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November Highlights

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019Caroleadventure, alt, birthday, japan, JET, kumamoto, kyushu, november, travelLeave a comment

I’m partially lazy and partially prefer this method of highlighting things that happened in November. This month went by SO fast! It’s so much cooler outside and it’s harder to get up in the morning because my bed is so warm and
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JET

Kumamoto Roadtrip

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019CaroleLeave a comment

November 3-4 was a long weekend and the holiday was Culture Day so, Tori and I decided to become more cultured and visit Kumamoto which is on the other side of Kyushu. Enjoy!

JET

October Lessons Learned

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019Caroleconfidence, learn, learning, lesson, october, reflectionLeave a comment

October has come and gone so quickly! My theme for my lessons learned this month is “Be more confident”. I think being more confident opens up many opportunities that you might otherwise miss. For a long time I’ve had a hard time
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JET

This is an honest reflection: read at your own discretion

October 16, 2019October 16, 2019Caroleadult, honest, japan, lifestyle, living, reflection, solo, travelLeave a comment

I lived nearly all of my 23 years at home. I say nearly because I am still 22 and not yet 23 but I don’t like saying I lived at home for 22 years and 5 months or whatever because that’s the
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Exploring Kyushu: Hiking Aso-Kuju National Park

October 16, 2019October 16, 2019Caroleactivity, adventure, autumn, beautiful, friends, hiking, japan, kyushu, national park, nature, oita, outdoor activity, travel1 Comment

October 13th, 2019 Autumn is my favourite season. Less bugs, cooler weather, winter is coming. It’s a time for hiking, camping, climbing, eating pumpkin pie and picking apples. The trees evolve from emerald green to beautiful shades of crimson, copper and gold.
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Exploring Kyushu: Harajiri falls and Oka Castle

October 16, 2019October 16, 2019Caroleadventure, beautiful, castle, daytrip, history, japan, kyushu, nature, oita, roadtrip, travel, waterfallLeave a comment

Sunday, September 15th 2019 I’m writing this post with a month’s retrospect so the details may be a bit hazy or re-fabricated thanks to the wonders of the human brain. Monday, September 16th was Respect for the Elderly Day, thus a holiday
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Let’s Celebrate: Festivals!

October 5, 2019October 6, 2019Carolefestival, japan, summer, travelLeave a comment

It keeps raining here. Like typhoon rain heavy rain. Is this normal for this time of the year? No. Let’s all please ask it to stop raining. Thanks. Toronto isn’t the only place with lots of cool weekend events and festivals. The
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Seattle

Today I Moved Out West

September 20, 2019September 20, 2019Nikola AndrejevicLeave a comment

“While reading through Carole’s posts about her move to Japan, I thought it would be cool to document my own journey as I make the move out west to Seattle to start my new software engineering job at Google. This is my
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JET

It’s been over a month and I still don’t know how to navigate the grocery store

September 8, 2019September 8, 2019Caroleadulting, japan, JET, learned, not learned, sololiving, travel1 Comment

Hello friends! It’s been over a week since my last blog post and over a month now since I landed here in Japan and began calling it home. I believe that this occasion deserves it’s own blogpost where I can discuss some
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JET

TA Advice – applicable to many other scenarios in life

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019Caroleadvice, assistant, experience, life, lifestyle, mentor, mentorship, prepare, respect, school, schoollife, student, teacher, thoughts2 Comments

Here are some thought and bits of advice towards being a TA in university. This may seem to be pretty random to put as a JET blog post, but I believe it has insight that can be applicable to many other scenarios
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