Friday 5th
Another hot and humid sunny day. Registered my bike and then went home and slept for 3 hours, karaoke does stuff to ya man !
The day was spent chilling in the lounge, I went to Topworld for grocery shopping with Kaylee and borrowed a book from Wes, I haven´t read a book in ages, so it felt nice doing so.
Sebastian and Viktor had a fun time at the Kyoto trip that was organized during the day, since I already went there I passed.
I tried to get Tomo kun to ask his crush out on a date haha, he was like no no no, why don´t you and Wes join us. lol.
Takami chan, my buddy, came by because her friend was one of my dorm mate´s buddy. She liked the dorm a lot, and later took off for karaoke, but I was doing laundry so I couldn´t join plus I wasn´t in the mood for karaoke really.
Saturday 6th
Got up at 6 am, washed my face, and went to wake Bill up. It hit me that the gate was still locked and I was unsure of when it would open, but according to Bill it would open at 7.30.
So at 7.30 after breakfast we took our bikes and headed for Makino station to get the train for Kuzuha station and from there on take the bus from the 4th platform for Cineplex and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN KIZUNA MOVIE !!!!!!
We bought some popcorn and took a seat in an almost empty theatre, Bill tried chatting up a Japanese boy on whether he preferred Sasuke or Naruto but the boy was too shy and his parents smiled gratefully.
The movie had awesome fight scenes with Naruto and Sasuke against the enemy, loved it ! Especially Naruto´s scenes. I actually understood what the story was about and could basically follow the plot somewhat :). We even got a Naruto necklace which is 3Dimensional and has Naruto´s face plus Kizuna (Bonds) in kanji on it.
After that, shopping time !! I bought a dress, a shirt, a tunic and a top for about 430 SEK ;) . Then Bill and I bought ourselves some sunglasses because mine was broken and his had an unfortunate fate with a chewing gum involved. At the sport supply store where we bought our sunglasses, I browsed around for some prices; Le Coq Sportif sweatpants cost about 329 SEK, Converse shoes about 300 SEK and Adidas sneakers about 600 SEK.
There was a pet shop, and there where the cutest puppies in different cages, and my heart basically melted, I snapped so many pictures of them !
Lunch = RAMEN ! Gotta keep the Naruto theme going ;) It was very good and very cheap, about 700 yen which is roughly 42 SEK.
Bought alarm clocks as well, mine is red, Bill´s is black, they are on tripods and have swinging heads on springs, 1000 yen aka 60 SEK.
Tonight´s plan is dinner with Sanzhar I think, but we haven´t decided a time, so we will see when and if that happens. Wes and the Swedes are probably heading out, either to Osaka or Kyoto.
Tomorrow Sachiko is coming over for some tea, it´s gonna be really nice, she can see my dorm.
^^ xoxo from Hirakata
lördag 6 september 2008
torsdag 4 september 2008
KARAOOOOOKE !!
Wednesday 3rd
Out of 438 people, I got lottery ticket number 297, which means that I have to wait for 296 people to register before I can register. Poor Bill got the last one, so we wondered which courses would be full and which courses would not.
Payed my housing fee, liability insurance fee etc and handed over my insurance policy.
Meetings about safety for girls, apparantely there has been a weirdo following some girls but they caught him lol. But no worries other than that, it is pretty safe here.
Talks about no noise, do not drink in the park because it is no place to be drinking in, in Japan one should not drink in public, so you ask yourself where should they drink, well you can stop and take a sip of your coffee or water but walking and eating or drinking is considered rude behaviour. And since Japanese homes don´t have isolation, for sound, then you can hear everything !
Talks about recycling, here in Japan they even remove the label sticker on pet bottles, but then they sort paper as burnable and soft material plastic Plasticas. While we in Sweden recycle paper in a separate bin and but soft plastic as burnable alongside food.
Talks about careful and using Condom-kun :D .
Got home, had some food, then I went for karaoke at Big Wave (singing songs while following the lyrics on a screen), with Todd and some others, meet up with Bill and sat in his group´s room. For 1000 yen per hour there is all you can drink. So we ordered beer after beer, I sang Rihanna, and we sang Michael Jackson, Totoro.. Soooo much fun, headed back home after 2 hours and got home just half an hour before the gate was going to shut.
