Disclaimer: Very personal post ahead (e.g. stream of consciousness). Hello everyone, in my last article I was on the plane, heading “home”, where my family and my friends were waiting for me. Now I am still on a plane, heading again towards a “home”, on the other side of the planet. Update: for my city […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Back to My New LifeLike in Secreted Revealed: I’m Gonna Live In Japan, I am again on the plane, this time heading towards home (but, where is home now?). I will miss Japan during this short amount of time, and I must admit I felt relieved when I filled the re-entry document at the airport. Being able to enjoy […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Summer Festivals and Birthday PartiesOne of the best things happening when you live in a foreign country is that you are not stressed by your settled traveling time, schedules, and that you can just live. You can have routines, enjoy daily little things. This is what I wanted when I decided to come here, to live and “get bored” […]
Read More Living Tokyo – My First Tea Ceremony, Tanabata, and KabukiThe weekend has arrived. And Monday will be holiday as well, the so called “Day of the sea” (海の日, umi no hi). I am lucky because I just finished my first week of school + work + study and I really need time to relax. Some of you will remember my first post on this […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Working in Japan Part TwoIn my last article, Latest News from the Big City, I told you about my school’s results, scholarship, and networking experiences. I was also sick at home, trying not to get too much crazy. In the following days, so many things happened, let’s discover them! Inside Japan – Virtual Tours! First, I released a video […]
Read More Living Tokyo – My (Stra)ordinary Japanese LifeHey everybody! Have you already seen the latest video on my YouTube channel? It is about my first three months at the Japanese language school. At that time courses were not that difficult, we could relax a bit and make jokes… Sometimes me and my former classmates miss that period, but going further and gain […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Latest News from the Big CityHi guys, missed me? From my last article about the KPOP industry, I had the chance to listen to many new songs that are becoming the soundtrack of this moment of my life. Does this occur also to you? Anyway, let’s see what happened in the last two weeks… Discovering new places and events There […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Apparent Calm Before the Storm“Mum I will become crazy, do you know that?” “Why?” “Because I am going to study in Shin-Okubo, the Korean town.” This is how I introduced my Japanese language school to my mother. During my first trip to Japan, my Airbnb was located in this lively and amazing Tokyo’s neighborhood. It is called “Korean town” […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Shin-Okubo and the KPOP IndustryHey there, what’s up? Hope everything is fine. Four months have already passed since I left my country, I saw my parents come and then go, I began a new difficult level at school… needless to say that in the past few weeks I had my first “sad moments”! But don’t worry, now they are […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Gold and Silver WeeksHi everybody! As already stated on my social media channels, I passed all the exams at school and I am now attending the next level. And it’s not over yet: My parents came to visit me! I couldn’t help but organizing a super (unusual) trip for them. We explored a part of the country completely […]
Read More Living Tokyo – Okinawa and Kyushu with My Parents!
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