u/Kibumkimkibum

RANT
Okay so my English Club went on a trip without me.

Basically, like many JETS we are encouraged or forced to join the English.
And you know right now is summer time so we have an infinite amount of desk warming time.
My JTE that I do the English club with came back after lunch and said she just got back from the field trip with the English and i was like wtf?
I told her a month ago that if they finalized the trip and go through with it I want to come. She said if I want to come I have to ‘finance the trip myself’ which isn’t a problem because it’s a 10 min ride to the next town over and they were going on a tour to look at shrines.
She didn’t freaking tell me they were going today. I told her I wanted to go and she said “I didn’t know you wanted to come, it’s so hot today”
GURL WHAT ?! I told you I wanted to come. Why didn’t you ask me???? Why wouldn’t I want to come as opposed to sitting here desk warming? wtf??
I want to use this as a reason to quit the English club bc I don’t even like attending bc they never want to do anything except watch movies and play card games.
I’m simply assuming maybe she didn’t want me to come in the first place but just didn’t want to say “No” straight up.
Curious to see what excuses ppl will come up with lol

EDIT: ok so i asked my friend who has worked waaaay longer in a Japanese work environment+fluent in Japanese basically told me when the teachers mention i have to pay on my own and find my own way there(just giving reason as to why i basically shouldn’t go) was her basically saying “no you can’t come” LMAO. She reminded me how Japan is a very high context society so if they don’t say yes then it’s a no LMAO. So i learned my lesson and i will take a response like that as no.

What is some advice for lesson planning groups you give to new JETS?
I’ve been here a year, and basically the new JETS are here and asked some of us what kind of lessons to do and are extremely nervous bc they don’t have anything prepared aside from their introduction.
They are basically in the same boat as me-no textbooks or anything. No training. We don’t have a curriculum to follow. Just showed up and the JTE didn’t give us any advice what to teach.
I gave them some of my ideas from my lessons plans and told them to try to plan a fun introduction.
But what kind of advice or lesson plan ideas do you all have for the first few months when u started? Did you have textbooks? Did you do lessons immediately or play games?

(I mean this in the nicest way-Please read this and understand my feelings of isolation. I feel like ppl are reading to respond and not actually reading to understand)😭(also pls take into account that ppl have different personalities and not everyone enjoys being alone 24/7 and being a homebody)😭😭😭

Hello. So to all my Inaka JETS what do you do to keep yourself from going insane?
I have nothing here except a mall and Karaoke.
I started taking Koto lessons so it gave me something to look forward to every other week.
Aside from that i have no idea how to keep my myself entertained. After work i go home and there is nothing to do (aside from studying Japanese, yes I know)
I play soccer but there are no girl teams around me to join. I’ve searched for a year and found nothing, even my JTE tried to help me.
I like art and i used to join an art club where I used to live before Japan, but there isn’t anything like that here.
After work i just come home and study Japanese, idk what else to do.
I’ve volunteered a few times which was cool.
The population is small and dwindling every year, sometimes it’s like a ghost town outside, so I’m not even sure how to make friends bc the town is so empty and it’s hard to find ppl my age.
I’ve knew after 5 months of being here i wanted to leave, but i only stayed cuz i need/want a job and i wanted to try and travel around Japan. This 2nd year will definitely be my last.
There are some small town festivals coming up, but aside from that what do you guys do for fun???
(i should also mentioned-I just moved from Seoul. I had the best 4 years there living in a big city. So this is a major change for me to move to the middle of new where haha)