Heya..

Yupp. Still no motivation in updating you on Gujo or Kyoto. Those 2 are just to much to handle, so that will be when I come home.
BUT! I will update you on what has happened in my appartment at home. My sister have been living there over the summer and she just wrote me an email telling me about a spiderinvation happening right there and now.
So. Feels safe and fun. I just hope they all have died before I come home.
Im not too fond of spiders, especially not when they are trying to share my appartment.

Yuck!

Anyways. Still in Gifu. Will be here until Monday and then I will head out for a few days of adventures before I end up in Tokyo the 3rd.
Maybe Ill find a internetcafe or two along the way, maybe not. Time will tell.

Atm Im just going to fix some financial stuff and then Im going to buy my Seishun 18 kippu. And then Im off to the shopping mall, to find myself a new backpack and maybe some other stuff.

"I neeeeed stuff!!"

Anyways. Yesterday we took our first swim in Nagaragawa. And Man was it worth it! Me and Bjorn were just out for a biketour around Gifu when we found ourselves a beach where we at first just walked around bathing our feet. Though the feeling (in 35 something degrees) where just Too good to ignore, so we ended up taking a swim in what we had on. For my part it was a pair of jeans shorts. You do the math, I was wet all the way home. ;) Anyways, it was worth it all!

This wednesday we had our farewell party. Same place as the welcomeparty, and a nice buffe for my hungry stomach. We recieved a very nice diploma and a calligraphy from our teacher in Gujo. (we had a calligraphy lesson, and no need to say, but I kind of sucked at it ;D)
Anyways. I asked Kenji what it meant, and my interpretation of the whole was "die young" so. That was, nice ;P
The party at Gakugaiken afterwards was the best so far, it all ended up on the balchony where I and KitaDavid introduced the japanese to the concept of Ormgrop. We looked at the stars and fell asleep. Woke up at 5, watched the end of the sunrise and went to my futon and slept a couple of hours before I woke up again.
A great evening, indeed.

Yup. Now I want to eat my own version of Raggmunk, and get the hell out of here.

See ya around!

Uninspired.

So much have happened, but I have no will or power to write everythin down. Im uninspired and tired, have two sakubuns to write til tomorrow and stuff to prepare for Kyoto this thursday. I dont feel that I have the money to sit at the internetcafe with a swedish keyboard and I just want to go to Amica, look for donguri and then go home and sit in my room, listen to the rain and try to write my homework.

No one really forces me to sit here and actually write about my experiences, but I feel obligated to do so now when Ive created this blog for that soulpurpose. To update my loyal readers of my time here in Japan.

At least I can write a line or two of my stay in Gujou. Friday til Monday we had our homestay in Gujou. I had a great time with the family, and Im really glad I didnt stay at gakugaiken (as I wanted to friday morning)
I had my share of dancing (that I missed by not being able to go to Arvika this year) even though it was totally different and only 2 hours. But I wore a Yuukata and those Japanese wooden shoes I cant remember the name of, so it must count for something, right?

Anyways. Off to Amica. Just going to see if theres some pictures somewhere Id like to upload. I bet there is, but I forgot what and where.

Ah! Found this picture at Annas resedagbok (yes, Im allowed to steal it) and felt like tripping my ego (as always)
I look a bit like a doll, dont you think?

I wish I wish...

I don't know exactly what I've updated you with, but I'll try to write something new and exciting.
The koreans are here now and that's interesting. They've been here now for about a week, and they seem awfully nice and Björn might no longer be the oldest, but still our Ojiisan. ;)

So. What have happened?? We've been out on a whole lot of bikeadventures. Taking a lot of photos, and seen a lot of Gifu. And Gifu is Huge!
Mah Gawdh!

And my sister is on her way to Arvika now. I'm fett jealous. =/ I want to be there with her, but what can I do?? A bit far to go back just for those 5 days of darn fun. (but I want to, I really do)
Anyways. I got a present from her that makes it possible for me to be with her over her. Sometimes I wish I would have spent the summer in Malmö with her. But what's life worth if you just regret everything?

