L U C K Y ☆ S T A R

So a friend was wondering how my daily life has been since starting work.

Well to start, my work schedule is from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. This is pretty nice considering my previous job was between 7:30 am and 6:00 pm. I live about a 5-min bicycle ride to my school so I don't need to wake up that early either. I also don't need to put on much makeup since none of the teachers at school wear anything on their face.

After almost a week training with Interac in Chiba, I was finally going to move into my new home in Showa, Yamanashi. During training, I swear everyone I met in my Koushinetsu Branch (Toyama, Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi) were located everywhere else, but Yamanashi. I was beginning to think I was the only person going to be placed in this prefecture. On the last day of training, when we received more information of our journey to our new homes, I met Christine who was also based in Showa. I was ecstatic! I immediately befriended her. She had lived in Japan for 5-years before. It was reassuring to have someone nearby with prior experience.

The most asked question: Why did I move to Japan? 

Since high school, it has always been my dream of mine to live in Japan. Being a descendant of Japan, I've always been interested in the Japanese culture, food, history, etc. I always loved traveling to Japan, it was always my favorite vacation destination.

Wow, it's been a month since I took the biggest step in my life: moving to Japan.

I have transitioned into my new lifestyle quite smoothly. I have been fortunate to have family kind enough to help me settle in. If it wasn't for them and some friends I moved to Japan with then I wouldn't be transitioning so well. It is important to learn as much as possible about a country's culture before moving there. This will help with not having an extreme cultural shock. Japan is everything I have ever imagined it to be, almost...

To my past, present, and future readers;
I am finally going to start blogging again! It’s been a long time coming, but what better way to start new than now. Please bear with me though - I've been very indecisive with which blogging platform to use. I think I am going to settle with keeping my Blogspot because there are more free theme templates than Wordpress.