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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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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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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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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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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Going to school and participating in club activities or working on homework during your summer vacation? Working on your English speech during summer for a speech contest in the second week of school? That doesn’t really sound like a typical summer vacation.
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Wednesday August 14 and Thursday August 15 Stayed indoors all of Wednesday and Thursday because of typhoon warnings. To be honest it wasn’t that bad. Our supervisor messaged us and advised us to only get groceries if necessary (which we did when
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Saturday August 9 As the title says, we finally got the car! I bought a Honda life which is a kei car from my predecessor. We finally had a chance to check it out today. A little summary of what a kei
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I apologize in advance if this post doesn’t have as many interesting photos for the first few days. I didn’t feel comfortable taking pictures of my lunch and dinner with our BoE (Board of Education) staff. Nonetheless, here’s a small recap of
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August 3rd was the day I left Toronto for Japan. It was also the start of Caribana which made driving out of our neighborhood a little bit difficult. I arrived at the airport with Mom, Dad and Nikola at 10AM which was
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