The wonders of time, sundays and gingerbreadraamen.

The ultimate picture from yesterdays party, aint making it into the album at resedagboken (for those who haven't realized it yet, resedagboken is my censured, swedish blog)
Björn proves himself yet again to be the smyghomo we all know him to be.
And looking at Filip, he just found out himself ;D

(Gawdh his face is priceless)

Yesterday we had our midsummerparty. We had made gravad lax (or Filip had), brought sill and knäckebröd from Sweden and Filip made egghalves and potatoes and Jonas rolled a whole bunch of meatballs. We thought at least 10 or so teachers would show up, but we ended up with having the presence of 2. A bit boring, but we had fun anyways. A lot of swedish candy was brought to the party and the teachers ate with various faces and critiques ;)
We danced around our midsommarstång, that Karl and Peter built with some help from volounteers, and I taught the Japanese girls the tradition of picking 7 flowers and jump over 7 Gärsgårdar. (Which later in the evening also Tomo became a part of)
We sang Smågrodorna and Prästens lilla kråka. For dessert I and Anna had made Jordgubbstårta. I and Manaka went around All of Gifu hunting for strawberries to decorate it with. We drove around for at least 2 hours, and eventually we found frozen ones. Not exactly the same, but they told me it was oishii, so I have to believe them.
Around 11 pm Martin and Christian came over for a visit. Appearently they do whatever they can to get out of Okazaki. It's not that much fun after all. Tomo also got us lost on the way from the trainstation but I saved the day by telling him how to drive. ;D Felt. Safe.

Friday night we were at a Sentobathhouse. Not exactly an onsen, but it was. Interesting (to say the least) They had different baths in which one had electric tension. I got a cramp in my leg and went out. Creepy o_O And they say that it's good for you(!?) Another bath was like massage and then there was a tornado kind of bubblepool and a small pool with icecold water. Like the one in Hungary, but. Worse. Anyways. Want to go to a real onsen someday, but I'll guess there's time for that as well. I just wonder if there's money too..

And here I am. Time flies by so fast and I have to update resedagboken as well with some pictures.
I have to buy groceries on the way home and find some time to make my homework.

So. Until we meet again..

And so I went blue.

Ive　been 元気 for the last couple of days now and so I was when I woke up this morning at 7 after a good 6 hours of sleep. I took a long solemn breakfast and finished reading "The great gatsby". Now I have to fight with Jonas who will get to read "Crime and punishment" after Filip. But Jonas told me he could lend me "The stranger" by Camus, so it might work out after all.
Then I made some cakes with Anna for tomorrows midsummerparty with strawberries, bananas and a hell lot of whipped cream. To bad I cant eat them, but what the hell.
I took my newbought hat and went for a bikeride to school. And here I am. The genkiness dissappeared for no real reason and Im not sure what I should do about it. Got a good-news email though from UNF so now everything is in order back home and I can take care of that when I return to Sweden.
Maybe Im not that ungenki after all. Maybe I should be glad instead, having that out of my mind (the feeling of ungenkiness all started with a non-existant message from someone, but as I said, it came from no real reason)

Oh, and Mattias. I can tell you this much. We do have matlag, and Im not the type of person who live on cupramen and toast (which though is the case with about half the other population in the house) but its not the fact that the food aint "fun" (how you now define fun food) but it is fiberless and karada ni warui as we say. And the fact that Im a vegetarian that eats fish (but no sushi) doesnt make it that easy to join in with others ;P Anyways. Enough about food. Im getting bored about complaining about it to be honest, and Ive realized I just have to take it. Eventually Ill return home.

So. What have happened since last time we spoke? Oh yes, we have had yet another week at school with yet another bunch of lessons and lectures. The last one 2 hours about something o.O He started to talk about the heart and brain and how its connected and how the mechanisms work and such. I didnt really catch the meaning of it, but I woke up a bit in the middle when he talked about Edgar A. Poe and insanity and what it does to peoples creativity. Then he lost me again.
Next tuesday we are having a Noh-class. And some day next week Im going to go to Morera again. Its said to be some huge sale over there right now, and some of my classmates are there as we speak. Maybe they can fill me in on if its worth it or not.

