About Lady Wait-Rose
Year 2019 marked her 10th year of working professionally, and she decided to take a year of sabbatical in the foreign land, where we have to undergo Vitamin-D deficiency but the Bohemian spirit still shines onto us: Estonia!
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Year 2019 marked her 10th year of working professionally, and she decided to take a year of sabbatical in the foreign land, where we have to undergo Vitamin-D deficiency but the Bohemian spirit still shines onto us: Estonia!
She planned to finally live the life she would have enjoyed if she had not pursued legal studies: offering cultural workshops on Japanese cooking and calligraphy, acting in front of the camera, and helping out Estonians with her ideas of house organisation. Unfortunately, Covid-19 hit her new exciting life soon after her settling in Tallinn. Since her workshop business could not be opened amid Covid crisis, she started learning Estonian language from February 2020. Because it was practically impossible and epidemically not appreciated to travel, she stayed away from her family in Japan for more than a year for the first time in her life. Although her first full year abroad was mostly spent alone in her flat in Tallinn, she quickly reached B1 level of Estonian language, fell in love with the Estonian pork and potatoes, gained new local friends in her neighbourhood and online. Overall, she integrated quite well into the local community despite the difficult life amid Covid-19. From January 2021, she was supposed to get the Estonian residence permit for her teaching positions in the local university and school, however, the pandemic situation again hit her new work opportunities. Upon her visa expiry, she wished to extend her stay in Estonia with the intention of living here permanently. However, Covid-19 enforced special restrictions for visa and residence permit applicants, and only those who have study programme or employment which requires one’s physical existence in the Schengen area country are now granted visa or residence permit. Without a job which absolutely requires physical commitment to work in a Schengen country, she cannot gain a residence permit. This is actually why she had to start something that definitely takes physical activity in Estonia: making and selling KASUMI air humidifiers and serving Japanese food to the locals. These are, in fact, her means of survival in Estonia! |