{"id":21883,"date":"2011-10-15T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21883"},"modified":"2011-10-15T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T17:09:30","slug":"return-to-tohoku-alma-jennings-goes-back-to-iwaki-city-in-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/15\/return-to-tohoku-alma-jennings-goes-back-to-iwaki-city-in-fukushima\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Tohoku: Alma Jennings goes back to Iwaki City in Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks to JET alum Christy Jones<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the Japan Society<\/strong>\u00a0in New York<\/a> for letting JETwit know about fellow JET alum and Japan Society colleague\u00a0Alma Jennings<\/a> (Fukushima-ken, Iwaki-shi)<\/strong>\u00a0who has written about her return to Iwaki City in Fukushima where she went to volunteer and reconnect with old friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to Alma’s writing on the Japan Society website: \u00a0http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/page\/earthquake\/updates_from_japan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s the intro from the Japan Society website:<\/p>\n

“Like many young Americans interested in Japan, Alma Jennings<\/strong>, a Development Assistant at Japan Society, participated in the JET Programme and lived and taught English in Iwaki City on the southern coast of Fukushima Prefecture between 2008 and 2010. In September 2011, Alma returned to Iwaki City to visit her friends, former colleagues and students. She also went to the Iwaki City Volunteer Center to volunteer. Here is the first-part of a three-part series on her experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CLICK HERE to read more Return to Tohoku<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0posts by other JET alums.<\/p>\n

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*************** Thanks to JET alum Christy Jones\u00a0of the Japan Society\u00a0in New York for letting JETwit know about fellow JET alum and Japan Society colleague\u00a0Alma Jennings (Fukushima-ken, Iwaki-shi)\u00a0who has written about her return to Iwaki City in Fukushima where she went to volunteer and reconnect with old friends and colleagues. Here’s a link to Alma’s writing […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,378,369,102,304,282,368,132,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-japan-local","category-japan-society-round-up","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-traveltourism","category-volunteer","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t