Wednesday night the tutors had brought the movie Laputa that some of us watched (some half asleep though) after we finished our homework. A late night and an early morning the next day. But it was a really sweet movie, so I found it worth it. ^^

Yesterday we went to a nearby Isakaya and I was just coming with as company, but I ended up having to pay 500 yen for an appertife that they didnt even ask if we wanted. Strange japanese people. o.O Anyways. I think it was for the best that I went outside the house last night though.

So. Today. No lessons and nothing particular I have planned to do. I guess Ill just take it easy, maybe read something and see what the evening brings.

Tomorrow (as I said) we will have our midsummer party and on sunday I have plans on going to the internetcafe and upload some pictures at resedagboken. Took some yesterday at a Really creepy moth (or so we believed it was) that I at first took for a white bat because it was so big and flew so fast.

Well. Until we meet again.
Enjoy your summer and I will do my best at enjoying mine.

(and btw, Im not Really as melancholy as I might sound sometimes. I guess Im just really good at getting things sound worse then they are, to get them out of my system)

The last week.

This, my sister, is Entirely for you!
The two kanjis in the yellow says (translated each by itself, true Ingela style) Reason, and Try. Meaning (true Ingela style) Reason to try.
The Katakana below reads miito, meaning Meat.
Therefor. Reason to try meat.
The green kanjis below (followed by red prices) means first Big person, and secondly Little person.
So. What can we make of this!?
Well. 1 km to the right we have a reason to try meat. And what reason is that!? Well, you can buy a Big person for 1500 yen, which is about 100 kronor. And a small person for 900 yen, which is about 60 kronor.
So. Go for it. Try some delicious Japanese meat. ;D
(Oh systra mi, jag är så morbid ibland)

Well well. Something for everyone else right?!
This week I've done SO much stuff! (Come back, I neeed stuff!!!)
Monday: My first encounter with a really creepy japanese insect (trust me, I've had a few since last monday ;)
I was about to go shower (at about 11 at night) and I didn't have my glasses on. And something big, black and remarkably resembling one of those cute ashballs from monoke (among others) ran right across the floor!
But, because my lack of eyesight I couldn't see what it was Exactly, so. The mystery still remains.
Tuesday: Barbeque party.
Wednesday: Me, Jonas and Filip found a huge shoppingmall after school (thanks to Yoshi) that lay Outside the maps vincinity.
Lots and lots of ricefields on the way, and an hour bikeride back to where we live. Must go back someday. Found some presents there I'd like to buy. ^^
In the evening, firefly observation. So beautiful! But my mood was kind of low, so all the beauty accentuated my melancholy. But it was nice. I'll post some pictures at resedagboken. Go watch, go watch!
Thursday: (my last blog was from thursday I believe) so there you can read. Melancholy and rain and gay love. A very interesting day.
Friday: Lecture about japanese economy. I'm not at all interested in economy in any country or form (besides spending money on stuff (se above quotation)) so that was kind of boring.
Later in the afternoon we biked back to school for some soccer. I just felt I needed to get outside and do Something, but I wasn't supposed to play. Just take some pictures and watch.
But then I felt Soooo restless so I just couldn't sit still any longer. I even made a goal (yeah, I'm so fucking great ;) )
Anyways, afterwards we went home, hit the showers and got ready for some heavy shit karaoke.
In Japan, you rent a whole room, a private area where you and your friends can scream as falsely as you might like (and need) for 6 hours. But because of the early morning and soccer game, I didn't stay longer than 3 am. Which is quite long, if you ask me. ;)
We tried to sing some Abba (just for the sake of it) and I tried to charm the audience with Closer, Manson and Björk (and some disney) but which of none was appreciated. Gee, I wonder why. ;)
Saturday: Came out of bed at 11 in the morning. A bit late, but still okey. At 3, me, Filip, Anna and Ellen went down to Gifu city for some look-around, and shopping. Found this HUGE 100yenstore that I'm going back to someday (when my head feels a bit clearer) and some pretty neat shoes that I wanted to buy. High platue and black and red vinyl shaft.
Even though they were only 5000 yen, I felt like it would be one of these "oh my god I want them" investments that later just live in the closet anyway because I never find time to wear them. Darn I say, if I were a rich man.
Sunday: Plans were to take out my dreads and go to the internetcafe. I did neither.
We had some Ryugakulove world cup instead. Dodgeball, soccer and basketball. My team lost (yeay) but we got the coolest prices! Maybe I'll post a picture of it someday, but to say the least, det var Fett.
Afterwards we had a barbeque and I ate Yakisoba. Mums I say.