Chilled with Alex who went for basketball instead of karaoke. Suddenly Chikako came running saying a guy and a girl were lying on the floor in the boys´ corridor on the second floor. It seemed as if they were kissing, and she was a bit embarrassed to see that being done so openly.
So me and Alex sneaked up, and there they were, a bit tipsy and they started laughing, we just ran back down again haha.
Discovered Bill loves Naruto as well, so our goal for the weekend is to watch NARUTO SHIPPUUDEN MOVIE !!!!! mohahaha !! yup Dattebayo is probably not ready with the subs until next year !
Thursday 4th
I overslept !! I woke up at 9.50, and I had to be on campus at 10.30 to register for my course ! I just got dressed and fixed and everything in 10 minutes and headed off with Alex, who returned back to the SH because he forgot his reciepts from . I got there in time and handed in my chosen classses; business course, political course, culture course.
Went with Alex and Swedish guy David to buy a bike, finally !! I found a cute light blue one with a basket, it cost only 6500 yen which is about 400 swedish ones. it is a second hand one, but it looks brand new ! The owner worked so fast to get the papers and sticker (because every purchased bike gets a registration number which you have to carry everywhere since cops might stop you to make sure you are not riding a stolen bike ! Plus a registered bike has your name on it so you can park it at the university after registering there as well, which I will do tomorrow).
The owner thought my Japanese was good, which made me happy since I hear people who have a far more advanced vocabulary and studied more years than me.
After the bike purchase, me and David headed into downtown Hirakata to head over to City Hall to make an Alien registration, it took a while to find the building and it was so hot!
We had some sushi after the registration and then hurried back home, because we had a welcome ceremony and dinner at 3 pm ! We arrived at 2.20, and I rushed inside to shower, change and do my hair and makeup, I did all this in 30 minutes !!! When I came downstairs, everybody already left so I just hurried by bike to get there ! I got in just 3 minutes over 3 and the head president of the university had already started the speech so me and some others had to wait outside while his speech was done and then we could sneak inside.
The counsel of America and Australia were invited to make a speech and a student from the US made a great speech about experiencing a new culture and making bonds,pretty stable ! Then a KG student made a cute speech were she talked about Slam Dunk being her favorite anime and welcomed us.
So 4pm time for dinner! We headed over to the cafeteria where they had setup an amazing buffet, with sallad, and dessert and fruit and chicken and deepfried shrimp and sushi and cold meat and sandwhiches. It was really good !! There was even soft icecream, with matcha, strawberry and chocolate flavour. I talked to Sanrjar a bit, and then just chilled with David, Viktor, Sebastian and Jonas who is also from Växjö, studies Sport Management. We had lots of fun and laughed a lot, Viktor made a great reaction while tasting the dessert which made us encouraged in eating them, so we had to scout out for them, it was strawberry vanilla mousse and panna cotta, really delicious !
Plans for the night: KARAOKE!!! We went at 7pm with Mykel from SH 3, Bill and the others where going later. We were lucky to get there earlier because it got really crowded later and people had to wait about 1 hour for a room.
Me and the Swedish guys ordered beer after beer, and gin and tonic, I had about 5 during the 2 hours we sat there ! We sang Roxxette Sleeping in my car, Gangsta´s Paradise by Coolio, Final Countdown, Thong song by Sisqo, Michael Jackson´s Bad. We had a lot of fun, almost had a head ache. After karaoke I met up with Sanrjar and Swedish guy Christian and we walked home together and talked. We chilled out in the park and then I went inside just before 11pm.
It is time for bike registration and safety issues meeting. Don´t know about the plans for the evening, but probably something fun ;)
Hugs
Out of 438 people, I got lottery ticket number 297, which means that I have to wait for 296 people to register before I can register. Poor Bill got the last one, so we wondered which courses would be full and which courses would not.
Payed my housing fee, liability insurance fee etc and handed over my insurance policy.
Meetings about safety for girls, apparantely there has been a weirdo following some girls but they caught him lol. But no worries other than that, it is pretty safe here.
Talks about no noise, do not drink in the park because it is no place to be drinking in, in Japan one should not drink in public, so you ask yourself where should they drink, well you can stop and take a sip of your coffee or water but walking and eating or drinking is considered rude behaviour. And since Japanese homes don´t have isolation, for sound, then you can hear everything !
