expat living

  • iHerb: My Go-To for Foreign Toiletries, Vitamins, & Health Foods

    **This post contains affiliate links.** I enjoy living in Japan quite a bit. Cheap Japanese food, beautiful scenery, hearing and seeing Japanese everywhere. I love it! But living here isn’t without its challenges. Namely, finding foreign goods at reasonable prices.  With Japan as an island nation, it’s a bit isolated from the rest of the…

  • Grocery shopping in Japan for the first time

    Confession: I haven’t really experienced major “culture shock” since moving to Japan. Yes, I’ve only been here for two weeks, and yes, how can I know everything about Japan in just that time? Answer: I can’t. However, as you may or may not have known, I studied Japanese language and culture for four years during…