{"id":23331,"date":"2012-01-24T21:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=23331"},"modified":"2012-01-24T21:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T01:45:59","slug":"jetaa-chapter-beat-1-24-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/24\/jetaa-chapter-beat-1-24-12\/","title":{"rendered":"JETAA Chapter Beat 1.24.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jonathantrace#h150-180\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Trace<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnto.go.jp\/eng\/location\/regional\/fukuoka\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fukuoka<\/a>-ken, 2005-08) takes us on a walk around the JET Alumni community for another edition of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/category\/jetaa-chapter-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Chapter Beat.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA New York<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23332\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Japan.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>JET Alumni Survey &#8211; <\/strong>JETAANY is asking members and friends of JET to fill out a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/columbia.qualtrics.com\/WRQualtricsSurveyEngine\/?Q_SS=9Faxv7R7D09gshm_aaPiy4desJmtEqM&amp;_=1\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> requested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as part of the &#8220;Return of JET-vestment.&#8221; The survey asked about what people have been doing following their time on JET and the data will be kept confidential, so take 5 minutes and help out. The survey can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/columbia.qualtrics.com\/WRQualtricsSurveyEngine\/?Q_SS=9Faxv7R7D09gshm_aaPiy4desJmtEqM&amp;_=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Carnegie Hall Flower Exhibit &#8211; <\/strong>Thursday, January 26th, 8:00 at Carnegie Hall. JETAANY is headed to a Japanese style bouquet arrangement exhibit at Carnegie Hall.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shinnenkai &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, January 28th, 1:00 at Restaurant Riki. Celebrate 2012 Year of the Dragon with your fellow JET Alumni at this year&#8217;s shinnenkai. Izakaya style dishes and all you can drink fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaasc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Southern California<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>San Diego Shinnenkai &#8211; <\/strong>Saturday, January 28th, 7:00 at Azuki Sushi. The San Diego subchapter is celebrating the Year of the Dragon over sushi, so come out if you haven&#8217;t been to an event in a while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc.jetalumni.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA D.C.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>JCAW Japanese New Year Festival &#8211; <\/strong>Sunday, January 29th, 11:00 to 3:00 at the Washington Plaza Hotel. The Japan Commerce Association of Washington is hosting its annual new year&#8217;s matsuri. JETAA members will be volunteering and squaring off in a Karaoke Sing-off, so come out and see what the festival is all about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnw.jetalumni.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Pacific Northwest<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/norwegian-wood-thieuvite.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23333\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/norwegian-wood-thieuvite-200x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/norwegian-wood-thieuvite-200x300.gif 200w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/norwegian-wood-thieuvite-682x1024.gif 682w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/norwegian-wood-thieuvite.gif 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dinner &amp; a Movie Night &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, January 27th, 7:30 at Genki Sushi.\u00a0<em>Norwegian Wood,<\/em>\u00a0based on Haruki Murakami&#8217;s book, is playing at the Seattle International Film Festival at the Uptown. Join PNWJETAA folks for a little sushi dinner followed by a 9:15 showing of the movie.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seattle-Kobe Sister City Association New Year Party &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Saturday, January 28th, 4:00. Get together with the SKSCA group and celebrate the year of the dragon. The shinnenkai will be potluck style, so be sure to bring a dish, dessert, or drink for everyone to share.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shinnenkai \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Saturday, February 4th, 6:00 at the Nagomi Tea House. Eat, drink, and celebrate the arrival of 2012 with your friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sydneyjetaa.org\/\"><strong>JETAA\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sydney<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beach BBQ \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Sunday, January 29th, 1:00 at Shelley Beach in Manly. Get outside for some sun and good eats, including yakisoba and suikawari.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Annual General Meeting &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, February 3rd 7:30 at the Nippon Club. Come and be a part of the future of JETAA Sydney.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.florida.jetalumni.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">JETAA Florida<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tampa Shinnenkai &#8211; <\/strong>Sunday, January 29th, 5:30. The group in Tampa is holding its annual new year&#8217;s party with sushi from Yoko&#8217;s Restaurant and homemade Curry Rice. Come out and ring in the new year with alumni and friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>What happened at your chapter\u2019s event?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>If you attend(ed) any of these exciting events, JetWit would love to hear about them. Just contact\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Trace<\/strong>\u00a0with any info, stories or comments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Trace\u00a0(Fukuoka-ken, 2005-08) takes us on a walk around the JET Alumni community for another edition of\u00a0JETAA Chapter Beat. JETAA New York JET Alumni Survey &#8211; JETAANY is asking members and friends of JET to fill out a brief survey requested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as part of the &#8220;Return of JET-vestment.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[43,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetaa-chapter-beat","category-jetaa-chapters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-64j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23336,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions\/23336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}