Haha, sorry~ I didn’t notice I had wrote in Swedish. Now you saw how tired I am. Not much to tell about my free day. Just studied and draw some.
So there is just one more time to go to the kitchen now and prepare. There is so little people her so I'm not sure we even have to do anything, but will see~
Oh Well, Happy dragon year! Especially for my own little dragon back in Sweden~!
I got a little bit depress yester day. I think because 2 reasons. I have never expired a job before and I where so tired.
To much new stuff and a languish I'm not so good at. Our first really work day was a pain, but I think it was because we went up to early. Today we got more sleep so feel a bit easier.
Been exploring a bit outside. Not much walk friendly ground. I forgot how slippery it can be when it’s cold and snowy.
Got easer to do stuff today and enjoyed onsen after work. There's not much girls here so I got to enjoy it much alone. Just feel so relaxed and calm.
I really like this place.
So what I’m a doing? Well, depending on day. It’s like; start about 6 or 9 (the leader choose). If we go up 6 there is breakfast to serve, we get to eat breakfast while the guest are eating, and the lots of dish to wash. Around 9 more people will come and to take over for a while. We get to rest until dinner time. Around 12 there are lunch to serve, eat while the guests are eating, clean up, rest and then the same for the last meal around 6. Around 9 everything is done. Sounds easy – well it really takes your energy.
Ok, first day at the work! Sleept bad but are ready for work! 05.55!
No one else in the kitchen exept Fredrik and me. Something's wrong.. 06.15, the one I will call leader got to the kitchen. We dident start work until 9.30. Some breakfust at 9.00. So, back for some rest.. I'm glad we don't even have 1min from the work to our rooms.
Went to a great party on friday, so where really tired at sutarday, but, I had to fix some last stuff. I cud calibrate my chrismass about seven o’clock. Just myself, had a small fever so I didn’t even want to look outside.
On the night it was snowing, an interesting christmas present.
But, didn’t really matter, cause now Fredrik and I have went to the skii hotel to work. Kinda just sitting and waiting for lunch 6 o’clock. Except some strange stains on the wall I got a really nice place to live in. Really a classic japanese style room. Funny part is, I have been here for a year, but never had a traditional room.
Still a bit worried about the languish.. I know I have to learn, but still don’t want to mess up..
So today was the last school day. Just had a small christmass party. Eating a lots of candy and food. I'm going to get fat this winter :P
To much candy~
Today I even got forced to turn the ac on, got so cold that I culdent move.
12/21/2011
Got an idea of a character I just had to sketch it up. Been thinking about a long time now. My style cloth style is pure black and white so I wanted to designee a character that’s just black and white. She's actually a small little animal that can turn into a human~ Going to work with her more when I got time.
Got up early to see if my packet would come. I wasn’t sure about the time, so I went up 9 and waited to 10. Got sad, nothing today ether? Instead I got that wonderful pain girls get 1 time every month. Got some more rest hoping the pain would go down before school. Searsly we have to get a pain that makes you sometimes crazy and give birth! This is the reason some girls always gonna scream about the "unfair world with men".
Suddenly the door bell. PleasePleasePlease! Fighted me up for the door. My packet arrived!
Got so happy!
Nuts,candy,cookies and under all that I find a little Santa doll.
YAY!I... have to much candy....And I thought I where going to have to little to make a christmas feeling. That's definitely not a problem any more. My chai tea really helps me get the smell of swedish christmas to. I'm happy, I'm going to eat and rest on christmas (swedish is 24) and then go for work 25th.
Much to do before that tho; buy new warm cloths, pay all bills, pack and see so I have nothing that will mould while I'm gone.
Gah so cold! Think the coldest day yet. Need to get warm fast so I can study. I really want to do good in school the last week. At the list with new classes I where put in the normal class. Made me sigh a bit, i really want to get better now!
I have got much better, but still... People here there I live have started to say "welcome home" to me, but my brain always stops, gets nervous and don't understand a single word. Until I realise when it's to late, just want to hit the head in the wall hard.
Tho one of our teachers wanted me to be in morning class. Got so surprised. I know my grade got higher then before ( Tokyo - 20, Ueda -89), but still, would it be enough to be in the morning class? The one next to me had 100/100 last test.
Well guess I just have to study hard when I get time over from work.
12/19/2011
I love fire... but maybe not in my house..and.. not the size of a big rice bowl.
Shit! Fire! What too do? Put it in the sink? Throw it outside? Put a blanket over it?
I'm not going to be the reason for a disasters!
So.. sat down so I got the same high as the fire.. and blow carefully. First reaction. Can't believe it work(ok with candle size). Hurried to close to the fire alarm and open up to get the smoke out.
