This past weekend I was really lucky to be invited to my friend Megumi’s wedding. It was my first time attending a Japanese style wedding so I really didn’t know what to expect. I bought a new dress for the event and borrowed some accessories from a friend since I left most of my stuff back home in Canada. Then I had to research the gift giving procedures in Japan. In Japan it isn’t common for couples to have a…
Lately I’ve been pretty lazy blogging-wise, but since I was writing about first experiences in my last post, I thought I would add a consecutive post about my first time working in Japan. After coming back from my trip to Korea and Kansai Japan, I pretty much threw all my time and effort into my job search. Ideally I was hoping to find one job where I could use English primarily and one where I could use Japanese. I was…
I know it’s a little mundane to be blogging about a visit to the dentist, but it was a bit of a hurdle for me visiting a medical practitioner for the first time in Japan. To start, I went to the Nagoya International Centre to get recommendations for English-speaking dentists in the area. The lady gave me a few options close to Mei-eki, but she said that with my level of Japanese, I was probably fine visiting a Japanese-speaking dentist…
After coming back from Korea, our next day was our day trip to USJ. I’ve only been to Tokyo Disney Sea before, so this was my second time visiting a theme park in Japan. I think the only thing I remembered from Disney Sea was the insane amount of time I spent waiting in line. I set my expectations lower this time and only planned to visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to go on one ride – Harry…
For our last full day in Korea, we started the morning off at the National Museum of Korea. The permanent exhibition is open to the public free of charge and consists of three floors. It took us the better part of the morning to go through the first and second floor. We decided to break up the visit by having lunch at their food court before going to the third floor. (Side note: There’s actually a lot of options at…