My introduction: from Scotland to London to Paris to Tokyo to Steemit!

Hello Steemit, I’m Nick Sikorski.

I’ve technically been on Steemit for a few months now, but haven’t gotten around to introducing myself (or indeed publishing anything) properly until now, so please excuse the delay…

So, about myself, then:

In my late thirties now, I’ve moved around a bit in my life: born and raised in Scotland, I went to School in France, university in England and Japan, worked ten years in Paris and now live in Tokyo. Same goes for work and study, I’ve been all over the place: studied Japanese Studies (Japanese language, history and culture) as an undergrad in Durham, Japanese Art History as a postgrad in London; then worked roughly five years in wine in Scotland and a further ten in spirits in Paris; then got fed up with working for other people, and dealing with big, inefficient and uninterested organisations.

I then embarked on a path of independence, interest in ecological matters, good health and happiness, and the search for a way out of the system. That led me to take a Permaculture Designer Certificate (PDC) in 2015, followed by two more courses in permaculture and organic/micro/bio-intensive farming the same year and then a fourth course - this time much longer - in all aspects of organic and market gardening over summer last year.

At the same time as I was doing all this I was discovering more and more about how the world really works on the geopolitical and social levels - developing on an earlier realisation awoken by the likes of Ron Paul - by subscribing to The Corbett Report, Boiling Frogs (and now Newsbud), We Are Change and, more recently, Voluntary Japan (aka Steemer/Steemian senpai kafkanarchy84).

Naturally, I couldn’t help but pull all of this together. So that’s where I’m at right now: based in Tokyo, Japan (moved here last year to get the hell out of the disaster zone that is the EU), I’m working towards setting myself up as an independent, liberty-minded, autonomous, permaculture-and-natural-farming-influenced and - if I can (anyone have any ideas, let me know!) - voluntaryist organic farmer. With that goal in mind, I have just set up a blog - korekaranoka.wordpress.com - to document my path and thoughts that occur along the way and, hopefully, to open more people's eyes to the wonders of Japanese natural food and farming.

Although I don’t want my account here on Steemit to be a simple copy-and-paste affair of all that I publish on my blog, I do like the idea of using blockchain as a means to establish that I own all the content that appears there, and ensuring that it remains accessible should the powers-that-shouldn’t-be ever decide to vaporise wordpress.

So, there you go, how’d I do?

All the best guys and I love to hear from you if you have any tips on how to make a worthwhile contribution to this site and community.

P.S. to prove I am who I say I am, there’s a link to my account page here on my blog, in the About section: https://korekaranoka.wordpress.com/about/