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…
Happy 2016! It’s been a while since I last updated on my life in Nagoya. After my semester ended I spent about a week and a half in Hong Kong. It was nice seeing all the festive cheer in HK during the holiday season. It definitely felt more like Christmas there than it did in Nagoya. The only downside was that Christmas Day landed on the 15th of the Lunar Calendar, which meant my grandma ate vegetarian the entire day….