Mr Man!

Yeah, that's me!

Yesterday in Warabi, a sports festival was being held, and the different blocks here competed in different games. It was really funny and I met a lot of new funny people. Mostly small Japanese children. We played catch, only when I was the one being hunted, everyone else was the hunter, and when I was hunting I was alone. It was great fun! And I did an amazing promotion with my fivefinger shoes in the 100m sprint!

I also got my Amazon Kindle that I ordered a few days ago together with some friends who also felt that reading some books would be nice. It's amazingly awesome this far, and it's hard to tell you're reading from an electronic device really.

We're almost done with the first book in school and according to everyone else the next one is gonna be harder, but they said kanji would be hard too, so I don't know if I can trust them anymore ;)

Tomorrow's plan is to go to Lilla Dalarna to have some real Swedish food and mostly just to check the place out. It's located in Roppongi, which means "Six Trees" if you want to know.

My hand washing is going pretty well except for that the clothes dry up reaaally slowly afterwards. I do my very best to squeeze the most out of them before I hang them up, but it just won't do. Any suggestions except for a dryer?

See ya, rockstars!

Omedetou gozaimasu, Marcus-chan!

Yesterday we had a birthday dinner for Marcus who joined the "23 years and awesome" - club. We made tempura and Emma made marängsviss. It took some time to make the dinner though, and since you have to be out of the dining area before 0.00, we had the dessert in a nearby park. It's still around 19-23° at night here, so it was really nice.

Some interesting theories by various Japanese people:
- Drinking cold drinks in summer time lowers your body temperature so the risk for catching a cold increases.
- Eating natto makes your blood flow better.

Schools is going okay. My new class is a bit more noisy than the old one, and I liked my old class, but I wanted to speed up a bit. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case with all of our new teachers. Yesterday we didn't learn anything new at all. No words, no grammar. We made old things in the book, and now we're almost at the same chapter in the book as my old class. Sometimes I want to skip school so I can actually study, but I'm aiming for my 100% attendance so I can get a few extra coins after a year.

I've been out running a few times a week lately, and I can already feel the increase in my daily energy. I've had a problem with being almost sick for about one week at a time, and it's been stopping me from getting good routines on running.

I've also started to start my mornings with just waking up, and sitting up. Just sitting for 10-20 minutes, and calm down and just have some quiet time before breakfast. It's really refreshing!

When we went food shopping yesterday I also bought a loaf of seemingly dark bread, so I'm gonna go try it out now! Bai bai!

Achievement Unlocked: Complete a guitar set

YES! It's complete! Now I have a fully functional guitar amp (VOX) and a fully awesome guitar (Ibanez) and all for less than 3000 sek. And it's really good stuff as well, so don't you worry!

I just found that myspace has finally updated the video section so I'm posting a link to Ultimate Awesome's videos right HERE! Check them out now! Because now me and my friend, Bill, are getting ready for creating some new brutal awesomeness here in Japan!

If you want to see some pictures my friend took from the national museum of Tokyo (and some other photos) you can check my friend Erik's blog.

Oh, and I'm sorry for being really bad at updating. I guess I don't live an interesting enough life here to have anything to tell you about. Or I'm living a too interesting life to have time to write blogs? Well, I'll leave the answer to your imagination and have a great night!

And remember to live your life you want, not the one others expect you to live! (Think about it ;D)

Frag count ++

YEYEYEAH! My first frag is confirmed. I was making my bed the other day, and noticed a small brown orange thing by the wall in the bed. So I reached for it to pick it up, but it ran away. So I picked up my spray of demolition and KILLED THE LIVING FUCKING SHIT (excuse the language) out of it. FUCK YEAH!

Anyways, to the other good news: I've preformed so awesomely in school that I get to jump ahead a few chapters and start in a new class after fall vacation! :O It's awesome but also a bit sad. I like my class, but if I never try something new I'll miss out on tons of stuff, so I'll do it. We've finished 3/4 of our tests for this semester. This far we've done: Listening, speaking and reading. On wednesday we'll have writing.

Next week we have monday and thursday off, and after friday fall vacation starts! It's about one and a half week I think.

Tomorrow we're going to a zoo, and on Saturday, my friends and I are going to Tokyo Game Show. Pretty awesome I'd say.

