“Don’t waste your valuable energy and time on worry, drama, jealousy, anger and negativity. Use your energy for belief Belief in yourself Belief that there are many out there just like you who are striving everyday to make the world a better place. Belief that inside everyone there exists the light, and desire to be […]
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Today is my 18th birthday, and today I am sitting in a small apartment building, cluttered with personality, in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. A home of two very fat cats, a small dog, lovely mother and daughter, 7,162km (4,450 miles) away from home. I never would of imagined that on this day I would […]
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As a 17 year old, lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my future and what I want to do and within this process I’ve had a lot of time to examine others. Lately I’ve noticed a trait in people who aren’t living their best lives all because they were constantly making choices based on […]
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From many people I’ve heard that the first three months of exchange abroad will always be the hardest, and well frankly thats true, but Im here to tell you what not to do to make the first 5 months the hardest. I think (for many reasons) so far this exchange as been really challenging, not […]
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Having trouble trying to figure out what to get your new Japanese host family? Not to worry! It doesn’t have to be that much and it doesn’t have to be expensive at all! The one thing to remember is to get items that represent your country! Now I come from Australia so of course the presents […]
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What is the main reason you should learn a new language? Why do the majority feel like learning a language is unnecessarily difficult and unnecessary for their future? The main reason you should learn a new language is to better yourself and everyone around you. No joke. I can tell you right now just from my short […]
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Hi! Welcome to my first blog post about my Japanese High School exchange experience and living abroad for a year in Japan! Just to make you aware, here I will be talking about the struggles, the highlights about my exchange and the things you need to know to get you through living in a foreign […]
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Pretty much in every persons life you will have friends and relationships come and go, maybe for the rest of your life or maybe one day you’ll meet them again. The majority view people changing as a bad thing, but realistically it shouldn’t be your choice to make, if people changing was for the better […]
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Now is the time to be happy and be yourself. When I decided I would go on exchange this year to Japan, I decided that this would be the year I learn to love myself, understand myself and learn about myself. For years I went through life just doing what it was giving me and […]
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Hey, to all the new people reading my blog who don’t actually know me.. Here are some random facts about me ! x :))
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