what's up internet Dyce Quirk here and today is just a little bit different from usual
and that's because i am super excited to announce that me and my wife have finally been told
our placement for the JET program and so i told a couple of you guys in the comments on my other
videos that we will be giving you updates about us and the jet program and so this is kind of the
first big update in this video i'm going to tell you a little bit about how everything's gone in
the jet program so far because we're a 2020 JET and that has some things that it carries with it
then we're going to tell you a little bit about our location where it is and show you some stuff
about it then things that me and my wife were a little bit concerned about for our location as
well as a couple things that we are super excited about for our location and then at the end of the
video we'll have a couple extra bonuses for you guys so let's not waste time and let's get to it
so to start everything off i just want to say that for me and my wife our faith has been a
really big part of our lives and so when we first were applying for the jet program uh we knew that
we wanted to do missionary work over in japan and so we mentioned that inside of our paperwork and
ultimately they were totally fine with that it was awesome we got accepted into the program
but at the same time we applied in 2020 actually 2019 uh in october is when we got all of our
paperwork in and then we were accepted for the 2020 JET program but something really
big happened in 2020 that went completely viral if you get what i'm saying and that basically
led to the borders of japan being shut down and so even though we were accepted in 2020
and supposed to leave summer of 2020 we actually ended up being deferred to 2021 and so we finally
got our information about where we're getting placed uh they have not given us a departure
date yet other than we're going to be leaving sometime between september 11 and december 4th
and by the way when we get that information we'll make sure to share it with you guys
but we finally got our actual location and so we're super excited um because we've been waiting
almost two years now for this moment to be able to move and so it's just another like five months
and bam we should be over in japan so thank you guys so much for checking out our channel uh
this entire time that we've been waiting we've been building this channel and so we just
appreciate everything you've been doing to help us continue to build it up we're super excited about
sharing more content with you guys so that you can experience japan but now finally let's move
on to what a lot of you guys probably have come to this video for me and edythe have been placed in
Kami Miyagi yeah that's a place you've probably never heard of and that's perfectly fine Miyagi
prefecture is in northern japan and we've been placed inside of a smaller town within Miyagi
called kami and i just found this kind of interesting like i mentioned before we were super
interested in the missionary aspect of going over there and kami one of its translations just one
is god the kanji that they use to write out kami doesn't translate to god but it's still
something that we have some fun with and we enjoy uh but kami is a small town of about 22 000 people
and about 75 of the entire area that that town occupies is a forest preserve
so it's just surrounded by tons of nature and it actually has a pokemon that represents the
town and that is rosalia which i'm not a big fan of but the prefecture that we live in
actually has another pokemon that represents it and so we get like two we get our prefecture which
is kind of like a state and then we also get our towns pokemon okay so miyagi is represented by
lapras and i'm i'm a lot happier with that so we got roselia and lapras i also found this kind of
fun found out that kami has a town flower and the town flower is asian skunk cabbage
it actually looks pretty cool it's kind of a swamp flower and it's also known as a like flower
lantern i'll put a picture up so that you guys can see it i might be getting that name wrong but
it does look pretty cool and also me and edythe actually grew up in a swamp area so we're pretty
cool with that too that's just a nice little bonus now as far as some things that me and
edythe are concerned about or were concerned about when we first heard about our location first off
it's a little bit of a smaller town and so we were kind of worried that we might not be able to
experience as much being located there and another big concern we had was in the entire town of kami
there's not a single train station which has always been like kind of a secret little
dream i've had like to wake up in the morning for work and then go to the little train station and
wait for the train but you know it is what it is in addition to that because there's
no train station inside of kami there is one kind of close by but it's not close enough
and it doesn't go to all of the places i might need to travel to so we're gonna have to buy a
car and i've been learning a lot about cars over in japan as far as like the testing that has to
be done on them and how much they cost and we do have money saved up for japan but that is one cost
we were hoping that we didn't have to like put out so that's one little concern and also because the
town doesn't have any trains that go directly to it and it's also just a little bit isolated by all
of the like nature that surrounds it me and edythe were super excited about doing some exploring and
we know that because of its location it might be just slightly difficult to do that mainly because
of costs to take a bullet train to a big city or something would cost a lot of money or to travel
much further north might be easier but south like towards tokyo wouldn't be very cost effective for
us so that's one thing that we're a little bit concerned about yeah and probably our biggest
concern is we have done so much to make sure that we can bring our cats from america all the
way over to japan and because of that like they always recommend that you don't bring any animals
and yeah it doesn't look like it's going to be easy to find an apartment in japan first off
as a foreigner and then second off it allows us to bring animals especially cats because they scratch
things up so yeah that's definitely something that we're not looking forward to but we're going to
try as hard as we can and if we do get the cats over there we'll probably make another video
