About the author
Hello, my name is Christi and I live in Japan.
In my mid-twenties, I found myself floating between jobs and feeling increasingly dissatisfied with the prospect of being in front of a computer monitor for the rest of my adult life. I wanted more out of my life than a 9 to 5 job. I was bored. I knew I had to do something. There was a whole, big world out there, and I knew I certainly wasn't going to find it in southern Arizona.
In February 2011, I left my life as a moderately successful designer behind to chase my dream (or my tail) of living in Japan. Read the rest of my story here...

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