I noticed it works to toast bread in the little fish grill. Just let them be some seconds and turn them around, let some pass again, and you have perfect toasted bread. Tho my seconds turned to minutes. I had luck that I noticed the fire so fast, it cud had end really bad. Never toast with the fish grill and do other things at the same time again.
After some food I decided to decorate my chocolate house. When I atlas where done, it broke. Got sad and just wanted to eat it all up, but it made me more sad you just let all work be a waste. So I took my lighter and started to try to put it together again. Broke once more before I had it done.
Happy with the result~ Not the best but not in pices.
So sitting and wonder all the time; where to start tell about stuff that happen since I came to Ueda. Always end up just sitting and thinking with no update. So decided to start write about days from now instead.
I where looking for a store named Donky. One of my favourite stores, so much fun stuff to find.
Tho, when I tried to find the one here in Ueda I suddenly find something else that reminded me of Donky, but a little bit better. Donky is mixed with fun unnecessary stuff to normal kitchen stuff, but this other store had more fun designee stuff.
From warm cloths to funny candy :) Bought me a chocolate house. What? I don’t get any ginger house, then I shall have a chocolate house! Hehe.
Plans for Christmas? No. I where thinking about invite friends, cook good food and just have a nice time. But that needs planning! I really lost energy to do anything special. I didn’t get the job my teachers had for me, but she got fast another. Same work, just another hotel. Got really worried..
So well, I'm starting 25th and are going to share room with some girls. Hate sharing room. Can't complain, get food and the room for free, so I just have to deal with it.
To morrow I will go and get my packet from home. Exited, been longing to get it. Would be happy to get it in my hands even if there are smelly socks in like my dad told me ;)
A christmass card frome home and my chocholat house. Trying to think out a good candy designe on it.
The internet plans didn’t go as planned, but now atlas I have it! So happy, and so broke! Just because I didn’t have internet to check my money, I really lost my money control. My family’s computer is even broken so I get a bit hard to get time to talk with them, hopefully I wouldn’t need to lend from them tho.
I got an job for the winter break. Makes me so happy, first time ever to have a job. Will go to a ski hotel and clean and serve some food for the guests. I get a free room, food and time over to ski for free, but I think I just will go around and take photos. Long time since I saw snow now.
I'm so happy I went to Ueda. My japanese is improving big time and I experience so much. One of my absolute best memories yet is when we went to see the fireworks in Nagano. Japan don't have fireworks at new year, so I want to enjoy it when ever I can. We got a perfect place to sit on (we even laid down)and we where so close. It was impossible to get everything in the camera when I tried to take photos, to close. With festival candy and surrounded by friends I hoped that the night would never end.
Instead of putting up 10000 of pictures, will I load up a movie~
Until then, enjoy this~ and some pictures
A normal day in class
I have really got better on cooking food.
Erika, Nathalie and me going to the Designe fiesta eventetin Tokyo
Boght this in tokyo~ Pudding in a driking can
Succses to make my favorite swedish candy,marsipan. These lovly waiting for get dipt in choklad. Then I forgot to take a photo... ate them ..
So long time since I updated here. I still don't have any internet. 2 weeks more to wait. Longing.
I love my new home in Ueda, but I miss some places and some friends in Tokyo so I'm so longing for my trip. Erika, a girl from Philippine is joining me to Tokyo. Actually, I just wanted to go to Tokyo for an event, but suddenly it got more then just a convent trip.
Got the apartment. It's so nice and so big(well, for a japanese apartment for one person). A little dream place.
So much to tell that I don't even know where to start.
There are just 5 swedish here. I'm the only girl. Kinda funny to think about when there are so extremely many swedish in Tokyo.
I do everything by bike and been exploring a lot. The city is surrounded by mountains. I love it. Even stopt with the bike in the middle of the night just to see the stars for a while. There where hard to see in Tokyo.
Will take until the 12th for my to start updating as usual.
Love to cook my own food in the kitchen. Experimenting alot.
My living and bedroom. Got my self a kotatsu. A table that heats up. Very classic in a japanese home. Its a cheaper way to warm up then to use the ac.
Still have to go to the trap, so sitting here, eating some candy.
Fond a chocolate I used to buy in Tokyo, you get a kanji sticker with my favourite drawing style. I can't get internet from my phone until I been visiting Tokyo. Will see my "apple master" to fix that. Thehe, just a friend I got in japan and help me a lot with the phone.
I'm going to get an apartment in this week, so I don't have to pay the unbelievable big amount money for the place i live in now.
Actually I don't get why it's so much money for this place. I mean, the rent is the same as the one I had in central Shinjuku. Well, if you stays longer it will be smaller price, but still, I will now pay the same amount of money in the apartment as the lowest single room in this place.
The toilets and showers are so bad, there is no point to clean it because the other who lives here. I have to get my own kitchen stuff and toilet paper. No, longing for my apartment, a bit far from school, but a hygienic place I make the rules in.
