Why we came back to Japan??

Since most of you asked me like

“What happened?
"Why are you guys going to Japan?”

So I felt like writing a story about it !

So here are some reasons why we decided to come back to Japan.

1. Visa

Yes it’s always about the visa!

I think this is the most common reason that people are leaving countries.

I met my husband in Tanzania, an island called Zanzibar.

I was working back then but I decided to leave the job to get marry with James (my husband) so since I no longer working I must have visa to stay in Tanzania.

The first problem happened while we were in Japan last year.

I was supposed to get Dependant Pass which allows me to stay in Tanzania for 2years.

but since my lawyer was lazy and never do his work even he forced me to pay in advance which I should never have done that.

So I knew I should get my visa by myself once I arrived in Tanzania.

When I got there, an immigration officer advised me to get Tourist visa first and apply for Dependant Pass later.

I did as I told so James and I went to Immigration Office in Dar (a city in TZ) and they told us to apply online but before that, James should have national ID which was not mentioned in their official website.

After that we went to another office close to where he was born.

Then we were shocked when they told us that it takes around 1year to get this ID and without this I can never apply for my visa.

It also means I must leave once my 3months tourist visa ends.

I know there is a way to extend my visa when you pay “EXTRA” money but

we don’t know how long it’s gonna take to get this ID so it would be just wasting time and money if I pay for another visa to stay longer.

Also this year James’ Japanese visa will expire and we wanted to extend it anyway so it was good timing for us to go back to Japan.

2. Life in the village

There were things I wanted to do when I was living in the village but things are not going well as I planned.

I wake up in the morning thinking about the list that I want to get it done but most days none of them can’t be finished.

It must be hard to imagine when you haven’t been in the village and seen the life there and it seems like very simple and slow life but

it’s actually not easy to do your own things because you live in the community with family, with people so you can’t control your day.

I was ready to accept and adapt that but to be honest I was getting emotional day by day, feeling spiritless and also little frustrated about not being able to do things I wanted or planned.

so what I want to say here is that even if I didnt have this visa issue, I wouldn’t survive there any longer I felt like it was difficult to work in the village and connecting with the community at the same time.

Plans always change

One day I saw a post on Instagram that a woman said she is traveling without any plans, like when she feels like it, she packs and go to wherever she likes.

When I saw it I realised that I don’t always have to plan everything since in Africa, plans always change and you can’t blame it to someone or somethings every time.

I didn’t want to go back to Japan actually, coming back here was my last choice but now I feel like it is ok because again, plans always change.

Now James and I are back in Japan, not sure how long we gonna stay this time.

We are hoping to get jobs in Tanzania this year to save money for the next few years but we never know we might settle in Japan or we gonna go back and forth maybe.

Anyway hope you guys get the idea of why we are in Japan now and thank you for reading my story and following my journey through Instagram.

I’m so happy to see sweet comments and messages, thank you so much!❤️