Date: January 26th
Time: 2-4pm
Location: Nagomi Japanese Restaurant
Whether you’re going to the job fair or not, please join us after for yummy, yummy ramen! Give us some ideas and feedback for our JETAA chapter, and trade JET stories with people who understand you.
We’d like as many members out as possible to plan next year’s events. Hope you can make it!
Update: Due to scheduling issues and sickness, this meeting is cancelled and will be re-schedule to a later time. Thank you for your understanding! Merry Christmas and happy holidays 🙂
Are you interested in finding out what we’ve been working on? Please attend our Board Meeting on December 20th on Google Hangouts!
Date: December 20, 2018
Time: 7:30-9pm
Location: Google Hangouts!
See you there!
Please join us on January 26th, 2019 for the Great Lakes JETAA Job Fair! If you are interested in working with Japan or are knowledgeable about the Japanese language or culture, please come and meet employers that are looking for candidates with a global perspective. You will have the opportunity to meet with companies, submit their resumes, and network.
Please dress in business formal attire. Please register at https://tinyurl.com/gljetaajobfair
Date: January 26, 2019 @ 10am-1pm
Location: Sheraton Hotel (Google Maps)
21111 Haggerty Rd, Novi, MI 48375
Was your 2018 full of achievements and glories? Or was it full of pitfalls and failures? No matter, come celebrate all that happened in 2018 with Great Lakes JETAA at Tomo Sushi and Karaoke on December 9th at 3pm! Let’s close the cover on a year full of ups and downs and lefts and rights!
This will be an early dinner plus evening time karaoke :3. Looking forward to seeing you!
Date: December 9th @ 3pm
Location: Tomo Sushi & Karaoke (Google Maps)
2959 E Big Beaver Rd, Troy, MI 48083
Please join us on October 14th at the Spicer Orchard! Activities include apple picking, hay rides, animal feedings, and corn maze. This event is family friendly, but there is a winery for those who don’t want it to be so family friendly. Learn about JETAA and meet other members while doing what Japanese people love doing; picking large quantities of fruit!
This is not a JETAA sponsored event so everyone is responsible for paying for their own apples, wine, activities…etc. Everyone who attends will get a apple pie recipe that I may have printed from a website from Googling “Apple Pie Recipes”.
Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 1 PM
Spicers Apple Orchard
Hartland Twp, MI 48430
Please welcome the new Officers and Board of Directors of 2018-2019!
Officers
President: Megan Worden
Michigan VP/Secretary: Alicia Smith
Ohio VP: Jennifer Sherman
Treasurer: Bill Schlatter
Webmaster: Lily Sun
Board of Directors
Kate Simon
Debbie Kim
Eric Smith
Robert Corder
Country Rep
Faye Valtadoros
Hello everyone! My name is Bill Schlatter, and I was on the JET Program from 2012-2014. I taught at many high schools in Hokkaido, and lived in Iwamizawa, near Sapporo, from 2008.
I am running for GLJETAA Treasurer because I like being involved in the JET alumni community, and I have already been active in volunteering for the organization and attending board meetings over the last few years.
When I was in college, I was the treasurer of my university’s anime club for two years. There, I learned the importance of keeping an organization’s financial books in order – especially an organization that relies on grant funding, like GLJETAA. As treasurer, I led my university club’s application for funding to greatly expand their annual convention, which led to the event tripling in attendance in two years. When Great Lakes JETAA is ready to expand its programming, I intend to keep Great Lakes JETAA’s finances in good order so that, we will be able to secure the funding needed.
Thank you.
Dear fellow alumni,
My name is Eric Smith and I was an ALT in Shizuoka from 2002-2003 and served as Great Lakes JETAA President in 2008. I’m proud of the efforts my fellow officers and successors made to build up our chapter after a few years of disrepair. I’ve worked with officers in many other chapters as well as staff at CLAIR New York. In 2015, I helped rewrite the bylaws and I always do my best to support current officers leading the chapter to even greater levels of activity.