So, I'm now in Nagano and sitting in the stairs to get internet. The internet in the school don't reach my room, but I'm trying to get in to my phone internet. Of course my phone miss one update so I have to update it myself. Taking some hoers.
Oh well, hopefully I have it done tomorrow, so I will continue the "stair meeting" for some while.
I like my new home and my new school, but there are 3 things that's making me crazy if I don't get an apartment. I haven't been exploring yet, but even if I just seen it from the window I love this place. Surrounded by mountains.
To morrow is the first the first school day and lots of stuff to day. I cud use some more break , but i really want to talk about an apartment in school.(really jealous at Fredriks apartment)
Already meet some new and partied with nomihodai. So I really thinks this is a good start here~
Standing in the rain waiting for green light. So tired, even if I went to bed 11:00 I haven't been able to sleep until 9:00.
Went up 8:00 to start packing all stuff. Went really slow and got worried about how to move all stuff. Got done 17:00 and got help by Bea to post my stuff to my new home. This is a really expensive moth, but I'm glad I will save some money in the end. As example, I will live in the new school, no travel money.
Got to see Nathalie a last time. She's going to take care of my sofa for 1 year;) But the easiest and cheapest way, where to put the sofa in a taxi, so paid her a taxi for the help.
Bea and I went to Akihabara to get me a 3DS and some cds for her. I see the 3DS as my own birthday present and Christmas present. The funny is that there are a game store in Nagano and in Nagano, everything is a bit cheaper, and I can still play my DS games in the 3D (sold the DS).
Got some food and then went to see Yukiko. Felt important to see her and I really don't want to be unable to see her. Made me worried.
I happy scream for a adventure, but at the same time, asking myself, "what I'm a doing?!"
I will go by myself and without knowing someone from the school, just take a deep breath and go to the fire.
At last Bea and I made a small early celebrating of Halloween with pumpkin pudding, strawberry cake, chocolate cake, pirikura and some game playing in the ufo catchers.
Soon I will have to go, so, I will upload photos on the latest days when I'm in Nagano.
10/02/2011
So little time so much to do, wha!
the inactivate is because of lots of stuff to do before new school. And, I have been working on a comic. There is just 3 pages now but hoping to get some more done before the break ends. So less time to write here, will be more after 7th.
Link to the comic http://3spots.deviantart.com/gallery/25740272#/d4aoyqu
So many lies, so many secrets, so much happiness, so much sadness, It's always complicated and build up wit so many different things. Never ok, always bad or good.
Much happens all the time. I never taught about how much you actually have to lie to become something. Who can you trust, who can't you trust?
I got a girl laughing in my face; "you don't have any friends!"
So many words fighter in my head. So what if I don't?! Is that a problem?! I been without friends for so many years and it will come more lonely years for my dream! It's not a problem to be alone!
But, I couldn’t say it. Other words suddenly stop me and so many flashbacks. I.. have friends.. people who actually care about me.. sometimes some of them really put me in trouble.. but they always comes there to hold me up. People that never would do something on purpose to hurt.
I wanted to start cry. Why haven't I seen this before? I really think I'm always alone.. I always get so surprised when people reach out a helping hand.
I want to give them all something back.. but I have no idea about what..
If someone saw the girl and me fight, I think they would say she "won", doesn’t matter, when I realises/think to much at the same time my dyslectic makes me quiet. That's why I have problem to speak load in the classes.
She just wanted me to try hurt her so she cud get a laugh.. I just wanted to make sure a friend didn’t get in to really old stuff I almost myself forgot about.
I got mad, because she didn’t even listen on what I said, she just wanted me tog to get more mad. As a reflex I grab her neck and hair, something I always did on my sister when she didn’t listen to me. It’s a thing that just gives a little bit second pain to make the person listen, nothing that gives any wounds. Tho, they all got scared and taught I would slap her face.
Just because I have a different style don't I hit people.
I guess this was one of the best things that happen, I realised so much stuff that made me so happy inside. Everyone in the room cud laugh if they wanted, it didn’t matter, people can talk about this for years, it doesn’t matter.
I actually wanted to say "thank you". We had test right after. This is the first time I never cried on a test. I couldn’t, just thought about stuff that waited on me and noticed I know much more than I expected.
After a lovly time in Akihabara with a friend I noticed a mail that made me even more happier. I'm now going to study so hard that my fingers will start to bleed. I'm so loonging while i watch some cartoon and cosplay books I got for free. Soon I will be there.
In sweden we have like a special time for a little break with cookies and (often) a coffee. We call it "Fika". Depends on family to family there are different "rules".
Some have special cookies, and a special order you eat them in. Some even just have one cookie. Fika is also different impotent, some just have it once a week while some has it once a day. It even changes depending on how the daily life look.
