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Originally Posted by OsakaPapa

Thanks for the warm welcome! :3 This is by far the best forum I've seen which people talking about Japan. The only other one I knew of was BigDaikon, and there's a lot of jerks on there XD

Big Daikon...I know of that place. Loaded with jerks, seemingly, and I'm not the type to say stuff like that.

I Think I'm Lost is a nice site to go to. Seems a bit milder than what it used to be. Not as many smart allecks like when I first went. I got bashed on that site because one person did a search, and saw I wrote fanfictions in the past and liked anime and manga and even bashed my avy, which I like, being a Legends of Zelda fan and all. But meh, it's a lot better now that I've gone back. Samurai007 (think that's the name), who is also on this site, goes there now too. He's very wise on the whole JET thing, as are a lot of others here.

I haven't started on my SoP yet either, and since I'm a well known procrastinator, I'll probably do it shortly before I hand in my app >_>; But I'll try my best to get it done before that! Maybe this will help break my habit XD And yeah, I'd really try to get your schooling issues settled a.s.a.p. Sometimes dealing with government agencies can be lengthy process (hey, look at the application process >_>)

I know I mentioned the school issue early on in this thread earlier. Easy to miss, though. Here's the post. This is pretty much my only hindrance....so far. If things go right, I should be done by March or so.

Have either of you guys zeroed in on somewhere you'd like to live yet?

Hokkaido region, definitely. One of the places I mentioned earlier was Ishikari, Hokkaido, but even if not that, I'd still prefer someplace in Hokkaido, but "fairly central" so that I can travel, have access to public transit and stores and such. I don't want to live in a big city, but I don't mind being close to them.

The main reason I'd like Hokkaido, or even northern region of Honshuu, is mostly because of the weather. I think I can handle the cold more so than the heat, but if I do end up as a JET, and don't get my choice, doesn't matter too much. I'm already expecting that there's that chance that I won't get that placement.

My second choice would be Tochigi, but only for a shallow reason. I chat with one of the members on Tochigi BOE, and we correspond through e-mail, but of course it takes a while ot reply back and forth because of language barriers [he just sent me another message a while ago], so I'm sure that he would be very helpful to me if I were placed there. He was very nice, and seemed to really appreciate it when I helped him when I met him last year during a teaching convention.

My third choice, I'd probably have to say Saitama...maybe, but only because it's my sister city.

Edit: Here's the chart you mentioned.

I'm a bit curious now. For those who got to the interview process, did the interviewers ask why you chose certain placements?