Bright Life! Bright Life!
Hello, my little lightbulbs! A very belated happy new year! I hope that the dawning of this new year is treating you well and if it hasn't, at least you're getting the bad bits out of the way early. I started this new year quite differently than others. I welcomed it in with loved ones, [...]
2020 has been a difficult one; quite sh*** if we're being honest. It was stressful and isolating for many people. That said there were some ups and downs outside of COVID-19, even if they were in some way influenced by it and now that were nuzzling into 2021 I want to look back! LIST 52/52: [...]
When someone asks you to lists your accomplishments it's hard not to jump straight into 'job interview mode' and start talking about how your time on the Duke of Edinburgh in year 9 really enhanced your people skills and helped you become a leader who also values teamwork. I got around this by instead asking [...]
This is such an important list. It's one that I've made a few times before, which I hope to make more of in the future. It's so easy to forget how much we have in life to be grateful for and how to truly appreciate those things. Writing this list is one way to correct [...]
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 [...]
This Christmas break, despite that old familiar nagging guilt that comes with not doing enough work, was a holiday of firsts. I had my first Christmas with my bestie, first Christmas tree with tinsel (banned from my mum’s for being 'tacky') and my first official date. Now I’m not going into mega deets, but it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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