{"id":12919,"date":"2010-07-31T19:39:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T23:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12919"},"modified":"2010-08-02T16:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T20:39:23","slug":"jet-roi-100-english-dreams-a-jet-project-by-christiana-aretta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/31\/jet-roi-100-english-dreams-a-jet-project-by-christiana-aretta\/","title":{"rendered":"JET ROI:  &#8220;100 English Dreams&#8221; &#8211; a JET project by Christiana Aretta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storiography.com\/english-dreams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12923\" title=\"100EnglishDreams\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100EnglishDreams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100EnglishDreams.jpg 303w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/100EnglishDreams-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/em>I received an email today from <strong>Christiana Aretta (Okayama-ken, Mimasaka City, 2004-07)<\/strong>, currently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#!\/Storiography?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.-based photographer<\/a>, letting me know about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storiography.com\/english-dreams\" target=\"_blank\">terrific project<\/a> she just completed that is just one of many creative examples of the the positive influence of JETs and the JET Program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since I read Jim Gannon&#8217;s post about JET on the chopping block, I&#8217;ve been putting together a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storiography.com\/english-dreams\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>100 English Dreams<\/strong><\/a> based on my students&#8217; experiences with English and my photographs of them. I initially planned this project as a book but decided to put it together as a website to show support for the JET Programme. I&#8217;ve just finished it today&#8230;..I&#8217;d like [this project] to be used in a way that garners support for JET and perhaps a deeper consideration for its budget.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the website for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storiography.com\/english-dreams\" target=\"_blank\">100 English Dreams<\/a>:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storiography.com\/english-dreams\" target=\"_blank\">www.storiography.com\/english-dreams<\/a><\/strong> If you ever question the value of JET or are concerned about its ongoing existence, this well-conceived site is very much worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a reminder that the JET and JET alumni community is made up of wonderful and talented people.\u00a0 And much of Japan&#8217;s Return on Investment from JET will come in unique and previously unanticipated forms such as what Christiana has created.\u00a0 Many seeds have been planted as a result of JET.\u00a0 Many have already blossomed (even if you haven&#8217;t heard about them) and many, many more will continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email today from Christiana Aretta (Okayama-ken, Mimasaka City, 2004-07), currently a Washington, D.C.-based photographer, letting me know about a terrific project she just completed that is just one of many creative examples of the the positive influence of JETs and the JET Program: &#8220;Since I read Jim Gannon&#8217;s post about JET on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3mn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12919"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12927,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions\/12927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}