{"id":3749,"date":"2009-02-23T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2009-02-23T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T20:18:33","slug":"jetaa-florida-gets-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/23\/jetaa-florida-gets-a-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"JETAA Florida Gets a New President"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/em>JETAA Florida<\/a> <\/strong>has elected Tom Gregorich (Tokushima-ken, 2001-03)<\/strong> to be its new chapter President.\u00a0 He has been the regional coordinator for the Orlando area for a couple years now and regularly travels to JETAA events around the Sunshine State.\u00a0 Here’s a snippet from Tom’s platform:<\/p>\n

I was a JET from 2001-2003 in Tokushima-ken on the beautiful island of Shikoku.\u00a0 I went to Japan speaking no Japanese, and with little previous knowledge of the country, but I left three and a half years later (I stayed a bit longer after my time with JET was finished up) a permanent Japanophile.\u00a0 Now that I am living in Florida I am constantly on the look out for Japan related groups and activities.\u00a0 My goal for JETAA is to create a community built upon this shared enthusiasm for Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tom says he would like to set up a monthly group to get together to speak Japanese and practice.\u00a0 He also mentions that for the past year fellow alum John McGee has had a monthly tsudoi<\/em>, which is a little get together at Panera bread to meet and discuss ideas for JETAA over coffee and suggests continuing this tradition, with perhaps the location alternating between Orlando and Tampa, and possible Miami as well.<\/p>\n

JetWit says welcome, Tom!\u00a0 And ganbatte kudasai<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JETAA Florida has elected Tom Gregorich (Tokushima-ken, 2001-03) to be its new chapter President.\u00a0 He has been the regional coordinator for the Orlando area for a couple years now and regularly travels to JETAA events around the Sunshine State.\u00a0 Here’s a snippet from Tom’s platform: I was a JET from 2001-2003 in Tokushima-ken on the […]<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetaa-chapters"],"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