This Monday’s JETAA trivia night was a great success. From what I saw, everyone enjoyed themselves and with a three-way tie for first there really wasn’t anything in it. Thank you to the Trivia sub committee for running the event and thank you to everyone attended.
JETAA also raised nearly $200 of the JETAA International Charity Room to Read.
Next Meeting – This Sunday!
Candle Festival 2009
Funding to promote JET
Softball – updated practice times
O-Shaberikai
Japanese Language Speech Competition – finals tomorrow
News from Japan
Next Meeting – this Sunday!
The details for the next JETAA meeting are:
Date: Sunday, 20 September 2009
Time: 3.00 pm
Place: The Presidential Palace, Ainslie
This meeting will be very important as it falls just before Candle Festival. Please do attend if you can. JETAA will provide snacks and refreshments.
For more information, please contact Murray at:
woodford_murray@yahoo.com.au
Candle Festival 2009
The Canberra Nara Candle Festival will take place on Saturday, 26 September 2009 from 3pm to 9pm in the Canberra Nara Park.
JETAA will participate for the fifth consecutive year, and like in previous years, will run a gyoza and beer stall.
We are looking for a group of eager volunteers to assist with pre-event preparations (ordering) and on-the-day preparations (such as cooking, selling, setting-up and packing-up). If you are able to help in any way, we would love to have you on board.
For more information please contact Christie at:
christie.harvey@gmail.com
Information on the festival can be found at:
http://www.events.act.gov.au/?/event/view/26
Thank you.
Funding to promote JET
CLAIR has advised that they have some additional funding to support any projects to promote the JET Programme to try to encourage more people to apply to participate in JET.
The Committee is already working closely with CLAIR on this project, but new ideas are always welcome.
If you have any great ideas to encourage more people to apply for JET please contact Murray at:
woodford_murray@yahoo.com.au
Softball – Updated practice times
The annual Australia-Japan softball competition will be held ths year on Saturday, 17 October 2009.
As in previous years, the JETAA/CJC/AJS team will hold practice sessions at Yarralumla Neighbourhood Oval the practice session will be as follows:
13/Sep: Sun 1-3pm
19/Sep: Sat 1-3pm
27/Sep: Sun 1-3pm
3/Oct: Sat 1-3 pm
10/Oct: Sat 1-3 pm
For further details please contact the skipper at:
tsuyoshi.iizuka@anu.edu.au
All levels of player are welcome to participate.
O-Shaberikai
The next O-Shaberikai will be held on Wednesday, 7 October 2009 at the Holy Grail in Civic from 5.30pm onwards. Please do come along if you can.
For those who don’t know, the O-Shaberikai is a very informal monthly get-together where Japanese people staying in Canberra can meet Australians who have some interest in Japan. As it is informal, you’re not bound by time constraints so turning up late or leaving early is not a problem at all.
Japanese Language Speech Competition
ACT finals will be held on Saturday, 19 September 2009.
For more details contact Ms Jan Hutchinson at the Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of ACT on: (02) 62026407 or at:
janhutchison@mcc.act.edu.au
The national final contest will be held on Saturday, 10 October 2009 in Sydney.
News from Japan
As Yukio Hatoyama takes office Tokyo police launch anti-groping week:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/17/2688355.htm
Have a great week,
Murray
JETAA President
JETAA website – http://jetaacanberra.wordpress.com/
JETAA Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14590734021