For old people it's more impotent whit the same rules.
In my family you have to eat the most bread looking cookie first, then you can eat which cookie you want. Tho, are there cake, you have to eat at least 4/5 cookies before the cake. It's just because, if you leave something, your telling the one that gave you the cookies "I didn’t like it" even if your just stuffed but wants’ to try a small peace of cake. Often in my family, we make the cookies, so really impotent to not be impolite.
Home made cookies are really a "love" sign. People who actually don't have time, spend hoers to make cookies for there family or friends. That's even why some gets a bit upset when they notice the person who gave them "fika" haven't made the cookies. Tho, also most common with the old ones. The daily life makes it hard to even get a break with cookies.
To drink it's most common to have coffee, that’s why some even have start to say "coffee break". Tho "coffee break" doesn’t always include cookies. Kids often drink "Saft", a sweet drink often with flavour as blueberry, strawberry, elders, stuff you can make yourself in sweeden. I love when grandma and mom makes with elders, even my little sister has now started to make her own "saft".
So right now I sitting with my Coffee and a chocolate corner and thinking about tomorrow. The school give students a change to move to the school in Nagano with no extra cost, so tomorrow is a free school trip for the ones who wants to see the school. Nagano is a much smaller town then Tokyo. A country side of japan. I really feel that it would be good to move, it would be a calmer place to study in, and I don't want to be stuck in Tokyo. I want to study in a comic school in Tokyo later, but I want to see more then just Tokyo. I have seen Kyoto and Osaka, and I saw so much I can't see at the same way in Tokyo. I love Tokyo, but I hate to be stuck at the same place right now.
But will see tomorrow if I go, maby i change my mind when i see the school. There are so many things I will miss in Tokyo if i go. Many friends!
But, I'm still so tired, my body haven't really want to get all power back, but some rest and it will be fine.
Today we didn’t really have school, we went to a place in shinjuku to.. erh.. check or lungs..? actually, no idea. I didn’t get information about this day, but we were like.. hugging a machine one by one so they cud take a photo of the lungs... kinda...
Oh well, just because we where so close my home did Nathalie follow me home. For "dinner" we walk to Sweets paradise. I wanted to show her the cake bufe and the one in Shinjuku is so close my home. Just because, we decided to visit Designe fiesta in Harajuku. Love that place, and I wanted Nathalie to meet some good of my friends. We even find some shoes for Nathalie ;)
Last of all we walk back to Shinjuku for a Isakaya. Just so much talking about so much random and just stuff we had to tell each other etc..
Ok, how many think I'm talking about the anime Naruto?
No~
Even if I been at really bad mood, have I been cooking some really good dishes. I'm really bad at cooking so I get so happy when I actually do something so good that I would have no problem to take a power nap after.
The head character Naruto is actually named after a little fishcake. Even, when they do joke about the fishcake and Naruto in one of the episodes is there people that never heard about the eatable naruto.
Udon (thick noodle), meat, naruto. Naruto is tasting kinda like a crabstick.
Really been hard weeks, but it's starting to lighten up.
Sorry to make so many worry. Hopefully, everything just go back to normal. Don't really what to say, just a really hard time. People really trying to make me talk about the problem, even if I just repeat "I can't, I don't find any words".
I miss a bit to drink Turkish tea and smell the ocean wind back in sweden. Need to do something to not think about that. Maybe a photo day, just walk around on my favourite places and take photos. Akihabara, Harajuku, Shibuya..
Bea message me about 4. I just wake up after a bad night. Weird dreams and a hurting body. Really hard to get up, but I so wanted to go to the festival. There where going to be fireworks.
Even if there where some problems to find the place did we arrive just in time and got just at the right place. Standing on a bridge. Tho, the place had a time limit. Lots of cops where there to make so many as possible get the change to stand on the bridge. Didn’t complain, got enough time to just enjoy the show.
Just lovly.
When our time on the bridge got to an end, did we attack the candy. The fireworks where still enjoyable, they reflected at the big buildings that it just look like the buildings where going to explode.
And as always, there is someone calling us "Lady Gagas".
Come on, she have green hair now.
Watching the school books.. poking some important papers.. looking at the watch up side down.
I'm so school tired.
So hard to get throw, gets harder to study when's so warm outside. In the classroom we have big windows looking out on a small part of the city. Everyday a big sigh. Even when it's raining it looks more fun to run throw the streets. Want to see a forest, that would be lovely. The best time outside, is when we are forced to be inside.
So, I got stress problems in Sweden without first notice it. After 1 year I really believed that I didn’t need my stress medicine. I regret big time I didn’t take them with me.
I'm now back in Japan and calm. Been sleeping to 6 today and had problems to leave the bed. I woke up because someone called my name, really loud. A dream? It sounded like mom when she yelled at me to get up to school.
