The Hokkaido Association for Japan Exchange and Teaching
Archive for January, 2009
Last Call for HAJET PC Nominations!
Jan 18th
Hello everyone,
Thank you very much for your nominations throughout the last month and a half! The nominations period for the HAJET PC Elections is closing this Sunday night, so if you have any last minute nominations, send them in. If you want to nominate yourself, feel free to do so as well. The HAJET Elections website is always available at http://www.elections.hajet.org/ if you want information on any of the positions. Of course, I’m available to answer your questions as well. The HAJET Elections email is hajet.elections @ gmail.com.
As for those who I have contacted about nominations, but haven’t replied back to me yet, please do so as soon as you can. Your candidacy is not confirmed until you accept your nomination, and you do that by sending me a reply to my email. If you’re busy, just send me a one word “Yes”/”No” email and I’ll be happy with that as well.
Thanks again!
Thomas
(in Bifuka)
Hokkaido PA Update
Jan 18th
We now sit just weeks out from the ‘famous-even-in-the-world’ Sapporo Snow Festival and carving and compacting is well underway for the giant structures that will dominate the park throughout the first weeks of February. First-years will hopefully be excited to come along and see what it’s all about, but in this land of snow and ice, Sapporo is certainly not the only city to be rising to the cold construction challenge.
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HAJET Elections Update
Jan 5th
Hi everyone, it’s Thomas with HAJET Elections. Thanks very much to many of you who have been nominating people for positions, and thank you to those who have accepted their nominations as well. We’re coming close to the end of the nomination period, but keep those nominations coming in! Right now, we still need nominations for Eastern Rep, so please nominate someone from that area! We also need a Secretary as well. But that doesn’t mean the other positions are taken already! We have some unconfirmed nominations for other positions, and they will free up again if people decline their nominations.
Please remember that HAJET is a very good cause, and really doesn’t take as much time as some might believe. HAJET is consistently one of the most well-run chapters of AJET, and while some might think HAJET bears an uncanny resemblance to high school student councils, well, your student council probably didn’t have to organize three seasonal meetings in different parts of Hokkaido, help out at the Sapporo Orientation, organize region-based welcome parties for newcomers, put an annual musical together, assist Project Outreach, organize Yuki Matsuri tours, compile a monthly newsletter, as well as running a little program called the Hokkaido English Challenge. And the list goes on.
So how can all this not vacuum all your free time up? Because the work is delegated across the group, and we want more people to help out by joining the HAJET PC (Prefectural Council). So yes, keep those nominations coming in. To those who have declined their nominations but want to change their mind, you are always welcome back! And to the people who have received an email about their nomination but haven’t replied back to me yet, please do so as soon as you can.
Thanks!
Thomas
(in Bifuka)
(in Bifuka)
