I got my tourist visa yesterday so I don't have to remember that anymore! It feels pretty good, plus I got a good sleep on the way home from the immigration place.
I also had a kick ass weekend, friday - sunday. We went to Disney Sea with our school on friday with possibly the sunniest weather imaginable, but with lots of wind so it added up to be perfect (well, I'm of the opinion that all weathers are perfect since you can't change it, but still!). I burnet my shoulder a little bit but it's turned to brown already and it didn't hurt.
On saturday we had a midsummer celebration in our guesthouse with everything homemade, including a really tasty potato salad. I ended the evening by going to Urawa to meet up with two friends I met earlier this week at random while taking a photo of a street in somewhere between Ueno and Akihabara.
On sunday Ayako came over and hung out for a couple of hours, and it might be one of the last times I see her in a while so it was nice to be able to see her before I leave.
So, I'm on my last week in school, and it's only two days left, filled with tests, but that doesn't bother me that much. I'm in Japan until next sunday before I go back to Sweden for a time. After that, who knows what awaits?
And oh, yeah, I had my birthday last thursday, it was really nice! I got smashed in my face with 3 plates of cream! It's on facebook somewhere I think, and maybe I can get my friend to put it up on youtube :) We ended the night with a yakitori in Nishi Kawaguchi.
Galleries:
Birthday
Ueno
Disney Sea
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måndag 27 juni 2011
söndag 19 juni 2011
Shippai!
Today I failed the 留学試験 (ryugakushiken) (foreign student test) super hard! I didn't understand squat about the math, physics, chemistry or biology, and the Japanese test was really frikkin' hard as well! I thought I'd do better on the Japanese part, but even my friend Birre (Wille) thought it was really hard, and he's way above me (and has taken the second hardest Japanese test I know of), so I don't take it very hard :) I didn't go in with big expectations and I don't really plan to study on university hear anyways.
It was fun though! I was in the same classroom as Birre, and we had lunch together, and afterwards he treated me a yakitori (grilled chicken) dinner in Ikebukuro, as a pre-birthday present :)
I'm studying hard for the N2 test 3/7!
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It was fun though! I was in the same classroom as Birre, and we had lunch together, and afterwards he treated me a yakitori (grilled chicken) dinner in Ikebukuro, as a pre-birthday present :)
I'm studying hard for the N2 test 3/7!
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fredag 27 maj 2011
Pictures and ticket home
I've booked my ticket home, it's plannes on the 10th of July. I'll be going on the same plane as Erik, and we'll change planes in Beijing, China. Before that, I've plans on going volunteering in Sendai, the city struck by the tsunami earlier in Mars.
I also dropped my wallet the other day but I got it back :)
I'm following a tv-show called Game of Thrones, and it might be the most awesome tv-show I've ever seen! Finally people who know how to make awesome fantasy.
School is going well, I've entered a conversation course, taking 2 hours from my tuesday and thursday school days. On tuesday we're going to Yoyogi park to interview people about awesome places in Tokyo. Every group has it's own theme, and we picked awesome places.
Here're some pictures from when I and Jerim went to Ichijouji park:
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I also dropped my wallet the other day but I got it back :)
I'm following a tv-show called Game of Thrones, and it might be the most awesome tv-show I've ever seen! Finally people who know how to make awesome fantasy.
School is going well, I've entered a conversation course, taking 2 hours from my tuesday and thursday school days. On tuesday we're going to Yoyogi park to interview people about awesome places in Tokyo. Every group has it's own theme, and we picked awesome places.
Here're some pictures from when I and Jerim went to Ichijouji park:
Me and Jerim in front of the Ghibli museum.
The big Iron Giant watched silently. I think I have a picture of me standing under him. I'll post it later.
Jerim outside of studio Ghibli. I was really good at poking trees so she got water over her all the time, but unfortunately she had an umbrella.
I've ridden one of them! In Ueno park though. It rained too much to use them more than 15 minutes in this park.
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fredag 13 maj 2011
Golden Week
So we had a holiday called "Golden Week" last week, or actually from the friday before that week, until tuesday this week. It was great to start the new school week with just 3 days of school!
So, firstly, me and some friends went to a big river between Kawaguchi (means river opening) and Akabane (red wing / feather) and just relaxed and played around. The day after was an awesome Swedish BBQ at the Nishikawaguchi (west river opening) guesthouse where my friend lives. I got home late but since I had plans to play airsoft with Birre (Wille) the day after I had to get up early. The airsoft game was really fun but almost every time I was hit, I was hit on the fingers! Not really fair play!
On monday, I, Marcus and Erik went to Nikko to watch temples and stuff, and it was the nicest trip this far in Japan. I really loved the nature and the countryside feeling of it, and people were much more friendly and open than in Tokyo. If you walk past someone in Tokyo, mostly even on small streets, they mostly try to avoid eye contact. In Nikko they said hi, even if you weren't even looking their way!
Tuesday I made pancakes for a Korean friend and we went for a long walk. She lost her ring at a small temple during that walk, so I went there the next morning to pick it up. It was the best weather we'd had for a long time so I didn't mind a walk. After giving the ring back to Jerim, the Korean friend, I met up with Flink, Marcus and Erik at Ikebukuro (Pond bag?) and went to Shinjuku to go to a katana museum. It was cool to see several hundred years old katanas. But since the museum was quite small, we went on to hang out in Yoyogi park, where I and my friend were attacked and chased by ravens, but also met some new friends who were really nice.
Thursday and friday were mostly just chill days, and I had pizza for dinner with Erik both nights, speaking about important things like, metal and warhammer.