Today: So we have come to this. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning. And I sure as hell didn't want to go to school. But I did both of them. Had my lessons and was harrased by some svartåänder while having lunch.
Went to Masa and bought a hat. Not a very good one to wear in the summer, but If I'm going to climb mount Fuji I will need some warm clothes. And I could as well climb mount Fuji with style. ;P
Planning on re-booking my planeticket home to the 8th instead. Save two night. Might be an idea to think about.

Well. Have to update my swedish blog as well.
Until next time. Ki o tsukete.

Puss o kram.

BTW. I might not miss a lot, but one thing I Do miss, with all my heart and body (especially) is
Food! Onaka ga TOTTEMO kowashite iru!!!
Min mage är så JÄVLA trasig!
Gawdh vad jag hatar det här landets mat. =//
Jag vill hem till det förlovade landet av fullkornspasta och billig frukt!
GE MIG!!!!!!

Something is killing me. But what!?

Yup. Have a lecture in about 20 minutes. Not even sure Im allowed to sit on blogger, but at the moment Im not to sure I really care about that.

Anyways. Yesterday the rainy season began. I now understand why its called the rainy season, but it hell wasnt a very warm rain (that some of my dear sempais dared to claim)
Anyways. I survived. Rain dries off and becomes sunshine eventually.
Lets say this morning.

Warm as hell today. This weather really confuses me.

Saw my first proof yesterday that gay people actually exist in this country. I was at the nearby shoppingmall with Kuma and saw two girls sneakingly holding eachothers hands. Not the way two friends can do, but in a lovers way.
I smiled all the way out in the rain. Where I (again) started to groan and mutter.

I should go to the internetcafe and post some pictures. But Ill guess Ill do that sunday. Im thinking of making sundays my days of internetcafeeing.

Me and Kuma also found a pool that we are thinking of buying together with the rest of our classmates.
And I have bought myself a new mp3player. Finally some music to rest my mood on.

Im sure I had something else I was supposed to write down. But I cant really figure it out right now. Maybe Ill return after class when Ive checked my journal to see if it was something of importance.

The japanese is improving. Slowly slowly.

Some pictures..

Hehe. I found some pictures that Björn uploaded to his website and I just Had to steal some. ;)

This is a Very nice image of me on the plane to Nagoya. ;P And yes, that's a piece of Dread going through my nose. ;)

This is me in the hyakuenshop, with a very nice bag saying "It is fine. I want to go play somewhere"

This is the ten-man pyramide we built during some boring moments. ;P There's also a one-man, three-man and six-man pyramide, but I wasn't in them so I decided not to publish them. ;D

That's Yoshi on the top btw! Yoshi rules. ;D

And this is Us! All the tutors and students at the welcome party! Names and descriptions might come up now that I have a camera of my own to harras everyone with. ^^

And that was it folks! Just don't forget to read my other post from today because you got dazzled by all the pictres. ;)

A rainy sunday.