Just went up to get food, then some more sleep, but I really wanted to draw and write to people so,I got stuck. If i continued sleep maybe I wouldn’t sleep at the night.
I don't feel good.. and I'm still not sad..
I will .. just about one day.. go back to japan.
I'm so glad to go back.. but still.. that means hard work..
So I'm lazy, I rather want to stay home for 2 weeks more and just chill. I got 2 weeks vacations. Little bit mad about that. Feels like I haven't been able to think.
Yester day we went to the market in Rokneby and today I went shopping with my mom and sister. I fast relised that my new stuff is... very typical... old nordic style..
I still don't know if I love sweden or hate it.
- It's my home.
Really cheep. Where so suspicious, took long time before I bought them. So, if I'm not getting them in a moth, then I got trick.
And if I get them, well, why not have a little contest to get one? :D
.. I had to buy 10 .. to get 1.. and I really wanted this earphones. I think they are really awesome and so.. playful :D
Yeas, maybe "pill earphone" wouldn’t be a playful thing.. but when I see pills, I think about that classic super Mario game "doctor Mario". Often starts to hum at the melody very randomly. So yeas, I love the pill designee, playful and crazy.
If I get my request I told the site I bought from, I will get black and white pill earphone, and if not, they will be gray white.
Well, now I just have to wait and see, they will end up in my home in Tokyo to, so I first have to get to my japan home.
Grandma, aunt and uncle; In english your say that to both of your parents side, but in sweden (not sure about all the scandinavian countries) we have special words for "your dads mom","your moms mom","your moms sister" etc.. so you know witch side of the family your talking about.
So this is about my moms side.
Such a long time since I smelled new cut grass and barbeque. Lovely. Felt so weird to se them ageing, I even got to cuddle my youngest cuisine and he's cute little dog. Still, where so tired so slept a short while after dinner. A cup of tea helped me get back the energy. Not much to tell, just family time.
6.00 get up just to be ready for the buss in to centrum of klamar.
9.00 be at interview.
10.00 be at the optic.
11.00 eat something wit an ol pal, Emely
18.00 take a walk with my ol pal, Monika and her dog.
So early! Darn.. Hate early mornings..
First I got to a cafe I loved to be at before I went to Japan. Got a coffee and answered some question for the local newspaper. Never seen a so young reporter. Felt more like a 1 hoer date ;)
A quick look at the eyes before I eat tempura with my ol pal Emely. Got surprised that little kalmar now have yakitori, tempura .. and something that look like gyudon. Did not taste like the real at all, but it where good in a swedish version. So much to tell and talk about, but just getting harder and harder to talk about japan. I have talk about it so many times, it's starting to get a little bit boring. How I live, what's my favourite food.. etc
Those thing I thought where so special in the start.. is just the normal life now, so it's hard to find it interesting to talk about. Well, after the food, we went for some classic swedish ice cream. Went I went to japan I thought swedish ice cream where kinda boring.. but I love it now:)
A small shopping walk. Got sad to say good bye so early D:
Killing tired, relaxed for some time before I went to Monika.
I love to take small walking trips with her and her dog. Talked about memories for so long. (forgot to photo her)
Wha, a day for my self. I need that right now. Just to read my school book and be lazy with some tea. I so need to get my energy back, so I have more energy to meet people.
Yester day I went to a cafe with my old classmate, Emmelie. Just realised I forgot to photo her. Felt so extremely nice, we went to the same place we where at when we saw each other before I went to japan.
This is strange :) I get home and drink Turkish tea. My family where in Turkey, got a bit sad that I missed that, but can't complain, I spending my life in Japan. I got a foot chain, tea and some candy they got from the vacation.
So nice weather, love to make some tea and then sit outside and just relax in the morning sun. The wind always smells fresh sea. Makes me happy to know I just can walk to the beach if I want.
But searsly... I'm often freazing here in sweden. The sun giving a burning feeling but the wind is so cold.
So third day in sweden and I spend it with my sister. A break at the cafe and a visit to the optic. Not much done. Just taking it easy and talking. Meet some persons I know, surprised me and got glad.
Travel alone? Ah, I didn’t feel ready at all, stress to make everything ready. I spent the whole night packing and cleaning the room. When the clock went 5 I decided to get to the train. Wanted to take the first train to have time to make mistakes.
I where going Haneda Airport. So I didn’t even know how the airport would look like. I ended up at the wrong train. The station had the number 16, but went I got to 11, I suddenly where at 19. Fast train, dam it. Didn’t get how to come to the airport so I ask a man, after that, no problem.
So, after so many hoers at the airplane I got to sweden, felt so wrong when I took my first step at swedish ground. Don't really know if I like it.
The first I meet is an angry mom with her kid, yelling at him and some that looks at you like your some freak.
