Appointment to JEN Jordan

Hello everyone! My name is Miyahara, and I just began working in Jordan from this week. This is my first time to work outside of Japan for JEN, and for this blog, I would like to talk about some of the preparation and the move to Jordan that I experienced this time.

There were so many things to prepare until departure. Since it is an overseas move, packing, preparing your passport, and getting vaccinations are self-explanatory. But these were not the only ones. I was overwhelmed with the amount of administrative procedures I needed to take such as, removing certificate of residence in Japan, contacting various companies and authorities of change of address, terminating cell phone contract, and renewing driver’s license. The list goes on…

Vaccinations: Hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rabies, tetanus, typhoid fever. I packed four boxes and sent them via EMS.
My last day at the Tokyo HQ. Ms Kiyama, our Co-President greeted me for my departure.

The departure day came so quickly. Travel including transfer and passport control went very smoothly and I arrived in one piece in Amman, Jordan’s capital. I arrived on Friday, which is the day of prayer for Islam. As I was traveling by car in Amman, we passed by a mosque. As we got nearer to the mosque, we found so many cars being parked randomly on the street, eventually blocking the street and trapping us between parked cars. The driver was a bit frustrated and exclaimed “It is fine that they come to the mosque to pray, but they cannot park their cars in the middle of the street!”.

Now that I am safely arrived in Amman, job handover will start. I hope that I can have a smooth and quick take-off to my new job, and focus my energy into working for the Syrian refugees and the Jordanian people.

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JEN will be there for the most vulnerable households to keep providing the support they need.

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