coast the devastation starts to encroach street by street. Muika, I've heard on the grapevine that a lot of big ALT companies are offering extra money and enhanced salaries for teachers to go up and work there as most have buggered off and they are struggling to fill positions. Link to post Share on other sites
HighlyTrainedNovaTeacher 2 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 I like Sendai. Good place. Gambare Tohoku, as they say. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: soubriquet They're also unlikely to have a big earthquake anytime soon. It seems sensible to me. Good point and sounds like common sense. Then again, I thought that about this area until we had the Chuetsu Oki jishin in 2007. Then the north Nagano one in March this year. All rocking pretty much the same region, the bastards! Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Yes, Niigata and offshore tectonics are horribly complicated. You have my sympathy. The only upside is (from memory) the faulting around Niigata is mostly strike-slip, and doesn't build up the strain like the subduction off Miyagi. More smaller earthquakes may not seem like much compensation though. Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 We've had our share now, so we should be good for the coming near future. That's what I believe anyway! Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 One has left for good, leaving his company in a bit of a bind. Long run though that is how he did most things - irresponsibly. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I know one who left and came back, and one who left for good, but who had been looking to leave anyway. Heard of others who left for good, leaving their former employer and co-workers short-handed. But all short-termers who had been here on a lark anyway, I think. Don't know of any long-termers who left. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 I heard a few of the AETs locally here ran away. I think the situation was just overwhelming for them, couldn't speak much Japanese and were alone etc. I can understand being scared by it all. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Did they come back eventually? Or just leave for good? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Not sure. I heard that one of them came back but haven't heard about others. Link to post Share on other sites
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