Got better when I meet my sister. Got surprised, where just expecting to meet my dad. 5 hoers more to get home. Felt strange. So different environment, climate and the people..
I forgot about the trip that I got kinda no sleep. Got ready and went to the train station.
I got on the wrong train. 3 times, so I got so late. Where so scared that the teachers and the others already left. I wanted to cry because I where lost, but I couldn’t. Something in me just told me this day is going to be exiting. But how? I didn’t know the meeting place, I didn’t have the numbers to the teachers or the one I know would go. There is no way this day is going to turn out good!
Suddenly Javier calls on me at the station. I got so happy to see him. The hadn’t left the meeting place yet. Relive. I got to the teachers.. still unsure about the trip, a girl with the kinda same blond white hair suddenly looks at me and ask "your Swedish?" in Swedish. Bea.
Cool, a swedish girl. I'm not alone then, but that doesn’t solve anything.. or?
Showed to had so many interests in common, and scary look alike personalities some times. Never seen her before. She goes to the other languish school in Takanobaba. (There are 2, I'm going to the newer one)
The "city" where so beautiful to. Just because we went on a trip the school made did we get to designee some small candles and make a costume play as a samurai. I of some reason got to be the "dragon worrier".
O- Of course, I made a candle with some lucky cats on :D
O- Before the samurai cosplay Bea I and some guys went to a tea ceremony. I loved it. The old lady that help ous where so nice. We got some japanese candy, then green tea and the teaching on how to walk out from the tea ceremony. Everything happened with a bow (vidio taped).
O- The Samurai cosplay where so fun! The tea ceremony lady dressed me. She really gave me a calm nice feeling, and when I suddenly realise which of the costumes she dresses me in I just wanted to hug her. The costume where so heavy! The japanese tourist really loved to se Bea and me, the blond samurais! A mom asked if we cud take pictures together with her child (the kinds tho where so scared of ous) and suddenly it just got more and more japanese tourist wanting to take pictures. One even filmed us and one with a really advanced camera come from nowhere, took photos and where gone just as fast as he come. Had so extremely fun! O- Break. Bea and I went in to an old cafe to try a traditional dessert. The other joined us fast. O- Just walking around and fond a cute house we stopped for. Talked to an old lady and an old man about the house and about some old games. Even got some photos of many cosplays. (Tho, some of them are we not allowed to upload or share on the internet. )
The clock turns fast 4 and i where time to leave. Surprising Bea lived in my old guesthouse in Shiki. So I followed her home to eat. I so longed to talk with Tarou! He look so surprise and asked if Bea and I where sisters. Where so nice to just talk with him, wished I had more time, but the plan where to eat and then go to Shinjuku. Tarou where just going to throw away the stuff Alexandra left. Couriers about the stuff and planning about go back to sweden he showed me the stuff. Tho, never, I'm not going to bring that to sweden. There are so many books and so heavy, no, never. She hadn’t done something to keep them and I'm or Tarou is not paying to bring them to sweden, so he gave me them instead of just throwing the stuff. Why not? Feels sad to throw away.
The night ended so good, felt like Bea and I known each other for a long time. How do you celebrate a new friendship? With purikura! :D
Can't complain about this sitation :D
The boys!
The girls!
One of the boys samurai cosplay, will submit mine later.
So the teacher complained about how I act in class. Not really "complained", but got told to not do some stuff, like "don’t write while the teacher are talking" and "learn to write faster".
The last part made me a bit crazy. Sometimes we just get some min to do stuff in the book you just tried to learn. Really typical Japan on some way..
Get more "complains" now just because this is my last change to be able to go to a manga school in summer 2012. I hate when stuff you do know affects later. I kinda get mad of all complains.. but it's just to make everything in time.
I tried at least today. Followed the class better, but at the last lesion I where so tired to been focus so much.
I joined a trip for Saturday. Feel a bit uncomfortable about it but still not. I'm not going with the one I'm used to be with, and I don't know any sweed that's joining. Well, at least I know some. The trip is even for a traditional build “city”. I want to see something traditional, even if I have to go alone. I know I would enjoy it.
So I fond a good version of the notion that where at Disney sea. I personally can watch it over and over again. I would gladly go to Disney sea one more time just to see it.
I didn’t get surprised when suddenly Stich got a part. Japan loves the crazy experiment.
When I where taping I didden't get the "evil" part, and I have a really bad place. Kinda sad.. the quality on the movie I got where really god.
I really thought my bad mood would disappear this weekend. Tried with everything. Played sims 3 and pokemon, drawn some, watch some series.
Just ending up laying in the bed. Guess.. I just have to much to think about now, and when I have to much.. it always ends up doing nothing. Just snoozing in the bed drowning in music.
Read about so many going to the beach. I really been exited to see the beach here.. but now.. ugh.. I'm really more at a mod to stare at my tea until it starts cooking with my eye laser ( = just stare at it for ever)
So .. I'm agree with my character Taki and do this face to the world.
