{"id":12,"date":"2013-10-30T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:50:26","slug":"mckenzie-forbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/2013\/10\/30\/mckenzie-forbs\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenzie Forbs &#8217;10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17\" alt=\"McKenzie Forbs\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-face-300x256.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-face-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-face-624x534.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-face.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Major: East Asian Studies<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 25 years old and graduated in 2010. I came to Japan to be an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) in Miyagi prefecture, the fall following graduation. I stayed for 6 months and came back in March after the Tohoku Earthquake. I&#8217;m now back in Japan teaching in Tochigi prefecture. A typical start of the day has me making up at\u00a06AM, getting to the town&#8217;s station by bicycle (a 15 min ride), taking the local train (30 min) and then walking up an incredibly steep mountain (15 min). Usually I&#8217;ll have 2-5 classes a day where I&#8217;ll assist the main Japanese English teacher. I&#8217;ll help read flash cards or passages and sometimes instruct activities I&#8217;ve made. My last job I went to several schools, this time I only go to one (which I feel very lucky for). Often times you&#8217;ll eat with the students, and participate in school events, which gives you a chance to talk to them and you&#8217;re usually welcome to participate in club activities ranging from science clubs to art clubs to tennis (sounds like a cool way to get free kendo lessons!) Last time I was also able to find a nearby kyuudo (archery) dojo and it was awesome.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16\" alt=\"McKenzie Forbs\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-archery-187x300.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-archery-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/McKenzie-Forbs-archery.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/>This is a great job for anyone coming out as an East Asian Studies major and I highly recommend it. There&#8217;s nothing better than widening your cultural perspective (and language skills) than working in another country and Japan is an amazing choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major: East Asian Studies I&#8217;m 25 years old and graduated in 2010. I came to Japan to be an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) in Miyagi prefecture, the fall following graduation. I stayed for 6 months and came back in March after the Tohoku Earthquake. I&#8217;m now back in Japan teaching in Tochigi prefecture. A typical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}