JETs are Nerds

All of them. Some more so than others, but everyone’s got a little nerd in them. Almost every plays videogames (not casually), and the ones that don’t are nerdy in other ways. Some play Dungeons & Dragons every weekend, some are obsessed with anime and manga, and others love electronics. I knew I was in nerd land when I started talking Final Fantasy music with the guy who (beforehand) seemed like he was too cool to be on this program. And I really knew I was in nerd land when the guy who made his own suit of chainmail asked a group of us if we knew what the design of the chainmail was based off of, and the girl, who had previously shown no obvious signs of excessive nerdiness, yelled out “white mage!” (from Final Fantasy). Who else would come to Japan, right?