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While at the Kansai International Airport I thougt about having food. So I went over to the food stand. What to have, hmmm, so many choices. Should I have the ham and chadder cheese panini? Hmmm… something about that just doens’t sound right…

At the Kansai International Airport there are many images made out of train tickets. It’s a pretty cool thing to see. Acording to this website they are all from the Namba-Nankai line which is the very line I took to travel to and from the airport.

So, incase you don’t know, I recently moved to Japan as part of the JET program. I moved from Australia to Mie-ken in Japan to teach English. I arrived in August, which is school holidays for the kids. So my first time teaching in Japan wasn’t at a school but was at a Summer “camp” for children aged 5 to 11ish. It was at two locations each with two sessions. It wasn’t exactly a camp, but more like a class that the kids came to. It involved all the middle school/elementary ALTs, some JETs some not, in my area.

So you bet your bottom I was surprised to see Lordi, a Finnish heavy metal band who won Eurovision in 2006 (and Eurovision hasn’t been the same since) on the list of songs at my local crappy karaoke place.

Here is my Statement of Purpose. I don’t know if it will be much use to you, but it got me an interview and now I’m in Japan, so something from it must have worked.

I think the SOP is very important in the written application. Perhaps the most important part, but who knows. Here is a page where I got advice from: The Jet Programme, Statement of Purpose. Basically I went all over the internet and got inspiration from everywhere.

And now, here is my SOP, in all it’s (lack of) glory. No editing here from me for spelling or to turn down the arse kissing, this is how I sent it in… Perhaps you can take away something from it, even if it is a couple of giggles. Enjoy