Look sis!! Rullpizza!!
We found this (very very tiny) rullpizza in Nagoya when we sat down for some lunch. I just Had to have it.
So systra mi, rullpizza is no longer available only in Umeå, even though I must say that the Rullpizza there slår Nagoyas med hästlängder!!


Also, I would like to answer Hjalmars question.
No. Ellen is Not the place to go when your sick, she's the one who Got sick. Maybe my bad english couldn't formulate that sentence correctly, but that's what I meant. ;)

Anyways. Been some days since my last post, and a lot of things have happened. Luckily, I've written a journal by hand so I just have to translate it and re-type it here.

So. Where to begin!?

I believe I'll just try to post the things I've written in my journal. Momentarily thoughts of anything and nothing.

Everything in this country smells like sushi. Not fish-sushi, but soy-sushi. (I connect the smell of soy with sushi) or something alike. So you don't have to associate badly when I say that even my towel smelled like sushi the other day.

And I hate the fact that you're allowed to smoke at this internetcafe. It doesn't feel like a very good idea then to stay very long. =/ And I want to update this blog properly so you actually have something to lay your time on. ^^

OCH DOM ÄCKLIGA JAPANERNA SITTER OCH NYSER!!
(läs: Ingela tycker inte om folk som nyser)

Anyways. Bought my camera this morning. Went to Nagoya yesterday just to realize that they don't have international guarantee anywhere in this country, and to find out that the price was 10.000 yen more.
So I just bought a memorycard and a cameracase. Just to go back to Yamada denki here in Gifu to find out that their new drive this week Also was to increase the price, BUT give you 10.000 yen on a pointcard for discount on your Next purchase.
I even wrote a nice little poem about it yesterday evening.
Jag skulle vilja ha en plats här där ångesten inte är så stor
Jag skulle vilja ha en plats där japanska poängsystem icke bor

Yeah, I was kind of fucked up yesterday. ;P
But I went down to Yamada this morning anyways and bought my camera. Jonas said he could buy my pointcard and buy his Ipod with it.
It's a very nice black Olympys Sp-350.
So now I just have to take some pictures and figure out how I can upload the images here. :P
The manual however is in japanese, so it's learning by doing on the menu. ;)

And oh! Hopefully I'll get the picture of my injury up as soon as I can steal it from Björns computer.
The first day (I don't believe I've told you this yet) I fell with my bike. I was just going to check if the saddle and everything was okey in hight and when I stopped the bike continued and I made a very impressive roll around on the courtyard!? (det var en massa grus iaf)
And the Japanese worried to death (or well, almost at least ;) And now I have two very nice waveshaped scars with a nice bluish frame around them on my right calf. Kind of easthetic. I might be morbide, but they actually have a nice shape. I wonder if it will be a remaining scarification. ;)

Och inte nog med att japanerna ska röka här, de ska Låta en massa när de gör det också.

And yes, this blog will be a place where you can read All about my complains and BS that goes around in my head. ;)

Another thing I've noticed is that they only have coldwater everywhere besides the shower. The sinks in the kitchen indicates that there should be warmwater, but I haven't suceeded in finding it yet.
And the fact that public toilets are free (and fresh) so far is a huge plus.

I found a huge shoestore and tried to find a pair of low sandals, but the ones that actually was comfortable and good-locking wasn't available in my size. And shoesizes are divided in 4 sizes. S, M, L and LL. And LL is Just about my size, at least when it comes to open sandals.
But I've found really nice porrskor (you know what that means sis ;P)
The context of this is that I still haven't found another pair of shoes.