going through everything that plays into that like bringing an animal or pet over to japan
so far it's cost us over a thousand dollars and we haven't even bought the tickets yet so it's
a big process but we'll help you out with that if we can that is if we're successful and so here's
a couple things that we are exceptionally excited for first off like i said before about 75 percent
of the entire town of kami is a forest preserve so we are just surrounded by nature and in fact
supposedly one of the three most beautiful places in all of japan is within a short car ride from us
and we're we're just really excited uh for that aspect because me and edythe we've seen a lot
of the cities in japan we've been all through southern japan and we've seen just like the city
side of everything so seeing the natural beauty in japan and seeing the geographical beauty in japan
that that's something that we are really looking forward to in addition we actually live pretty
close to sendai which is a big city in japan that doesn't get as much attention from tourists
as like tokyo kyoto osaka fukuoka and because of that it's just a really cool place for us to be
able to experience and also not to be too bogged down by a lot of tourism as well as the fact
that sendai uh has a daimyo that it's famous for like housing and uh being the birthplace of which
is he's known as the one-eyed dragon super cool dude i might make a video about him sometime but
in addition to those things uh we're also really excited because kami actually has some pretty good
climate it has a really good temperature it's not super hot it usually has an average annual
temperature of around 11.4 degrees celsius so that's 52.52 degrees fahrenheit it's a little
bit on the chilly side but in addition uh it has a high in august of around 76.28 degrees fahrenheit
or 24.6 degrees celsius so that is pretty good for me i am somebody that just dies in heat
so i i like a little bit lower and in addition uh at its lowest usually in january it usually hits
only about negative 0.8 degrees celsius or 30.56 degrees fahrenheit and so we come from an area
where you can get like negative 50 degree wind chill so this is really good this is a really good
step forward for us in addition me and my wife are pretty excited because with kami being a smaller
town it means that we're probably going to be able to grow closer to people within the town we want
to have a really natural experience where we get to kind of see what the natives see uh get a more
this is what small town japan feels like i don't really know how to describe it but we feel like
there's a lot of things that you can miss out on if you're living inside of a big city in japan
in addition to that we're also excited because if it's a smaller town they probably have less people
that speak english and so we're hoping to grow in our language ability as we have to use it more
and we're also just excited because we've been waiting for like two years to do this move and a
lot of things have happened i know a lot of things have happened for a lot of people in this last two
years and so it's been a little bit rough at times but at the same time we're finally hitting this
new chapter in our life and so we're excited to walk into that new chapter and also to share it
with you guys as we continue to give updates and we continue to put out videos about japan
and so uh with the channel we actually have a goal that we're coming close to and if you guys have
seen my daughter my video you'll know that this is a dharma and what you do is when you set a goal
you fill in one eye and then once you've completed the goal you fill in the other eye
and then after you've filled in the other eye you either have the guy burned or you keep it and you
keep on collecting them and setting more goals and so we're taking a vote on our channel as to
whether or not we're going to collect these guys and keep on setting goals maybe we'll
write like what the goal was on the top of them or something or we're going to burn them all and so
make sure you let me know in the comments if we're gonna burn this guy or if we're gonna keep them
and also uh like i mentioned in this video already we're gonna continue to give updates about our
experience with the jet program as well as uh just information as it comes like when we're leaving
and everything else so make sure you stick around for those and let me know if there's anything
else you're curious about the jet program like if you have any questions about it or anything
like that i still do do reviews for people's sops and everything so you can leave those in
the comments and we also have something special that we want to share with you so check this out
spent all your time waiting for that second chance for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason to feel not good enough and it's hard at the end of the day
i need some distraction oh beautiful release memory seeps from my fate let me be empty
oh wait waitlist said baby i'll find some peace tonight
hello my name is timothy fordyce and i'm here to ask you will you be an angel
for one of these poor helpless creatures because we sure can we're broke in fact the transmission
on one of our cars just went out and so now we owe thirty five hundred dollars to get that fixed
and the car we're currently driving has no power steering bald tires and a screw in the back tire
not to mention i owe 1400 to the hospital because i didn't eat my vegetables
but it's okay if you can't support one of these poor little animals today
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don't worry they're used to starving in fact most nights i wake up with them biting my leg
speaking of starving all i got to eat is celery turns out there was a big sale at
the supermarket and so i spent the last of my personal savings on 30 pounds of celery
wasn't until afterward that i realized with every stick of celery that i eat i actually
lose more calories than i gain
i'm slowly starving myself i'm always so hungry
why did i just buy celery there were other things on sale why did i buy things that make me hungrier
but this video is not about me it's about the cats it's about the cats so if you
think that you can be an angel to one of these poor little guys like cairo here
remember to leave a like or subscribe as for me
i got my celery you want that too you've already taken all the other food
some comfort here
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