Cheap small celebrating for a longer weekend, monday is free from school ;D
I really like the gel here in Japan. I hated the swedish. But there is so big different on the swedish gel candy and the japanese dessert gel. The japanes taste freshly and often have small fruit bites in, tho I fond one with hearts, so couldn’t resist to buy it. So of course a cold Ramune. Perfect!
After nearly 1 year in japan.. I relay can't believe I never learn.. "don't eat the japanese food at once when you get it, or you will burn yourself"
I have a typical "cat tongue". Can't eat warm food, just burn myself.
I'm not sure about the "hat rule" in japan so, no hat while eating in restaurants to be sure.
ok about the "アメリカン人" joke "American" Not many japanese can speak english but they now some famous words. So if you say something on english they often think your an american.
It's just like when a chinese says "kawaii" everyone thinks she/he is japanese.
I love these :D But the name confuse me. Why "Makaron"? Isn’t that pasta? Ate my first Makaron here in Japan. Didn’t believe it where going to be so yummy, changed my mind at the first bite. My favourite by those I have eaten is Sakura and Vanilla.
I envy the small plastic Makarons girls have here often on their cell phone. Would like to have one just because they are so cute. Of some strange reason it fun to have stuff you like as small accessories.
So, I got a cute little dress perfect for the summer. Black and white and made in a really thin cloth. So nice to be in, but it's really short so.. when it blows outside I really have to be fast and grab it. I didn’t notice it before I suddenly made a "Marlyn Monroe" when I went home.
Wha.. Friday, thinking about what I have to do while forcing some new words in the head on the way home.
Stops for a store on the way to buy some drink. The coke in normal stores cost about 290yen, but I know there where going to be coke for 150yen in this store. Can't believe I haven't bought coke there before.
Everything, especially the drinks is cheaper. Never thought about. Even the soda that cost 100yen is down at 90yen. Water cost 50yen. Suddenly notice something that makes me jump of joy. The soda I been searching for is in a cheap store!
Ramune, taste like sprite mixed with a classis Swedish soda called "socker dricka". I tasted it for the first time at an Swedish anime/manga convent "Uppcon". Kinda strange price.. I paid so much more in Swedish kr to drink in on Uppcon and now I nearly pay anything. Uppcon 25kr, Japan under 8kr. I like "sockerdricka", I like sprite, I love Ramune:P
Much school and planning. If everything goes as planned will I put up .. something like a small documentary on the site. But, right now it looks like it won't be any filming until august when I have been in Sweden.
One of the persons I want in front of the camera is sick and my cameraman is messing with me;) No, just showed to know more about filming then I expected.
Where with him on a izakaya and tried to make up the plan. Tho, got fast that I needed the others to, but even if we stand in front a problem now, I think we cud make it. Thanks to Designe festa I really think this is going to be good.
Our material to work with is not the best, but you have to start somewhere.
If you have an idea or something you want to show, please write a note to; Milk-and-coffee@live.com
Haha, I so understand why I got so bad every time I had the AC on.
I never cared about the AC just because I don't know how to clean it, but after seen my manager clean the AC in the living room I wanted to try.
To the left is the cleaned filter, while to right is just out from the AC. The white is dust. I don't think the person that had my room before where thinking about the AC either.
So nice! Free from school today. Get up early and taking a coffee with my last piece of Sockerkaka (I made a new one, with peanut and Carmel flavour. perfect!)
Name of the blogg; Mirukutokohi means Milk and coffee(no space between the words in the Japanese languish).
Tho, starting to think if I maybe could name it Mizutokohi (water) The coffee is always mixed with water. Milk is a really uncommon thing for me to buy. This far, I bought it once.
But no.. I like the name ;D
I where so sure about that the teachers don't care about me.
"You have to go down some classes" Wha!? Your kidding?! Why?! I understand what we are doing!! I will be here for 1 year more! I will fall asleep if I go down! I don't want that!
Hurt so bad.
"the teachers know your dream and just want to help you. Your dream need your to be able to know everything 100%. If you just where 1 years student the teachers hadn’t care about if you stayed in the normal class or not. They want to help you become a mangaka"
Just wanted to hide under the hat. Wha..? Are they serious.?
Wanted to go down on my knees and bow apologizing. It made sense..
So, I have now a test period. If I'm not getting better, will I go down to lower class. Hurts, but I trust my teachers, if they say go to lower.. I will.
That teachers actually understand my dream and passion felt so weird. In Sweden no one took me serious. There is a comment I got once I never can forget; "Stop dream so big up in the clouds, it will just hurt you more when you falling back to the reality"
So,after school in Takadanobaba you can often see a really special bunny. We started to call him "the bunny man" (yeas in english, swedish love to say stuff on the english way). Of some strange reason is he alweys in a bunny suit.