My motivation for running as Director of the Board is to offer my formal support to the officers and ensure that he chapter remains open, transparent, and responsive to member needs. Understanding that my role would be largely advisory, I believe I have the time once again to give back to an organization and program that played an important role in my life.
– Eric Smith
Shizuoka-ken, ALT 2002-2003
My name is Debbie Kim and was a ALT in Tenryu-shi in Shizuoka-ken in 2002-2003. Like many JETs, my life was forever changed after working and living in Japan. I have always wanted to continue promoting both the JET Program as well as provide support for the Great Lakes JETAA community. Since coming back from JET, I have worked with the Detroit Consulate to do annual JET interviews, volunteered at the JET departure orientations, and taught Japanese language classes for departing JETs (many years ago when many JETs didn’t have Japanese language abilities). For JETAA, I served as treasurer in 2008 with a focus on transparency in Grant in Aid funding. I also volunteered as part of the voting committee for JETAA, ensuring that elections were credible and adhering to the current bylaws.
With all the progress that the Great Lakes chapter has made after my tenure, I have no doubt that new officers will continue to build on the many accomplishments of previous board members. As the chapter continues to grow, I hope to be an additional resource for officers and members. I am so impressed by the JETAA members who I’ve seen volunteer time and time again to promote the organization, but I’m also inspired by all the new members I see posting on the Facebook group or coming to JETAA events. By serving as a board member, my role will be to foster that engagement and growth in a community that will always be near and dear to my heart.
My name is Kate Simon; I am the Program Director of the Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU). I have worked at JCMU since 2007. Prior to this, I served as a privately contracted Assistant Language Teacher in Iwate Prefecture (2004-2006) and completed the Lansing Community College Japan Adventure Program with the Biwako Kisen Corporation in Shiga Prefecture (1999). These experiences led me to become a passionate supporter of the strong relationship between Japan and the United States. In my professional capacity with JCMU, I work closely with numerous organizations that contribute to U.S.-Japan relations including the Consulate General of Japan in Detroit, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the Michigan-Shiga Sister State Board, higher education institutions and local organizations. As a member of the Board of Directors, I would leverage these connections to promote the goals and activities of the Great Lakes JETAA and further the work of maintaining a strong Japan-U.S. relationship.
Note: No candidates have submitted platforms for Michigan Vice President or Event Coordinator.
Greetings from Lauren Gassman and Jamie Mucaria, your voting committee for this election cycle. We are seeking platforms from all JETAA members who would like to run for an officer position!
We are looking for the positions of: President, Vice president of BOTH Michigan and Ohio, Secretary, Treasurer, Webmaster, and Event Coordinator. Each of these positions will serve a term of two years.
We are also looking for members to fill our Board of Directors position (3 members), who will be serving a term of 5 years.
To better understand what these positions entail, please see the JETAA website where we have current bylaws posted.
If you are interested in any of these positions, you MUST submit a platform. Ideal platforms include: Name, Location and years on JET, (1) Reason why you are running for this position, (2) What contributions or qualifications can you bring to that position, and (3) What goals do you envision for that position. Please make platforms around a paragraph in length.
PLATFORMS ARE DUE BY MARCH 1ST. Please send platforms in a word document to Jamie Mucaria at Platforms will be posted shortly after the deadline of March 1st. If you have any questions regarding submission of platforms, please do not hesitate to ask. We hope to see a great turnout of interested members!
~Lauren and Jamie
UPDATE: The new meeting date is the 27th.
Place: The Southfield Public Library.
Time: Sunday, January 27, 2018 at 1 p.m.
Are you thinking of getting more involved in GLJETAA? Join us to discuss our future.
Address:
Southfield Public Library
12-9-2017, 5pm-9pm
Family is welcome, we are scheduling as cost sharing event (GLJETAA will cover the room cost and possibly some appetizer).
KTV Bistro
32415 John R Road,
Madison Heights,
Michigan 48071
