JETache November 2003

Editorial

Welcome to the final edition of JETACHE 2003. Hopefully many of you will have enjoyed the film festival a month or so ago and, hopefully again, some of you may have seen the photo exhibition staged by our chapter of JET Alumni in the Christchurch library recently. If not I’m sure we’ll display this again in the near future.

I’d have to confess to having put JETACHE on the back-burner for a while because of all the other pressures of life but thankfully a few current JETs have come through for me and submitted plenty of splendid material. Inside this issue you’ll find:

Did you ever wonder what your JET experience would have been like had you arrived, not only with your wife, but also with your 8 kids? Read the hilarious articles submitted by Simon Lafaele’s wife and find out! The final episode will feature in the next JETACHE.

Karen Potts sent in some 'diary' articles she has been publishing in the local newspaper. I suspect her sports-day wick may be just about flickering out. Just a feeling I get.

All the latest happenings in the world of sumo with a write up from the Fukuoka Basho, and a few tidbits from a JET couple who were actually there!

So grab an egg-nog (sp?), slouch on down in your comfy chair and enjoy a bit of reading from Nihon. Merry Christmas, fa la la la la and all that.

Please send any material for publication in the February issue to Blair McMillan

Cheers.