Other things have happened as well but, I have to go to the bathroom. Maybe I'll tell you some other time. We'll, that's it for now!

Thursday

I've been sleeping alright for two nights now but I can still notice that before that I'd been sleeping pretty bad for quite a few nights, because I'm still tired even if I sleep slightly more than eight hours a night. But at least I'm getting the daily rythm back on track. We had a Japanese test last week. I got 93/100, so I'm pretty happy. The errors were things like forgetting a letter here and there and that's pretty much it. Still, I'm aiming for a better score next time. We had a kanji test yesterday and I think I almost nailed it. 18/20.

I think the teachers here are pretty good but they all have the same few flaws. They keep repeating that things are difficult and hard, instead of encouraging by saying "it gets easier over time" or "it might seem hard, but just practice and you'll get there". It really does have effect when teachers are encouraging instead of almost giving you excuses not to learn things because they're very very hard. And also they divide the reading between girls and boys sometimes, and it's just unncessary. But here they really make difference on girls and boys. Girls can only be beautiful, and boys can only be handsome. You can't call a guy beautiful and you can't call a girl handsome, even though sometimes that's the case.

Well I'm just gonna stick with being an "otonna" which is a mix between "otoko" and "onna" which means "man" and "woman", because I'm apparently not living up to the Japanese standard of a man. Men can't be scared of insects or cry to movies ^^ I guess that's what people think in the west as well when I come to think about it. Fuck that, I cry as much as I want when I watch movies!

Oh, now Hannes called me on skype, I'll write another entry later. Have it good ;D

War

So anyways I was in Ikebukuro yesterday with some friends and checked out some guitars. I tried one out and got to rock out with an electric one and it felt sooo good! I really miss playing electric guitar. At least I've been acting guitar teacher for a Korean girl for a week now and she seemed to be satisfied, so maybe I can do this for almost a living some day?

Summer break is over and the school has moved to a new building. It smells like smoke on the whole third floor and the sound isolation guys was probably on vacaccion during the building project.

Today I was really brutally tired in school because I had a surprise guest in my room last night. No, it wasn't a hot romance, I'm as sorry as you are for that, but it was something like it. At least I was lying sweating all night and didn't get too much sleep, so it was pretty much the same thing. Anyways it all started with me lying in my bed hearing some noises. They were really coming from outside the window but I thought it was from inside the room so I sat up and switched on the light and started to look around for a bit. Everything seemed to be alright, until I got the idea to check under the bed. I laid down flat on my stomach in my bed and glanced down under the bed, and oh dear, there, deep in under the bed, on the wall was... a cockroach. I was about to panic but then I convinced myself to sit up and take some deep breaths. I checked again and it had moved a bit further up the wall, and it would be hard to hit with my slipper if it crawled any further up the wall, so I quickly made up my mind to annihilate it. I grabbed my slipper, reached down under the bed and SMACK!

I missed. And the cockroach crawled up the wall and disappeared somewhere in the wall. The night... was ruined. I was lying listening to every sound, and when I was in some coma like state, something like sleep, I dreamed of cockroaches and sending Starcraft 2 marines after it. Didn't help much though. And then cats outside started making annoying noises and lots of weirds sound came from the outside. Also I woke up by the sound of my pillow falling out on the bed, dragging the computer mouse and lots of other things with it down on the floor, and I thought the cockroach was back pushing down things from my desk so the adrenaline started pumping real bad again.

So now it's war, and I've bought traps and spray of destruction for the poor bugger when IF he gets back. And I also turned down the AC to 17 degrees, I heard rumours they don't like cold temperatures and I'm a Swede, so I can take it. They also don't care much for clean rooms without food and dust lying around so I cleaned my room pretty well and placed out a trap (I have 9 more) under the bed now so I think I can sleep safe tonight.

Good night!

Short update!

Summary:

Summer vacaccion. Went to Odaiba. It was nice.

Went wall climbing. It was nice.

Went clubbing a few times. It sucked (big surprise).

I arranged a crayfish party. It was awesome.

I went to a public bath (wannabee onsen) yesterday. It was great.

I've started to get up earlier in the mornings. It's really great.

The new school building is great except that the smoking room is on the same floor as my classroom and after the FIRST DAY the school (completely new built) opened, it already smells horrible in the corridors and you can almost smell it a bit in the classrooms as well.

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