Fresh off the press, I’m happy to present the very first episode of the The JET Coaster Podcast.

As this is the first podcast, please excuse the fact that its definitely rough around the edges. I recorded this podcast in a bar using just my iPhone so there is a bit of background noise which I hope isn’t too distracting.

Anyways, this episode features my good friends Kevin, Fitz and Tim.

Kevin is a third year JET and get this..was actually my roomate in university(!). Getting into JET was a dream of ours and somehow we managed to make it happen and get placed within 50km of each other; closer than we live back home in Canada. We’ve been best friends for years and do a ton of stuff together.

Fitz is a 5th year outgoing JET and is an all around stand-up guy. 5th year JETs are known as unicorns for their rarity and delicious flavour, so its exciting to be able to pick his brain for insights about living in Japan for the full 5 years possible on The JET Programme.

Tim on the other hand, is a newly minted JET, also hailing from Toronto like Kevin and I. He came in with the special April arrivals which means he has been here for only a couple months, however when I actually recorded this podcast, he had only been in Japan for around a month. So for him, everything in Japan is still bright and new and shiny.

So in this episode, we kind of have a round table discussion talking about what our experiences have been like on JET thus far – with Fitz being a 5th year, me a 4th, Kev a 3rd, and Tim a new JET.

The Jet Coaster