Anyways. We've found ourselves to the hyakuenshop we're I will shop a lot at the end of this visit (different kind of krimskrams.. I like krimskrams)

I just have to keep my economyplan so I have some money left for Tokyo. o_O
It's not that much fun that I have to count my coins (I guess that's a figure of speech in swedish?) but what can I do!?
If someone wants to make a donation you're more than welcome. ;)

Another reflection is that bikelanes are non-existant. And me on a bike is lethal. At least for me. ;)
I guess I'll have to ride the ambulance at Some point this stay. ;D I'm very good at ignoring all kind of cartraffic. ;D

And I've bought my denshi Jisho now. A very neat little white Canon, caged in an even nicer orange case. I'm very happy with it, even though I haven't used it very much yet. o_O
Maybe that will come with time.

Yepp yepp.
We've arrived at fridays happenings (going forward ey)
All morning we spent doing practically nothing, but at 4.30 we were put on a bus and driven to school. There we got free food and drinks and had to hold Jikoshokais in a microphone in front of everyone.
And STILL, I haven't found a Japanese who knows what Taido is! BUT! (Sister, happy happy, joy joy) Timor have trained Taido some years ago. Though he's only 6th kyuu, he has agreed on training with me and I will teach him all I know and remember and at the end of my visit we will go a match him and me.
Björn will take care of all the betting. ;)
I also tried to teach some of Tutors ebi-geri with various results. I did the moves, Timor did the talking. ^^

He also brought a playstation with Soul Calibur 3, so now he's officially my hero here in Gifu. :D
And another fett najs fighting game that I (of course) don't recall the name of. But I will look into it and post it later on. I just have to get better at it. :P

They also forced me to eat Natto (after I fled 2 times up to my room) but I only took one bean and let the hashis go far down my throat until I dropped it and swallowed. No toungetouching, no taste. ;P Just slimy and disgusting and something I'll never do again (and hopefully the others are satisfied enough not to try to make me do it again)

Hm. Yesterdays journal is mostly ångest so I keep it secure inside my book I think o_O

And I've experienced the first encounter with a japanese moppe-gang. Not a very nice one, because I wanted to sleep.

And ebi-chan (my nickname that Björn has given me) is also a nickname of a semi-famous model here in Japan. Cool, I thought, until I learned What she was a model for.
*drumroll*
She's a model for McDonalds Ebi-burger.
Yeay

And sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here.
I tried to talk to a Tutor this morning. I woke up early and she came in to eat her breakfast. So I thought that hm, maybe it will be easier to have a conversation when you're alone. But hell no, I'm as käss in japanese even when I don't have other people around me making me nervous.

Hopefully that will get better.

So. Now my journal came to and end and we're at this present moment. Björn is skyping right next to me and I'm thinking of flirting a bit with him to get some words with someone back home. It would feel quite nice in this present state.

Otherwise I have to find a yuubinkyoku and buy some stamps.

On my way home I will try to visit K's denki to look for a better cameracase and maybe stop by the hyakuen shop and try to buy some temporary happiness.

And don't worry, this melancholy is överkomlig. I'm not as depressed as I sound, I'm just a girl.
In a day or two I will be my normal Genki self again.

Over and out.

And btw. EVERYTHING in Japan comes with Green-tea flavour o_O

Gifu is tha shit!

Or maybe not.

Just found ourself an internetcafe. So I might be able to update you more frequently from now on. And MAYBE my english will improve at the same speed as my nihongo. Who knows!?
I feel that I use this language way to little.

Anyways. Today we had our guidance around the Universityarea. We now know how to find stuff like the library, the minisupermarket, the classrooms and the place where sick people go. (Read: Ellen)
She got bitten this morning by a very hayai long thingy with lots of legs which I dont recall the english name for.

We`ve met with our tutors, and Hjalmar, you know Timor!? People seem to think you two look alike, and I just Can`t see it. Maybe it`s just me? And while I`m at it. It`s fucksing strange that some (I say some, I believe there must be at least One hotel that allows women) capsule hotels doesn`t allow women.