When I Nathalie and Mattias spended our night in Takanobaba we just random walked around. Suddenly we see "bunny man" in a bar and wasing the dishes.
Really fun suprise. The bar where nice and traditionel, very local. Just one question.. "why a bunny?"
... what? Disney what? Did you mean Disneyland? Dinsey.. Sel? sal.. ? 何..?
Where many questions in the head when I heard it at the lesson. Never before heard about Disney Sea. Showed to be a Theme park at the same place as Disneyland. I wished a bit to go to Disneyland instead, but whatever.
Unbelievable hot day. Luckily the wind where hard that it cooled everyone down a bit. I burned my self a bit, even when I tried so hard to not get burned.
Suddenly in the park I felt like 5 years old. They played Disney songs everywhere that I got so many flashbacks on those days you for the first time see a Disney movie. Couldn’t help it, when they played "Bella notte" from Landy and the Tramp we couldn’t stop us from singing(the Swedish version).
our first ride where Storm rider. The where so small kids in the line that I started to wonder what we stand in line for. We got in to a room and got fact about what’s going to happen, we where going to be in a plane that ends up in one of the worst storms in the world. If there are something Japanese is good at is it too decorated and tell stories that you get "tricks" in to the imagination. Not really impressed yet just because I where still thinking about the small kids there. got in to a new room with chairs to sit on and a big screen. It really look like a future ship.
Disappear fast in my own imagination and forget everything else around me. I where so fun and so well done, I just laid back and enjoyed. I really got curios about to fly in real life, it felt so good just in the attractions, I bet it feels even better in real. The storm comes and stuff from the roof falling down, not impressed, to classic. Suddenly it starts raining, and of course, because "our ship" is broken it rains on us. I didn’t expect that.
When I sat down I noticed that there I laid my hand where whet. Don't tell me someone had so much sweat it stayed there I touched! Got relived when I realised in the end it where just water..
Like the attractions where, I want my games and movies to be ;D
Many attractions where really slow. I personally where ready for something fast, but 90% of all attractions where more story telling. I don't complain, it where really lovely done. The effects where awesome. One of the attractions suddenly throw a fire at you. Got so surprised by the 3D effect, but it would trick more if the blow where a bit warm, not ice cold.
I got so happy to see so many 3D effects. I'm not talking about the 3D you have to be in the right place or you see it flat. This where 360.
One of the attractions we wanted to ride had often a technical problem, but we got to ride it later at the day. Felt disappointed, "no, not one more of this story telling attractions ". Disappeared fast in the imagination because of the place where decorated with crystals. "so lovely, but.. why can't it happen something soon..?"
It got all dark and we got so much speed. Still no reaction from me, the other attractions had done the same, but slowed down fast to show something "special" in the decoration.
We suddenly gets outside and sees that it would go really fast down. "What the--?!" With a big grin and the heart hitting fast by surprise a went of the attractions. It never slowed down, it where like a real rollercoaster. Made me so happy.
The best attractions of the day where "Tower of terror". A hunted house, but not like those hunted house you think about in theme parks. Tower of terror tells a story about a man who stole land treasures, from Indian mask to Egypt’s mummies. The last thing he stole is a doll from Africa with a course, well the course is not really something he cares about.
We went into a lovely decorated room whit the doll in front of us. The attractions is like a "free fall" so got a little bit unsure if the room where the attractions. They where really carefully to close the doors. The story got told and some effects shows. Suddenly the dolls eyes lighten up. "ow come on.. so bad done.. a doll with lights in the eyes and moth.. wait.. it.. grins.. more and more?"
Couldn’t stop stare at the doll. "How? I just repeated for my self while the doll sad some words. It suddenly disappears in the air. First I where just thinking about how cool done it where and then it hits me, its impossible to make a doll disappear like that. Realise fast. "I LOVE JAPANESE 3D TECHNOLOGY!!!"
Like I told, I really feel like 5 years old. There where so many things that surprised me and so well done, every little small detail where carefully done. Tokyo Disney Sea really gave the "magic" Disney Always talking about.
The finale at the evening, lovely and impossible to write about without showing pictures. I tried to tape everything, but I forgot to load my phone the day before that in the most exiting time, my cell phone dies. Got a little bit sad. Well, just enjoyed the show big time. I'm going to show the clip I got later.
I video taped so much I forgot to take photos. I just have 3 from that day.
Got an idea of a character I just had to sketch it up. Been thinking about a long time now. My style cloth style is pure black and white so I wanted to designee a character that’s just black and white. She's actually a small little animal that can turn into a human~ Going to work with her more when I got time.
A normal day in class
Erika, Nathalie and me going to the Designe
Got so suprised and happy when Emely contacted me