Last friday (7/7) we celebrated Tanabata. I don't feel like writing down the whole story behind Tanabata right now, but it's kind of sweet.
The tradition though says that you should chop down a tree and drag it inside, write whatever you might wish for on a colorful piece of paper and hang it in the tree. Very fun, but it took all day to figure out something to write.

Saturday we had the koreans welcomeparty. That was fun fun fun and I was Soooo pretty!! ^^ I don't know if I have a good picture of it on my camera, but I surely will try to find one.
After the teachers had gone home we took out the twister. And surely a lot of other things happened that evening, but I can't recall anything in perticular I would like to report.
Anyways. Had my first eye-to-eye fight with a mukade as well. Was just about to go to sleep when I saw a mukade trying to sneak up on my pillow.
I shrieked (like the true girl that I am) and went out to find the mukadespray (and found Prippu om the way) so I took the mukadespray, and with Kenji and Ai close behind I went back to my room. I don't really like killing things, so Prippu got to kill it for me. ^^ True girly-style. (hey, what can I say, I'm in Japan ;P)

Monday we went to Sumo in Nagoya. Very interesting! More interesting and fun than I had imagined 2 fat people fighting could be. ;)

Yesterday after school I had to go back to Gakugaiken to fetch my wallet I had forgotten. FETT jobbigt! But when I arrived I had recieved a package from my sister. It made my day, and I fed my hungry stomach with Zoo-sticks and smiled all the way back to school.
Did all the things I had to do, and went on a shoppingspree with Björn on the way back. So now I have some food, and we bought ingridents for the evenings dormparty.
I did my usual drink I always do when I feel like drinking something a bit more "party" at a party, and surely 7 litres of popcorn.
I made the T-shirt I've promised Yoshi all along and managed to get some dinner before everything started.
We were a bit late but at 6.30 I believe the whole thing was rolling. We went from room to room quite quickly (mostly because of the atsusa everywhere) and we found a piratetheme room, a shabby beerpub and the koreans who had made onigiris and fruitpunch for our hungry souls (not to forget, Ellen and Annas muffins and meatballs ;P)
At 9 somewhere I believe we've arrived at the last room. The airconditioned one. ;) All filled with pillows and the mysfaktor high and rising. The japanese girls also had a showoff of what country produced the best drag. I think Sweden won, and then came Japan and Korea took a very sad thirdplace (with No votes I think) maybe I can get some pictures of that out of my camera. One can hope!
People start to drop off at 10-11 and at 12 some get the brilliant idea of going to Karaoke. I decide to go to bed instead.
All and all a Very successful evening and everyone was as dead as the other this morning. YEAY for japanese classes. ^^

Bought myself a fat hamster today, and tonight it's sakubun time. Yeahoo!! (I don't wanna!!!!!)

Anyways. Resedagboken doesn't accept my photos, so I don't know what I should do.
Propably nothing, as always. ;)
The photos just have to wait til some other day.

This weekend we have our homestay at Guijo-hachiman. A bit scary, but I've made all my allergies clear today. They've realized that I'm allergic to Shrimp, not Tempura, and hopefully everything will be okey when I arrive this weekend.
But I'm a bit scared, cause the family had as a request that they "really would like a swedish girl) o_O Should I be afraid??

My head hurts and time is running out. Want to call home I think. At least try to. ^^

See ya around, and I'm sorry if I don't make any sense. ^^

The lekpark, the love. The meaninglessness of it all.