Talks about recycling, here in Japan they even remove the label sticker on pet bottles, but then they sort paper as burnable and soft material plastic Plasticas. While we in Sweden recycle paper in a separate bin and but soft plastic as burnable alongside food.
Talks about careful and using Condom-kun :D .
Got home, had some food, then I went for karaoke at Big Wave (singing songs while following the lyrics on a screen), with Todd and some others, meet up with Bill and sat in his group´s room. For 1000 yen per hour there is all you can drink. So we ordered beer after beer, I sang Rihanna, and we sang Michael Jackson, Totoro.. Soooo much fun, headed back home after 2 hours and got home just half an hour before the gate was going to shut.
Chilled with Alex who went for basketball instead of karaoke. Suddenly Chikako came running saying a guy and a girl were lying on the floor in the boys´ corridor on the second floor. It seemed as if they were kissing, and she was a bit embarrassed to see that being done so openly.
So me and Alex sneaked up, and there they were, a bit tipsy and they started laughing, we just ran back down again haha.
Discovered Bill loves Naruto as well, so our goal for the weekend is to watch NARUTO SHIPPUUDEN MOVIE !!!!! mohahaha !! yup Dattebayo is probably not ready with the subs until next year !
Thursday 4th
I overslept !! I woke up at 9.50, and I had to be on campus at 10.30 to register for my course ! I just got dressed and fixed and everything in 10 minutes and headed off with Alex, who returned back to the SH because he forgot his reciepts from . I got there in time and handed in my chosen classses; business course, political course, culture course.
Went with Alex and Swedish guy David to buy a bike, finally !! I found a cute light blue one with a basket, it cost only 6500 yen which is about 400 swedish ones. it is a second hand one, but it looks brand new ! The owner worked so fast to get the papers and sticker (because every purchased bike gets a registration number which you have to carry everywhere since cops might stop you to make sure you are not riding a stolen bike ! Plus a registered bike has your name on it so you can park it at the university after registering there as well, which I will do tomorrow).
The owner thought my Japanese was good, which made me happy since I hear people who have a far more advanced vocabulary and studied more years than me.
After the bike purchase, me and David headed into downtown Hirakata to head over to City Hall to make an Alien registration, it took a while to find the building and it was so hot!
We had some sushi after the registration and then hurried back home, because we had a welcome ceremony and dinner at 3 pm ! We arrived at 2.20, and I rushed inside to shower, change and do my hair and makeup, I did all this in 30 minutes !!! When I came downstairs, everybody already left so I just hurried by bike to get there ! I got in just 3 minutes over 3 and the head president of the university had already started the speech so me and some others had to wait outside while his speech was done and then we could sneak inside.
The counsel of America and Australia were invited to make a speech and a student from the US made a great speech about experiencing a new culture and making bonds,pretty stable ! Then a KG student made a cute speech were she talked about Slam Dunk being her favorite anime and welcomed us.
So 4pm time for dinner! We headed over to the cafeteria where they had setup an amazing buffet, with sallad, and dessert and fruit and chicken and deepfried shrimp and sushi and cold meat and sandwhiches. It was really good !! There was even soft icecream, with matcha, strawberry and chocolate flavour. I talked to Sanrjar a bit, and then just chilled with David, Viktor, Sebastian and Jonas who is also from Växjö, studies Sport Management. We had lots of fun and laughed a lot, Viktor made a great reaction while tasting the dessert which made us encouraged in eating them, so we had to scout out for them, it was strawberry vanilla mousse and panna cotta, really delicious !
Plans for the night: KARAOKE!!! We went at 7pm with Mykel from SH 3, Bill and the others where going later. We were lucky to get there earlier because it got really crowded later and people had to wait about 1 hour for a room.
Me and the Swedish guys ordered beer after beer, and gin and tonic, I had about 5 during the 2 hours we sat there ! We sang Roxxette Sleeping in my car, Gangsta´s Paradise by Coolio, Final Countdown, Thong song by Sisqo, Michael Jackson´s Bad. We had a lot of fun, almost had a head ache. After karaoke I met up with Sanrjar and Swedish guy Christian and we walked home together and talked. We chilled out in the park and then I went inside just before 11pm.
It is time for bike registration and safety issues meeting. Don´t know about the plans for the evening, but probably something fun ;)
Hugs
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