{"id":38956,"date":"2016-01-06T21:51:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T01:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=38956"},"modified":"2016-01-07T01:31:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:31:26","slug":"jetaa-chapter-beat-january-7th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/06\/jetaa-chapter-beat-january-7th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"JETAA Chapter Beat- January 7th, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashlie O\u2019Neill (Hyogo-Ken, 2013-Present) AJET National Council <\/a>Director of Alumni Relations<\/strong><\/em>. Ashlie is in her second year on the AJET National Council<\/a> as the Director of Alumni Relations. She works alongside Ryan Hata (National AJET Director of Alumni Resources ) and members of JETAA to strengthen the relationship between former JETs, current JETs and Japan. Please feel free to contact her email at ashlie.oneill@ajet.net or her<\/em> <\/i>Linkedin<\/i><\/a> profile. Ashlie helps to keep you up up to date with JETAA happenings around the world.<\/i><\/p>\n

Welcome to the very first chapter beat for 2016 and a big Happy New Year to everyone around the world.
\nLet\u2019s see what JETAA has coming up in January.
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

1. JETAA Rocky Mountains<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Monthly\u00a0Board\u00a0Meeting\u00a0and\u00a0Second\u00a0Sunday\u00a0Social\u00a0Meetup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

When: Sunday January 10th, 12-4pm<\/strong>
\nWhere: Coffee at The Point, 710 E 26th Ave, Denver, Colorado 80205<\/strong><\/p>\n

JETAA Rocky Mountains will host their monthly board meeting and Second Sunday meetup this Sunday, January 10th.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any interested JET alums are invited to join the board meeting from 12-2pm. Then from 2-4pm, kick back and relax, reminisce about teaching, living in Japan, practice Japanese, or just catch up with friends.<\/p>\n

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2. JETAA Northern California<\/a><\/strong>
\n
\n<\/a><\/span>SF Networking Nomikai<\/a><\/p>\n

When: Thursday January 7th, 5:30-7:30pm (PST)
\nWhere:\u00a0 Crystal Jade San Francisco.
\n<\/span>4 Embarcadero Ctr, Ste e, Lbby Level San Francisco, California<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join alumni and friends at our San Francisco Networking Nomikai (happy hour)! Ring in the new Year of the Monkey together!<\/p>\n

Come out, make new friends, and catch up with old ones. This is a great chance for networking.<\/p>\n

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3. Heartland JETAA<\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Heartland JETAA January Meeting <\/a><\/p>\n

When: Thursday January 14th, 6:30pm (CST)
\nWhere:\u00a0 <\/span>Blackdog Coffee House
\n<\/span>12815 W 87th St, Lenexa Kansas 66215<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join Heartland JETAA at their January meeting to discuss upcoming events,ask questions and share ideas.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

4. Florida JETAA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Annual Shinnenkai<\/a><\/p>\n

When: Sunday January 24th, 6-8pm (EST)<\/strong>
\n Where:Michael Maloney’s House in Tampa (email<\/a> for RSVP and directions)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join Florida JETAA for their Annual Shinnenkai celebrating the start of 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

5. JETAA Washington DC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Networking Happy Hour<\/a><\/p>\n

When: Tuesday January 12th, 5-7pm<\/strong>
\n Where: Laughing Man Tavern, 1306 G St.NW<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join members of JETAADC at their first networking event of 2016. For those interested, there will be trivia starting at 7pm<\/span><\/span> and JETAADC are planning on forming a JETAADC team (or 2 depending on numbers)!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

6. JETAA Midlands<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Japanese Lessons<\/a><\/p>\n

When: Throughout January 21st to February 25th<\/strong>
\n Where: Birmingham’s MAC Arts Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

This January, JETAA Midlands are hosting tailored Japanese lessons every Thursday evening from January 21st to February 25th at , mac Birmingham in Cannon Hill Park.<\/p>\n

Lessons will be with other ex-JETs enthusiastic about learning Japanese again. The class size will be small at 8 students which will allow you the teaching time you need to get started learning Japanese again or get help to improve weaker areas and take your Japanese ability to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashlie O\u2019Neill (Hyogo-Ken, 2013-Present) AJET National Council Director of Alumni Relations. Ashlie is in her second year on the AJET National Council as the Director of Alumni Relations. She works alongside Ryan Hata (National AJET Director of Alumni Resources ) and members of JETAA to strengthen the relationship between former JETs, current JETs and Japan. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetaa-chapter-beat","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-a8k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38956","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38956"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38973,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38956\/revisions\/38973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}