Anyways. We also have Yoshi, a swedishstudent that`s a good gateway to overcome our fear of speaking Japanese. I mean, he`s as bad in swedish that we are in Japanese ;P

Later today we`re off to the hyakuen-shop here in Gifu. I have to buy a mirror for my room (after all, I have my Vanity-bracelet on today) and a soapcase to spare my neccesär (what the hell is that in english!?)

And oh!

In swedish (sorry Martin)

Dagens komplimang: "Du ser ut som Predator" /Kuma-san
Maybe I`ll post a picture of it some other day (when I`ve bought my camera)
Which hopefully will be today or tomorrow (when I buy my denshi-jisho)

Och syster! Du kan maila mig på min vanliga mail.

Good luck kurassumeeto-Martin in Okazaki. Hope we can take a trip down there to visit you some day. ^^

I also have some secret plans of my own of some places to visit during a weekend or afterwards. I just have to figure out the best way to make it work.
And oh yeah! I have to find someplace to stay in Tokyo. The place I was recommended takes a vacation right about the time of my arrival.
Well well.

Now I have to do something else for a moment or two.

Current temperature: 30 degrees rising.
Feels great. ;)

But I must say, that the one thing I will complain about constantly for 2 months now is the foodprices. And especially the fruitprices!
I'm Definitely going on a fruitdiet when I return to Sweden!
Luckily (at least it's something) we've found cheap bananas.
Hmm.. I believe there will be a lot of posts about food in the future. ;)
And to connect a bit to my last blogging, today I Bought mushrooms for tonights dinner!
Ingelas kräsenhet degrederas (kan man säga så?) Asch, nu hävdar jag att man kan det. ;)

Take care everyone. I have to find some shoes (that's not hot-as-hell-skateshoes, to-big-flipflops or highheeled sandalettes)

See ya around.


BTW. A standard openingphrase from Japanese students go something like this; terebibangumi o mita. ;P
Which in english would be; I saw you on television..

Oooh feed my ego!

Another BTW. Jag och du, älskade syster, har en alldeles Ypperlig afton framför oss när jag kommer hem!
Vi SKA (läs: SKA) bänka oss framför tv:n och utvidga våra vyer framför en japansk Simba med tillhörande polare.
Mihihih!! Ja, du förstår nog.. ;)
Love you bästaste!

Nagoya by night.

Yes. Here I am.
Cozed up with Peter in a very interesting internetcafe somewhere in the heart of Nagoya.

All of our mates are sleeping in a capsule hotel. A place where women weren` t very welcome. So I went out on a quest to find a place of my own.　Behind Nagoya station we found a stroke of buisness hotels.
In the same pricerange as the capsule hotel.

And here are we all dressed up in the nice Kimonos provided by this very neat hotel. ;)


Ja Martin, allt ar drygt och man blir uttrakad i sitt eget huvud ibland. ;)
Oh mah gawdh, I`m even boring myself out tonight. I`m so very sorry, but my brain is kind of　mooshed (no, that`s not a word but describes fairly well my current state)

I haven`t bought my camera yet, but I found a place to buy nice flip-flops with hardcore skulls on them. Yeah, I`m so very metal　；)
Until I`ve found a camera of my own, I`m just going to borrow everyone elses and steal their photos. ;D

Anyways.

I guess the reason why this is to stiff and boring is because there is just So much to write about so I can`t decide what to write down first. And in what order and why and how to describe it.

Maybe I`ll just write some random stuff to try to explain.

The zebracrossings sound like birds when lit green.
I`ve eaten Mushrooms (!)
This internetcafe have cheaper pricing for girls.
I`ve met the cutest bear ever today.
And won a pink bathmat without almost doing anything.

Well. We only have this cozy little room for an hour. I better let Peter update his blog as well.

Your personal goddess, signing out!



Alskar dig ocksa systra mi!



btw.. For de som inte pallar min kassa engelska kommer jag aven forsoka blogga pa resedagboken.se under namnet Draconigena..