Japan

Hey! As most of you know, I moved to Osaka, Japan exactly 2 weeks ago. I figured out it would be cool to share my experience here.

I never actually explained why I moved here when I don't know Japanese and don't have much interest in anime, you probably think it's for fashion and shopping then, which is true now LOL I got an opportunity, and when I heard about it, of course I took it and started preparing visa documents because Osaka sounds way cooler than spending another year in Frydek Mistek xD 

A month before moving, when I came back to Poland from Korea I started being hesistated due to my personal life getting veeeeeery complicated and me having a very bad episode. That's why I was also not posting anything, sorry. I'm a person to take every opportunity to make my life interesting because I don't want to ever regret not doing something in the future so I immidiately said 'yes' to the moving and was quick to process visa and stuff. But, the month before moving, when everything went down so suddenly I was really close to abandoning my plans and starting over in Warsaw. 

I can't even read hirigana and I know I'm too lazy to learn Japanese, I've never been there before, it's such a different culture and I have only 1 person I can count on in Osaka so I became really hesistant, like the reality of what a crazy move it is finally hit me. I always have this mentality where I'm convinced everything's gonna be okay so I'm not scared to take risks, but honestly, I think that time might just be one of the lowest moments of my life and I totally lost this conviction. I met old and new friends there and had so many social outings which felt amazing after isolating myself in Czech for 2 years, so I kinda wanted to stay and find a job & apartament. 

Buuuuut what changed my mind (except my life turning a bit better) was that...my visa was expiring at 11th Nov and if I don't enter and waste it, I won't be able to get a visa anywhere easily and I wanted to try living in USA someday too (T＿T)...

So I did come 10th Nov, 1 day before my visa expiration thinking I'll stay here for a month or so and come back, since I didn't have many expectations and really grew into the idea of staying in Poland. 

Do I regret not staying there now? NUH UH! I love it here~ Maybe it's cuz I didn't have high expectations that I like it here so much? Idk but I feel really good here. My shopoholist soul is in heaven and I'm constantly overstimulated (in a good way). What I love here the most is the architecture I think. I expected streets to be similiar to Seoul, but it's complitely different. The vibe here is just really nice.

As a classic foreigner, I of course fell in love with Don Quixote. It's a big Japanese market chain that has literally everything. Like, everything everything. I'm lucky enough to have Mega Donki not so far away and I can literally hang out there for 6 hours at night and not see even 1/3 of the products. I'm gonna make a post someday with pictures of some cool products!

Sanrio is like, everywhere. The main characters to find are of course Hello Kitty, My Melo, Kuromi, Cinnamoroll and Pompompurin but it's easy to spot character goods with Keroppi, Badtz-Maru, Cinnamoroll friends, Wish Me Mell, Pocchaco and the 2 characters with blue and pink hair. I need to admit I never watched any Sanrio anime but the characters are so cute and eye catching! If anyone's curious, here are my favorite Sanrio characters:

Sakura

Charmmy Kitty

Hummingmint

Mocha

The food here is really affordable! I was really suprised how cheap it is compared to Poland, and I thought Poland is cheap (well, not anymore due to crazy inflation...) After 12.30am at night, in my nearby market Tamade there's a discount on fish and meat and a plate of fresh salmon sushi costs 2 bucks! 

You can ask me questions or tell me what would you like me to talk about next!