About Me

Hello! My name is Izzy.

I am a 5 ft 11, tea drinking, cat loving, illustration/animation graduate with an unhealthy love of olives.

Last year I graduated from Worcester University and, like so many others, have moved back home thinking “Cool, now what?”

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED my course, and still aspire to one day have a career actually related to my degree. But I have also reached a point in my life where I feel if i don’t do something exciting now, I’m going to become a grown adult living at home working a dead end job and spending Friday nights in bed with only a box of Jaffa Cakes to keep me company. Yeah, i definitely don’t do that now…

But things are changing!

Way, way, waaaay before University, my mother sat me down and said, “My friend Izzy (who i’m named after) did teaching English abroad and she loved it! You could do something like that too!” Being a young, foolish teenager at the time, I was probably more interested in playing video games than listening to good advice (again, definitely don’t do that now…).  But what she said always stuck with me.

Now, with an additional TEFL course under my belt and a yearning to travel, I am leaving for Japan in a few weeks to teach English!

It’s going to be a huge, exciting, terrifying change. Which brings us to this blog.

This blog will hopefully keep me sane as I adjust to life in a different country. A way to share my experiences. A means of reassuring my mother that I am still alive and well. I know there are many of you out there also interested in moving to Japan. Like you, I too have been clawing through the internet for blogs and vlogs about moving to The Land of the Rising Sun. Like those who have helped encourage me to do something new and exciting with my life,  I also hope to inspire others to do the same.

Or you can use this blog to laugh at my failures.

Whatever your reason is for joining me here, I’m just happy to have the company!