Purpose

(La version française de cet article se trouve ici)

I've been given an amazing opportunity to learn more about pedagogy, internationalization,language, cultural identity, different school systems, curriculums and myself (!) with a job that involves teaching English to Japanese high school students.

This blog's purpose is to share my observations with anyone who is interested in the aforementioned subjects and, hopefully, get your take on them. I'd like input from other JETs that are doing similar (or completely different) observations and from people back in Canada who want to discuss the similarities and differences of the school systems and cultures.
Please, don't hesitate to leave comments and give your point of view so we have a discussion going.

I also plan, in the next week, to do the same blog in French. I think I'll sometimes translate my posts from English to French and sometimes it'll be the other way around. (Hopefully, some day, I can also do it in Japanese! Maybe next year.) I'm guessing the writing style should be quite different whether the original post was in English or a translation from French. In either case, I definitely won't win any Pulitzer.

I think it's time to get blogging. It's already October and I have yet to start writing about everything that happened since August when the JET journey began in Tokyo...