SOPHIE PATTERSON

It’s been almost 3 months since I posted here, and I don’t now how that quarter-year passed so quickly. I moved countries, towns and houses...

A while ago I wrote a piece for the prefectural office in Miyazaki about the similarities between Japan and the UK and a few of my mishaps ...

I t’s the time of year when new JETs are starting to pop up eagerly on the facebook groups and I’m thinking about buying my flight home. To ...

This week I'm giving a talk to a group in Miyazaki - the British-Japan Association to be precise - about Scotland, being a foreigner her...

This week was my first full schedule with the new first years, and I’ve enjoyed it immensely. With the end of our contra...

Way back in February we had a national holiday and, as is my wont here, I took up a complete stranger on their extremely kind offer of a d...

A few weeks ago the swashbuckling Sarah of Bookshelf Pirate – fellow St Andrews almuna, book worm and blogger – nominat...