Well, today there`s just gonna be a lot of pictures for you. Have to get some shopping done and some preparation for the evenings dormparty, so no time for anything else. Maybe tomorrow, I have so much to tell!
Anyways. This is mostly for Linnea and my sister, but I thought you other guys would like to have a look as well! To begin with, we have the Huge playground that looks somewhat like Robinson (whit little signs on how to use everything as well, but I couldn`t care less about publishing it)
At first, we have my sneakphoto of a mother and her child playing. I don`t know if I`m supposed to publish it, but I`m gessing no one will recognize the two and sue me ;)

Next we have an overvview picture of some. Stuff ^^














And below, to my thrill and joy, we have, The Loop! YEAY!!!! ^^;;

Next we have some random stuff and the watchtower (from where I took the sneakphotos (sneaky ;)))



Here we have what I think is an arena for little children to fight in. Just like those dog (or cock) fight arenas where they fight til one or the other dies. I might be a bit morbide, but I`m absolutely positive that this is the case of it.
And I had another overviewphoto, but it dissappeared o.O Henna blogger!
Anyways.


Next we have something for my sister!
My own version of Rullpizza! The bottom was a bit thick and didn`t really bake through, but it was eatable. ;P
Next time I`ll let it bake a bit more.



And Finally, something for all!
This. Ehm. Very strange Kirin-cow!


And that was all for now. If I pallar I will upload some pictures at resedagboken and write a better update of my week tomorrow, but atm I`ll just leave it at this.
Have to buy some food as well. Have had no money for a couple of days and my fridge is empty.

Though my sister sent me Zoo-sticks today and made me happy happy ^^
Love to her!

The pictures from yesterday.

Well. This is me, at Masa, with a fresh baked... Bunny??

Me and Kuma could`t really decide wether it was a bunny or 2 fingers stuck up someones arse.

Anyhow. We ate it. And it was sweeet. All sugary and stuff, true Japan-style.

And this, my best Hannu, is entirely for you.

It`s a PanPanda. That says it all...

It's been a while..

Yup. It's been way to long since I last updated you guys.
I can say to my defense that it's been a very slow week. Almost nothing happened before friday. But friday. Ujujuj, I must say!
One of the best days so far in this country.

We took a slow morning, had a lecture at 10.30 about ceramics. Interesting. Afterwards we were put on a bus and had a onehour trip ahead of us.
What occured to me during the trip though was that everything in this country looks the same. It doesn't feel like you're actually leaving one town for another, but rather that the town extends to whatever place you're going to. Or that you drive around in circles in the same town. The buildings all look alike, the construction of the town is the same as the last and you can't tell anything apart.
Or at least I can't.
Anyways. We stopped at a place where they produce some kind of ceramics. They had a room filled with rokuro (in japanese, in swedish it's called drejskiva, and in english I have No clue!)
It was So much fun!!!! So relaxing to do something with your hands and get away from the studies.
At first we were supposed to select two objects we'd like to do. I took a mug and a bowl. Then we sat down at a prepared rokuro and there were 3 young men (kind of interesting, and no one really figured out how they ended up there, but they were good at what they were doing) to help us. At first I was supposed to do the mug. It didn't end up anything like the prototype, but I liked it so much better that way.
The bowl I also took some artistic liberties with, that weren't too appreciated. When I felt like I was done, the nice guy came by and asked (once again sceptically) if I were happy with the result. I nodded enthusiastically (I'm going blind here trying to stare my way to the right spelling o_O) and he didn't look all to happy about it.
As the nice girl I am, I tried to correct my "mistake" by rearranging it a bit, which just led to a total dissaster. The bowl collapsed and he looked at my smiling "kowachatta" with a look that Could have said something like this "gawdh, jefla tjej alltså" but I don't know.
He came by and took the mess away and said that well, at least there's some clay left so we (read: him) can make a small bowl for you.
So he almost did all the work and left the last to me. I don't know if it will be big enough to eat anything out of, but hopefully it will be useful for Something.
And I hope my teamuh doesn't shrink to much in the owen. A teamug is Supposed to be huge!

Well. After that we was placed on the bus once again and driven away to a place where we got to paint on plates and mugs and stuff. I took a plate, and since I'm not to well known as a good painter I took out all my ångest and made.. well. I honestly don't know what to call it, but it's commonly known as the Ångest-tallrik. I named it Ebi though, and after further visitation I realized that I by accident painted a shrimp in the middle of hit.
Heyhey.

