As for tradition, JETAA Toronto hosted its annual Japanese cooking class for departing JETs as part of their Japanese cultural training. This year, the cooking class was held on Wednesday, July 9th between 5:30-8pm at the Trinity St. Paul’s United Church at Yonge-Spadina. Around 25 participants, including new JETs, JETAA and JAVA volunteers turned up to cook up a storm in the tiny community kitchen.
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It’s that exciting time of the year when newly selected JETs are getting ready to leave for their new life as ALTs or CIRs in Japan. It’s not hard to remember similar feelings of ecstatic and anxious anticipation of the journey that awaits them. And along with the excitement comes the craziness of trying to get ones life, luggage and paperwork in order before leaving Canada for an unspecified amount of time.
Each year representatives from the seven Canadian JETAA chapters come together for CanCon, which is a conference hosted by annual rotating chapters and gives delegates a space for discussing the successes and hardships faced by individual chapters. It is also a great time for idea sharing and networking amongst the JET Programme Alumnus across the country, building better bridges between Canadian JETAA Chapters. The 2013 CanCon was held and hosted by the Quebec/Atlantique chapter in Montreal, with the 2014 CanCon scheduled to rotate to the Manitoba/Saskatchewan chapter in Winnipeg. Due to limited capacities, though, the conference was re-scheduled to be hosted by JETAA Toronto at the Japan Foundation, in coordination with the Consulate-General of Japan and CLAIR New York. The conference was held Friday June 6 to Sunday June 8, and focused on career development and mentorship initiatives. This article gives a quick summary of what the event was all about and what was discussed throughout the weekend.
The Embassy JET Desk in Ottawa is hiring a new JET Programme Coordinator! Applications are due July 11th for the position which starts in September. Please visit the following link…