Japan Exchange Teaching Programme ( JET)
Once a JET, a JET forever... We are celebrating 30years of Japan Exchange Teaching Programme. JETs worldwide are expressing their gratitude on the JET Arigato Campaign Page . I feel deeply honoured to have represented my country as a cultural ambassador on JET. And it is my pleasure and honour to express my gratitude through the JET Arigato Campaign.
Great sentiment was attached to my selection as JET because it meant a lifetime achievement for me to go back and renew my four years of childhood roots in Japan resulting in a lifelong attachment to the Japanese people and their culture.
JET gave me a newfound identity, fame and recognition in Japan as well as in the Japanese community back home. I am what I am in my life today because of JET.
Being assigned to Ise was an added reward. In my own time I could go there and be in communion with the holy, serene and beautiful surroundings of the Grand Ise-shrine.
JET gave me an opportunity to teach as well as enjoy cultural interactions which was a very rewarding experience. It gave me a chance to represent my country in a way that I had always wanted as well as bridge the psychological and cultural differences between people by introducing them to the similarities of their cultures.
Arigatou gozaimashita JET ! Kokoro kara kansha shite orimasu.
SIMRIT KAPILA ( INDIA) Misino Mura, Ise-Shi 2001-2003
ALT Junior High School/ELM. School & Board of Education Officehttps://twitter.com/arigatojet/status/758253210435850240
