Bright Life! Bright Life!
If you're like me, you may have thought that being veggie in Japan would be easy. They eat TOFU right? Right… Well, this expectation was already questioned before I moved to Japan. In my pre-move research I found a barrage of blogs talking about how hard it is to eat green in the Land of [...]
Hello. My name is Jessica. I am from the UK. I studied English at Lancaster University. I look forward to working with you. Bow. Giphy The importance of this little paragraph has recurred since pre-flight orientation and since I'm starting teaching at 9 different schools, it's going to be said a lot! After saying goodbye [...]
In my last post I told you all about my exciting and exhausting application to get onto the JET programme. Since that post I received my result… Giphy … and I got accepted! Giphy After taking some time to let it all sink in, I realised that this means that in less than three months [...]
At the latter end of 2017, I applied for the pretty ambitious position of an Assistant Language Teacher on the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Programme, or JET for short. After hearing about it in my 1st year of uni, it had always been in the back of my mind as an option for when I [...]
After an unbelievably big gap since my last post, due to the generic stress of being a 3rd year student, I decided that now’s the best time to write. So I'm writing about something that’s been pretty relevant to me, and I’m sure many of you, recently and that is handling pressure. As stress was [...]
The path heading down to the canal was shadowed by a canopy of trees and as I walked downhill it felt like everything was in HD. Bird calls were sharper, the fragrant smell of the waterside plants was stronger, ducks were chillin’ out on the canal and everything just felt better. I wasn’t under the [...]
Hey guys, Due to exams and an unbelievably stressful house move, I haven’t been able to write for a while. After moving chairs, couches, tables, pans, books and every other tiny thing that you completely take for granted until you're dragging it to and from your car, as well as spending over a week without my [...]
Hey guys! As you’ll have guessed from the title, this post is going to talk about my recent trip to Lancaster. While it seemed like a pretty ordinary trip, taken many times in my commute to uni, it ended up having a really big impact on my perspective of quite a few things, the main [...]
Over the last few months, I’ve started to notice a pretty melancholic trend amongst our millennial generation. This won’t come as a shock to you, as all the ‘I’m dead inside’ memes have been circulating for a while now. But, as I've been meeting more people recently, I've began to notice it more and more. [...]
Hey guys, I thought that it might be pretty cool, at this infantile stage of Yōkina Living, to explain why I actually chose to focus on positivity and cheerful living. To do this, it seems like a good place to start by explaining what cheerfulness means to me as, although it might seem pretty obvious, it [...]
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