Tamatha F Japan, Polar & South America Specialist
I first went to Japan from 2006 to 2008 with the JET Program, teaching English to high schoolers. I fell in love with the profession and went back to the States to get an MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) before moving to Tokyo in 2011. I taught English at a university there until 2016, focusing on international studies. In my free time I wrote about travel in Japan for local publications including "Tokyo Weekender" and edited a chapter of the 2017 Rough Guides guidebook to Japan.
I've also spent a year living in Chile and Colombia as an English teacher and traveled extensively throughout South America. Some of my favorite spots are Colombia's coffee region,...
