Getting my Japanese driver’s license 

After our move we went to municipal bureau the next Monday to register our move and since the one year since the translation of my drivers license is almost up we decided to change it as well. Unfortunately it took way longer than expected (somehow there were a lot more people in Yokohama than in…

A new Start – Hello Japan

Here I am, at 3 in the morning and I can’t sleep anymore, but still feel quite rested after only 4,5 hours of sleep. Because I just love to take pictures of my food let’s take a quick look at the flight yesterday. Dinner came quite quickly after we started and I was really good,…

Time to say goodbye

24.03.2015 I’m finally sitting in a plane to Japan and I feel both sad and elated at the same time. I just had to say my last goodbyes and that really wasn’t easy. But let’s rewind a moment and take a look at the last weeks. Before I could get really started with the apartment…

It’s getting serious

Slowly but surely moving to Japan becomes reality. This weekend I finally booked my flight with ANA (All Nippon Airways) and I’ll leave germany on March 24th. I had to wait until January 8th to book my ticket because all tickets booked on or after this day have a baggage allowance of not one but…

Christmas Chaos

“So this is chistmas…” and what have I done? Not nearly as much as I’d like. By now I thought that our plan to move to Japan would be farther along. In my head packing everything up and sort through our stuff seemed to be quite manageably in the evening hours after I come home…

In anticipation of a great year to come

I just completed the online registration for a TOEIC exam on November 29th. The TOEIC is the “Test of English for International Communication” and if you are asking yourself why this is noteworthy news for me, it’s all because of five little word: We will move to Japan! I can’t tell you how excited I…