Saturday I studied most of the day and in the evening I met up with Ayako and her friend in Shibuya and went to a café. We ended the evening with playing pool, and I lost three games ^^
The next day I met up with Jerim again and hung out in Warabi (bracken) park, watching children playing around and just enjoyed the great weather. After Jerim went home I went to play soccer with the guesthouse (I SCORED A GOAL!) and that was about it.
Monday, I, erik and Marcus went to Studio Ghibli museum, the animation studio that made, among others, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro and Ponyo. It was AWESOME! So many funny children playing around and there were just super nostalgic feelings wherever you went in there, and the museum was located at the edge of a big park, so it was almost surrounded by nature as well. Every visitor got to see a short animated movie as well, which haven't hit the cinemas. Maybe because it was about 10-15 minutes long? And you also got a small piece of film from a random Ghibli movie together with the entrance ticket. My piece of film was from Kiki's Express Service.
We were planning to go see Thor on the movies that evening, but Japan is pretty late with movies so it doesn't get out until July over here. So I watched the latest episode of Game of Thrones instead (awesome show) and had an early night :)
Last day of Golden Week, I mostly studied, read manga and walked. It was all in all a really nice week!
On top of that, I'm thinking of going to Sendai to volunteer a few weeks after school is over, so I'm trying to get some information from a guy who lived at the guesthouse but is now up there and helping out.
pictures! (In backwards order, but whatever ;D)
So, firstly, me and some friends went to a big river between Kawaguchi (means river opening) and Akabane (red wing / feather) and just relaxed and played around. The day after was an awesome Swedish BBQ at the Nishikawaguchi (west river opening) guesthouse where my friend lives. I got home late but since I had plans to play airsoft with Birre (Wille) the day after I had to get up early. The airsoft game was really fun but almost every time I was hit, I was hit on the fingers! Not really fair play!
On monday, I, Marcus and Erik went to Nikko to watch temples and stuff, and it was the nicest trip this far in Japan. I really loved the nature and the countryside feeling of it, and people were much more friendly and open than in Tokyo. If you walk past someone in Tokyo, mostly even on small streets, they mostly try to avoid eye contact. In Nikko they said hi, even if you weren't even looking their way!
Tuesday I made pancakes for a Korean friend and we went for a long walk. She lost her ring at a small temple during that walk, so I went there the next morning to pick it up. It was the best weather we'd had for a long time so I didn't mind a walk. After giving the ring back to Jerim, the Korean friend, I met up with Flink, Marcus and Erik at Ikebukuro (Pond bag?) and went to Shinjuku to go to a katana museum. It was cool to see several hundred years old katanas. But since the museum was quite small, we went on to hang out in Yoyogi park, where I and my friend were attacked and chased by ravens, but also met some new friends who were really nice.
Thursday and friday were mostly just chill days, and I had pizza for dinner with Erik both nights, speaking about important things like, metal and warhammer.
Saturday I studied most of the day and in the evening I met up with Ayako and her friend in Shibuya and went to a café. We ended the evening with playing pool, and I lost three games ^^
The next day I met up with Jerim again and hung out in Warabi (bracken) park, watching children playing around and just enjoyed the great weather. After Jerim went home I went to play soccer with the guesthouse (I SCORED A GOAL!) and that was about it.
Monday, I, erik and Marcus went to Studio Ghibli museum, the animation studio that made, among others, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro and Ponyo. It was AWESOME! So many funny children playing around and there were just super nostalgic feelings wherever you went in there, and the museum was located at the edge of a big park, so it was almost surrounded by nature as well. Every visitor got to see a short animated movie as well, which haven't hit the cinemas. Maybe because it was about 10-15 minutes long? And you also got a small piece of film from a random Ghibli movie together with the entrance ticket. My piece of film was from Kiki's Express Service.
We were planning to go see Thor on the movies that evening, but Japan is pretty late with movies so it doesn't get out until July over here. So I watched the latest episode of Game of Thrones instead (awesome show) and had an early night :)
Last day of Golden Week, I mostly studied, read manga and walked. It was all in all a really nice week!
On top of that, I'm thinking of going to Sendai to volunteer a few weeks after school is over, so I'm trying to get some information from a guy who lived at the guesthouse but is now up there and helping out.
pictures! (In backwards order, but whatever ;D)
An apparently famous restaurant we had dinner at, before leaving Nikko. They even had a vegetarian menu, that was pretty rare for being in Japan!
Our note we left at the restaurant. Sorry Birre, You weren't there but we only had your card to write on ^^
A small... thing in the middle of a 400 year old garden. We thought it might be some wishing thing, so I wished that Erik would miss the thing with a coin, and he did, so I guess it works. I didn't put in any money though :)
The 400 year old garden. I ate a small piece of a bush there, just to be able to tell people that I've eaten a piece of a 400 year old garden.
The sausage bending orc. Isn't it pretty bad ass that they had orcs bending sausages even so long ago?
The funniest stairs I've climbed. So many girls started giggling when they saw Marcus when we were climbing the stairs.
A... a... a founta... a ston... wat... . Something with water coming out of it at the middle of a plaza in Nikko.
The death squad. The drink I'm holding is called Mitsuya cider (three arrows cider), and it's super delicious.
View from some stairs close to the river between Kawaguchi and Akabane. It's the river dividing Saitama and Tokyo. I live in Saitama.
Jerim! We took a 5 hour walk between Akabane and Kawaguchi.
You can find some more pictures on Erik's blog
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