When I was in Japan, I picked Sign Language. It's a skill I've been wanting to learn for some time now, and my interest was renewed after watching an interview with a Japanese ex-drug dealer (yes, stay with me…). The lady was talking about her time in prison and how
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DMZ stands for Demilitarized Zone. It's a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north, splitting it almost in half. The zone's role is to limit physical and visual contact between both Koreas, preventing incidents and provocations. Despite its name, this narrow (4km wide) zone
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In my last post, just a week before my departure from Japan, I wrote how I had never been sick or to the clinic during a whole year abroad. Little did I know... What happened? Just three days after that post I went on a goodbye meet with my friend
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Before going on a year-long Working Holiday, I made a post with my predictions about this year. Now, just one week before my visa expires, time to compare them with reality. I think I will miss... (food edition) What I wrote one year ago: I was never a fan of
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I decided to go for a one-year-long journey with iPad, camera and Kindle, but not any other form of electronic entertainment. And I do like games. Bringing Switch with me would be great, yes, I contemplated that. But I wouldn't feel comfortable travelling with yet another expensive thing on myself.
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Surfing the Indie Web has become my hobby. Reading blogs about niche hobbies, admiring unique layouts, experiencing people expressing themselves on a sites they built... Coming from social media, it's such a refreshing change. One day, I stumbled upon a blog tag game. Simple - bloggers answer questions and tag
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I spend my entire winter in Madarao, Nagano prefecture. I managed to get a job from Workaway in a really nice lodge with a nearly 10 rating on booking dot com (yup, rich people retreat!). It was supposed to be the most chill time during my stay in Japan -
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When I woke up a few days ago, I heard birds chirping outside my window. It was the first thing I heard in my day and made me so happy - a nature greeting me like that, wonderful! I had never really noticed that sound much before - it's not
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I decided to pack for a year in one backpack and one small daypack. After over half a year abroad and experiencing everything from hot and humid summer to a knee-deep snow, I can say that it works pretty well! The key to pack for a year in one backpack
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I've been in Sendai for almost 2 months - working for accomodation in a KIKO hostel (sending big hugs to all the people I met and worked with in that place!). The hostel was known for its "global meets local" slogan and, as I quickly learned, it lived up to
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