Bright Life! Bright Life!
Most events in your life would be made better with the perfect song. Those crucial seconds that your wrapper spends flying towards the bin- 'Ride of the Valkyries'. Balancing your week-long stash of plates and cups out of your room- 'Eye of the Tiger'. You put on some mascara and finally washed your hair- 'No [...]
Somewhere, nestled in the vast forests of Kumamoto stands the largest stone staircase in all of Japan. After wandering the land for months, I’m glad to say I discovered these 3,333 steps and can now reveal to you its secrets. Ok, so I Google Maps’d it after a friend told me about it, but that [...]
After raking in 37, 896 steps wandering Fukuoka the day before, I decided to give myself a chilled morning, lying in and appreciating how comfy my hostel bunk was. Next, I had a shower and took my time getting ready, came down for breakfast and ate it with an ENGLISH BREW. Completely based, I sat [...]
This weekend, my last 3 day weekend for a while, I decided to hit the road with my lifelong companion, Winnie, to Fukuoka. Fukuoka is a 3 hour bus journey north of me, in the next prefecture (at the top of Kyushu). Fukuoka is well known for the shopping utopia (or dystopia if the thought [...]
Image from Solotravelerworld 'Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps...' I’d say even before coming to Japan I had an affinity for new experiences. Even if the experience was driving around my hometown at 4am (which ended up creating some of my best memories) I was down. My attraction to new experiences led me [...]
It’s the end of September and I’m reaching the milestone of 2 months in Japan. Every year, around this time, I get the strongest urge to write. I guess it’s the colder nights that make me want to cosy up and type away my next article or blog post. It would seem that even moving [...]
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 [...]
My orientation was on 20th July, around 2 weeks before I fly to Japan. I’d recently begun to feel pretty nervous about the whole thing and so was looking forward to the orientation, hoping that the information would put my mind at ease. The orientation was held in London, so I decided to travel down [...]
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 [...]
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