In the evening people were scheduled to go to a nearby karaokebar. I, together with Filip, Björn and Jonas, felt that I didn't have enough money for a pleasure like that, so we stayed at Gakugaiken playing lovesoap. A cardgame where you have a few characters as in say big brother or similar soapshows, and every "week" one contestant is voted out of the house. It was darn much fun, but at 2 a.m. we felt that we started to drift away and our concentration sank low and we decided that I had won.

Just recalled. We had a Noh-demonstration last tuesday. Was kind of interesting, but I mostly looked at their clothes. I wanted to touch them, and see how they were made and steal them home for my own. But I didn't.

Back to saturday.
Woke up early, 7 to be exact. Didn't feel like going up, so I slept to 8. Didn't feel to wake up then either so I dreamt scary dreams until 9 and gave up.
Waited for the others to wake up and told Manaka I didn't want to go to make Batik. She was a bit sad about the fact, but later I found out that they only had blue color, and I don't like blue. So it was for the best.
And besides. The reason I told Manaka I should come in the first place was just because I wanted something to do, and be a bit creative. But my creativity was satisfied with the rokuro, and Björn decided to not go as well. And Jonas and Filip didn't go to Nagoya so we went up to Gifu-Jo instead (pictures at Resedagboken)
We took the steap way up. Maybe a 40-45 minutes climb. Well at the top we went inside the castle. Lots and lots of different cool stuff and a magnificant view. Unfortunately the weather wasn't as cleared as we would have liked it, but still it was pretty amazing.
Took the "meditation" road back down. A bit easier way and maybe 30 minutes. The way down is always easier (gee, I wonder why ;P)

Afterwards I was supposed to go to a concert with the schoolorchestra, but neither Björn nor me felt very genki. So we went home, took a shower and started our evening of doing absolutely nothing.
Everyone was rather ungenki around dinnertime, and Roger, Peter, Simon and Harnesk had gone to Nagoya for some nighttime fun.
Kenji arrived a bit afterwards with his mood high as ever. Followed by some non-tutors we suspected that they definitely didn't want to sit around doing nothing all evening, and we ended up having the best spontaneous party so far.
After some warming up I came up with the brilliant idea of making a Twister, and so we did. Not the most pretty Twister I've seen, but fully functional. A very nice way of coming a bit closer to our japanese friends.
At 3 a.m. someone got the idea of (once again) go to karaoke. I didn't follow (this night either) and Ellen, Jonas, and Filip didn't as well. We stayed at Gakugaiken and helpt cleaning up a bit.

The morning after I woke up at 11. Late to be me, but I felt great. Did some laundry and went down for breakfast at 12. At 2 I got Björn out of bed and we went down to Valor for some shopping. Bought myself a hairdryer, that now when I think about it wasn't at all worth the 1500 yen I paid for it. Anyways. Did some weekly shopping and went back home. I was the only one genki enough to actually want to do anything (one of the positive, but yet negative effect of not drinking alcohol)

And since I haven't written in a while, I've found The fetaste playground Ever!
It's like Fångarna på fortet, but Outside!
Climbingnets All over the place, and even a Loop!! I just Have to go there someday! But as I said, noone is as genki as I am (well, Jonas is, but he never wants to go) and to go to a japanese playground to play all by yourself is a bit creepy o_O

Well. Hm. Yesterday we went to Masa and tried to find a white shirt for me. It's hard when you're not the average sized japanese, so I went home with a package of frozen vegetables.

Today the korean people has arrived, and it will be interesting to go back to Gakugaiken and have a look. I'm really curious about them!!!

And I've found my paradise over here. Thanks to Johanna-sempai I've rediscovered Amica. I thought about going there the first week or so, but I never did and it fell out of my mind.
Then she reminded me and I found kikärtor, mungbeans, and kilos of raisins!
A very neat store, me likey very much ^^

And Blogger seems to hate me today. I can't upload any images, which kind of Sucks big time!
Ah well. You'll just have to wait til next time.

Take care everyone!!

See you soon.