Speaker 1
Yeah. So like it really depends on the vibe of your school and your program and your particular advisor, how much help you might get. So it's really good to prepare yourself to be quite independent. And also, I think I haven't done JET, but I've heard that sometimes in some regions they get like apartments found for them or something or like they inherit places to live from other JET alumni or something, something like that. That happened with me where we were in subsidized housing and the person who'd left before me, she'd left some of her stuff and I was able to like move in pretty easily and she gave me, you know, the the lowdown on the apartment and the quirks and all that. So yeah, it's nice to have them, the, you know, BOE, Organized Board of Education, Organizing It For Me, and I didn't have to worry when I got there, like, oh, where am I going to stay? You already had the apartment all set up. But yeah, it definitely depends on where you are and your board of education and that sort of thing on the JET program because I know like for, I think the Tokyo Jets, a lot of them had to find housing when they got there. So yeah, it just depends. Yeah, for sure. I found that at least in Nabria with the max scholars that I knew, we were all kind of like out on our own, kind of like a good luck buddy, figure it out. So I mean, we did. We were forced to figure it out, which is definitely like, again, a big growing experience that will definitely make you a stronger, more independent person. So yeah, that's good stuff. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure JET's a very big growing experience too. I don't think I could teach children. So yeah, I don't think I can do that either. That's true. Yeah, just like more particularly, I especially recommend applying to mixed if you meet certain conditions. So if you want to live in Japan but don't want to teach English, which was me, if you're like financially stable enough to live off of like kind of a smallish to moderate stipend every month, again, the people I knew who had like previous debt or like other outstanding circumstances definitely had a harder time than I did.