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cheryl · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Japan

Hi guys,

congrats on all who've made it to the program! i'm in ottawa canada and haven't heard from JET yet...should i be worried? my interview was the stinker but on the other hand, i have decent qualifications...
cheryl

sakhan2 · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject:

Hi Cheryl,

I wouldn't be too concerned, I am also in Ottawa, apparently the embassy is still getting waves of selection confirmations, and they can't send out your letter until it arrives from Japan. Should be here soon though. I would call Christa at the embassy (senior JET coordinator)..she is very helpful.

Also, for the others, Nena you mentioned that you don't know your placement until you get to Tokyo? THat is not true. Short list candidates find out their placements by May. Alternates on the other hand may find out as late as the end of August. I suggest you read my (second) post reply to "Jet Alternates"...hope its helpful.

TiGrBaLm · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:20 am Post subject:

cheryl · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Japan

Dear Sakhan2,

thanks for your reply! i did call the embassy (as you instructed) and you were right! they said the last letters were mailed out last friday.

cheers,
cheryl

sakhan2 · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:30 pm Post subject:

Your welcome Cheryl...good luck!

TB:

If you get placed closer to the end of Aug, then yes your contract period will be accordingly shorter.

Nena · Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 7 Location: London

Hey, the envelopes came this morning, and my boyfriend and i both got places!! So let's hope they manage to place us nearby each other, if not we'll be freeing up our places for a couple of alternates. Another few weeks of waiting... Wink

Mariana · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Bavaria

Hi!

I STILL haven't heard from JET and I'm climbing the walls! Do they bother telling you if you've been rejected?

If you just get placed as an alternate, and you reject it (because of not being able to stand waiting another minute longer!) does that automatically stop you from being able to apply the following year? I know you're not supposed to be able to re-apply if you reject a place once you've actually been accepted, but I'm not too sure about what happens if an alternate turns down his/her offer. I know I should probably just ring JET up and ask but I'm terrified they'll just tell me outright that I've been rejected, and I'm still hoping desperately that I might have been accepted, and I'm going to hang onto that hope for as long as possible! Embarassed

Yrs

Mariana.

sakhan2 · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:55 pm Post subject:

Mariana,
rejecting the offer before you've been placed does not prohibit you from applying next year. Only if you reject after accepting and being placed.

Sorry you haven't heard, they should send you a letter either way...good luck!

biker · Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 1

My boyfriend and I have been accepted. We received our letters on the same day. Hopefully we will be placed together or at least close to one another. If we aren't in the same town or city but we are close to one another we may live in a town inbetween us and commute to work (if that is possible). If we aren't, we will have to think long and hard about what we should do.

Nena · Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 7 Location: London

Biker, well done on both of you getting in. Obviously we're really happy to have got accepted (we can't believe we both got accepted, in the interview, when asked what we'd do if one of us got accepted and the other one didn't, we messed up - my boyfriend said he wouldn't go if we both didn't get accepted, while i said we would still go! good planning there!)

But now i'm really wondering what our chances are of being placed nearby. Just seen a post on the BigDaikon forum by a girl who's out in Japan now - her boyfriend got placed somewhere 7 hours away!!

It's annoying that the only way to be guaranteed to be placed together is to be married! I guess if we do get placed miles apart, one of us could accept, and the other reject and try and find a job nearby...Or we can go teach english somewhere else...

Mariana, have you heard yet? good luck

cheryl · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Japan

HO HUM, i'm still waiting for my confirmation/rejection letter....ho hum

Renea Bartlett · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 5

I'm in Atlanta and my letter came Tuesday. I'm in, too!

Mariana, in reference to your question, I turned down alternate status a few years ago. Basically I didn't want to wait any longer and had another job offer. As long as you don't accept and then turn down a placement at a later date, you can reapply the following year.
Good luck.

Mariana · Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Bavaria

Still no news! At this rate I'm going to have no fingernails left! I think if there's nothing in the post tomorrow, I'm going to crumble and ring JET after all. Then again, I might just accept the job in Germany and reapply to JET next year, regardless. At least I'll be better prepared for the agonising wait! Smile

Thank you to those people who wished me good luck! It means a lot to me.
Yrs,
Mariana.

cheryl · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Japan

Mariana,

i'm still waiting for my letter too so i know how much your nails are taking the beating for your situation. However, i got good advice today instructing me to re-call the embassy i was interviewed at....i think you should do the same. Ask your embassy why you're still waiting. i found out that my embassy forgot to put my apartment number on my letter therefore it was sent back to them. Now i'm waiting for them to resend the letter again. Nice huh! I'm the last person in ottawa to know whether i'm rejected or not. humph.
good luck,
cheryl

cheryl · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Japan

don't know if anyone's still watching this thread or not, but i finally got my letter. i'm on the alternate list (aka limbo list). don't know what i did wrong, WHY DON'T THEY LIKE ME MAMA? Crying or Very sad