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general quick life update

• Told my boss I would leave my job
• Fast forward several weeks, then quit even earlier (lots of lessons learned; it was not pretty)
• Going to backpack Japan ~3 months while learning to code, practicing Japanese, online tutoring (so my bank acct doesn’t cry too much)
  • Ideas for other ways to freelance or support myself appreciated!
• Will be back in HK mid Dec. Will see how I feel, then either:
  • Keep backpacking another 3+ months (NZ/Taiwan)
  • Go back to Japan and keep backpacking (wary of winter though)
  • Move out of HK, find a job

can’t give you more details ’cause that’s about all i know myself lol. i don’t have the answers, just a direction and slowly nurturing self trust + listening to myself even when it’s scary for all sorts of reasons, so here we go, and here’s the process 🙂

more recent life update (~mid Oct 2019)

• decided to backpack at least 4-6 months more after this trip (depending on money)
• will probably leave the coding + tutoring to later since this trip is a lot of hopping, the next leg of the trip will do longer stays + more settling into a routine. will treat this time as the start! 🙂

I’m going to:

• Tokyo
• Hokkaido
  • Sapporo
  • Niseko
  • Hakodate
• Aomori
• Explore Tohoku for a bit (base out of Morioka, Sendai, Nikko and day trip outside)
• Yamagata
• Minami Alps, Yamanashi
• Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
  • Maybe Tenryumura? (JSSL ’18 days~)
• Kyoto (see fam!)
• Okayama?
• Shikoku
  • Motoyama, Kochi
  • Toon, Ehime
• Fly out of Osaka

I’m not looking to see as much as possible, mostly trying to inaka and clear my head, breathe the fresh air I don’t get in dense HK, and enjoy the delicious yums.