Tere!
Heya, my (nick)name is Zooks. This is my official Irish nickname though I’m not Irish but Japanese. This is my self-introduction page so I’d like to introduce myself and talk about this website.
First of all, let me explain what the first line of this page means. It’s Estonian and means “Hello”. Easy-peasy to remember isn’t it? From today you may use it at the casher, pub or to your Estonian colleagues and friends. Make them happy with this easy start.
Next you may wonder why I’m in Estonia. I have lived in Tallinn for over two years as of January 2020 and I was a postgraduate student at Tallinn University. Almost when turning to be a second-year aka final-year student, I started working at an Estonian start-up company. As finishing my degree programme and graduating from the university, I have beeing working there. This is my brief histroy in Estonia.
You also might wonder about me. I was born and raised in Japan and my hometown is in Wakayama which is located in the south of Kansai area and just below Osaka on the map. I spent 18 years there and moved to Kyoto for univeristy. (It’s impossible to commute there from my hometown so it’s quite normal for people in my home prefecture to live by ourselves.) When I was a third-year student in the university in Kyoto, I went to Dublin, Ireland as an exchange student for one year. Then my Irish friend gave me that nick name based on my given name. Usually the universities in Japan have four-year programmes so after spending three years in Japan and one year in Ireland I graduated. I spent extra about six months in Kyoto working, I came to here Estonia.
The official Instagram of my hometown, Wakayama is pretty great so please follow and go “into the unknown”:
The purporse of this website is to show how my life in Estonia is such as experiences in Estonia, how I handle my culture (not merely Japanese culture!) here, tips to live and important procedures for living as well as trips in the world (but mostly in Europe). This website was created because many non-Japanese people have got interested in when I said “I have my own website” but it was available only in Japanese. (The Google translate was available but it didn’t make any sense since my texts are full of my dialect.) The Japanese website is the main one so this website may not have the same information but you may contact me in case you have questions and comments from the contact page by choosing the one on the top.
Finally, I have some social media accounts so please follow me, get annoucement of the newest blog articles on Facebook and enjoy my lovely photos on Instagram!
Hope you have fun with my website.
Aitäh!/Thank you 🙂
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