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Post by hohoEMIsen on May 23, 2017 17:27:05 GMT 9
I've been reminiscing about Tokyo Orientation all day: + the view + meeting other cirs - jet lag - boring KOUZA + a few of the KOUZA were useful and fun + Tokyo - not really being able to enjoy Tokyo because of the jetlag and stress - not being served any Japanese food at any of the meals at the hotel, WTF was that about?? + despite the minuses it was pretty bants hue seriously? what kind of food did they serve? curious. |
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Post by Mumblesnore on May 23, 2017 18:51:52 GMT 9
I've been reminiscing about Tokyo Orientation all day: + the view + meeting other cirs - jet lag - boring KOUZA + a few of the KOUZA were useful and fun + Tokyo - not really being able to enjoy Tokyo because of the jetlag and stress - not being served any Japanese food at any of the meals at the hotel, WTF was that about?? + despite the minuses it was pretty bants hue seriously? what kind of food did they serve? curious. Western style breakfast buffet (so no rice or miso soup) and then pasta for lunch. I was so sad. |
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Post by hohoEMIsen on May 23, 2017 21:15:33 GMT 9
hue seriously? what kind of food did they serve? curious. Western style breakfast buffet (so no rice or miso soup) and then pasta for lunch. I was so sad. GAH. I see... Let's see how this year is like ( ε: )三(.ω.)三( :3 )三('ω')三( ε: )三(.ω.) |
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Post by Dee on May 24, 2017 3:00:15 GMT 9
I read a couple of JET blogs that said the breakfast buffet was ok, but lunch was usually not very tasty... sad.
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Post by CaptainSeery on May 24, 2017 8:50:17 GMT 9
I've heard that they serve the same food every year. Especially the lunch pasta, I've heard many years of JETs complain about it.
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Post by Mumblesnore on May 24, 2017 8:55:36 GMT 9
It's weird because it's such an OSYALE hotel.
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Post by Sheepy on May 24, 2017 9:11:30 GMT 9
I was group C, so there were only like 40 JETs there all together, only 3 of us were CIRs.
This made the orientation so much more interesting because then they would just directly call on each of us to answer questions or talk about whatever.
This became really interesting during the 翻訳・通訳 sessions and the like ビジネスマナー session.
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Post by no yark shark on May 24, 2017 9:12:02 GMT 9
I think it's because there's just so many JETs. I stayed in Keio Plaza for an orientation the first time I came to Japan in high school, and since we were much smaller (maybe 100 people?) they just gave us tickets to get into the actual hotel buffets and it was great.
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Post by Hokuto on May 25, 2017 9:51:30 GMT 9
"oh look at me, i'm no yark shark and i get to stay at super fancy hotels" |
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Post by B.B.P. on Jul 7, 2017 11:08:53 GMT 9
April orientation was absolute hell for me, had major jet-lag and was the only native English speaker in the group of 80. I found the seminars really boring a lot of the time but the cir presentations and translating and interpreting ones were actually pretty useful. we stayed at a hotel in Kojimachi close to clair and the food was supposedly good (vegetarian,vegan and allergies all got placed at the same table with sandwiches everyday...(;.  ) Word of advise : don't do the Japanese language course that CLAIR talks about at the orientation, its the biggest waste of time and almost an insult to CIR's.(it was sort of similar to taking n4 or n3 of the JLPT...) the advanced course is far from advanced with grammar points such as そうです coming up frequently. I finished the 6 month course over the space of 8 days when I had free time at my desk. |
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Post by Sheepy on Jul 20, 2017 9:21:41 GMT 9
I never finished the language course hue
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Post by Mumblesnore on Jul 20, 2017 13:03:21 GMT 9
Yeah they really need to put NOT FOR CIRS in the explanation of the course in 72-point red font hue
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Jul 21, 2017 10:28:40 GMT 9
Thanks for the heads-up! I'll let my fellow CIR hulemdos (who are not on the forum) know as well  |
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Jul 31, 2017 17:53:32 GMT 9
So apparently, this year, they did announce that the Japanese Language Course is for N5 to N3 standard.
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