When the Cherry Blossoms Fall: My Life as an English Teacher in Japan
This memoir is no longer in active publication.When Kim Hotzon and her fiance Bill decided, on the spur of the moment, to take leave of their jobs in Canada to seek work in the far-flung country of Japan, the twenty-two-year-old only imagined swaying cherry blossoms framing elegant bridges. However, when she and Bill landed in bustling Tokyo, the two soon found themselves deeply immersed in a strange new world that was often as confounding as it was exhilarating.