Beach Volleyball Event Report
Bumpin', Spikin', and Picnicin' with JETAA Toronto A gorgeous day with gorgeous people. If you weren’t able to make it out on Saturday, August 17th to the beach at Ashbridges…
Fighting Carps Victory
Fighting Carps take home the Silver!!
On a beautiful day out to be on paddling, the JETAA Fighting Carps were one of 32 teams competing for water domination and a good cause this year at the Oakville Charity Dragon Boat Festival on Sunday, August 11th. (more…)
Call For Submissions: JAVA/JETAA Art Exhibition
JAVA Toronto and JETAA Toronto invites artists in all stages of career to submit artwork reflecting the theme “Middle Distance” to their joint 2013 Exhibition.
Nakamichi / Middle Distance is an exhibition, which seeks to include (but not limit) a cross-section of diverse work from both Japanese and English speaking artists that can illustrate similarities and differences between cultures. The theme is open to interpretation but some concepts to consider are as follows:
- A point between foreground and background, part of a pictorial representation
- Transitory aspects of everyday life
- A point in time
- Mahyamaka – A Buddhist concept which stipulates a position between metaphysical claims that things either exist or do not exist. (more…)
Feature Essay: Completing My Japan Quest
Umeda Sky Building Osaka (August 2010)
“So how is Canada?”
“Uh… Toronto is quite good…”
I’ve had this conversation in some form or other countless times since I landed in Japan three years ago. Anyone who’s visited Japan knows that Japanese people are naturally curious about your home country or will often ask for recommendations upon planning a trip there. When they directed their curiosity towards me, however, I found myself at a loss.
“Where do you recommend going in Canada?”
“I hear BC is nice. I think you can see the aurora in the north. Anne of Green Gables takes place in PEI… maybe?”
You see, before I came to Japan I was utterly uninterested in travelling (especially my own country, yuck!). Though my friends would go on about their amazing Eurotrips and getaways to the Caribbean, I scoffed in secret, deploring such wastes of money. Seeing the world just didn’t seem worth it, and the whole cult of ‘investing in experience’ was a first class ticket to financial woe in my mind.
But I did want to see what all the fuss was about. And after deciding that a PhD and a life of academia wasn’t for me after finishing my Master’s, moving to Japan seemed like the quickest way to jump into the deep end. So I applied to JET. (more…)
Japanese Lessons With JETAA
We are pleased to offer JLPT-focus Japanese classes to JETAA Toronto alumni! Lessons will be half conversational, half structured lesson. Dates: Mondays, September 30, October 7, 21, 28 ; November…