SOPHIE PATTERSON

It’s now more than four months since I moved across the world for a second time and made another home in the Pacific Northwest, and I wante...

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 ...

We drove home from taiko practice, the shrine dog's barks echoing around the mountain. At the bottom of the hill we stopped. The road st...

Between 29th April and 5th May, Japan celebrates Golden Week, when four public holidays mean the longest vacation of the year for many Japan...

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...