... blogging? should I? Or should I just leave this blog for what it is? my travel diary for the years I spent in Japan.
Since I've been getting mail from allot of people during these 2 years asking me questions about studying in Japan, I'm thinking it would be best to just leave it as it is, incase someone stumbles in and needs some questions answered. On the other hand it feels like a waste not to continue blogging here since, well, I've put allot of effort in this blog and would be fun to keep it going. Even if it turns to be a blog about my boring life in Sweden.
So what do you all say? Maybe I should just start a new blog?... ah the choices!
So yeah...
... I did leave Japanese soil! It could've gone really bad though, but I managed to avoid the problems with my attained super ninja skills! The first thing that could've gone horribly wrong was the ride to the Airport.
I accidentally noticed the shuttlebus infront if my house 30 minutes before the appointed time! I was on my way to buy me some breakfast when the guy just suddenly drove up infront of my house and tried to call me on my phone, since i did not longer have a working phone at that time it could have ended with either me missing my ride, or making the already stressed out driver wait for 30 minutes. So yeah, I had to skip breakfast and just throw myself, my bags and my suitcase straight to into the shuttlebus. Speaking of suitcases brings me to the next BIG problem I encountered, my suitcase just happened to be about 15 kilos overweight, and 15 kilos overweight is like nine billion trillion euro in overweight fee calculated by the clever people in the whole airport/airplane business. So at first we came up with the idea of sending it by boat thru the local post office at the airport, kinda troublesome having to sort thru my bag and packing it back in a box for shipping, but hey! It's allot better than paying the billions of trillions in overweight fee. When i got down to the post office it was of-course CLOSED... Not knowing what to do i went back to the check-in counter while counting my life savings... but lucky me we found this strange Chinese visa (since i was going via Beijing) I could get by just giving them my name and adress in Sweden, and what this visa did was to give me an extra 8 free of charge kilos to check in! So now i only had seven kilos to get rid of wich I did by rearranging stuff from the suitcase to my pockets and my carry on bags, ninja-style! So sweaty as a pig after all the hassle i finally got on the plane heading for beijing and then Thailand.
I had a great time in Thailand! felt really good being able see mim again without the middleman named Skype (no disrespect Skype, but sometimes... you know! We still love you!) We also had the honor of getting Yunjin, a Korean friend, over during the same time! Really nice seing her again too! We also met up with some of Thai friends during the trip. P'Jane, P'Por, and P'Pae! It was really great, thank you all!
So after 2 great weeks in Thailand I went back to Europe and sat my foot in Sweden for the first time in 2 years. The things I noticed first was this: It was cold, Arlanda has a ridiculously small International airport. There was warm water in the toilet, there were pretty tall people everywhere and they all spoke Swedish! I felt a bit disoriented. Right when i got back to my home I had a nice Easter dinner with my mom and siblings, it was a nice reunion dinner and it was really nice seing them all again! The day after I had a really nice "Welcome home" party with some friends, thank you Tommy and Karro for arranging it all!
And now here I am, still feeling like a lost foreigner even tough I've been back for almost 2 weeks now. I guess I'll just have to get used to thing all over again step by step! Now I'm waiting to a get a reply from the university I applied to just a couple of days ago, and if I'm lucky I'll get in, I can start studying again and even get my own place in just a few months. Until then I'll just have to stay here share a room with mom and look for some kind of work.
That'll do for now, see ya'll in a while!
I accidentally noticed the shuttlebus infront if my house 30 minutes before the appointed time! I was on my way to buy me some breakfast when the guy just suddenly drove up infront of my house and tried to call me on my phone, since i did not longer have a working phone at that time it could have ended with either me missing my ride, or making the already stressed out driver wait for 30 minutes. So yeah, I had to skip breakfast and just throw myself, my bags and my suitcase straight to into the shuttlebus. Speaking of suitcases brings me to the next BIG problem I encountered, my suitcase just happened to be about 15 kilos overweight, and 15 kilos overweight is like nine billion trillion euro in overweight fee calculated by the clever people in the whole airport/airplane business. So at first we came up with the idea of sending it by boat thru the local post office at the airport, kinda troublesome having to sort thru my bag and packing it back in a box for shipping, but hey! It's allot better than paying the billions of trillions in overweight fee. When i got down to the post office it was of-course CLOSED... Not knowing what to do i went back to the check-in counter while counting my life savings... but lucky me we found this strange Chinese visa (since i was going via Beijing) I could get by just giving them my name and adress in Sweden, and what this visa did was to give me an extra 8 free of charge kilos to check in! So now i only had seven kilos to get rid of wich I did by rearranging stuff from the suitcase to my pockets and my carry on bags, ninja-style! So sweaty as a pig after all the hassle i finally got on the plane heading for beijing and then Thailand.
I had a great time in Thailand! felt really good being able see mim again without the middleman named Skype (no disrespect Skype, but sometimes... you know! We still love you!) We also had the honor of getting Yunjin, a Korean friend, over during the same time! Really nice seing her again too! We also met up with some of Thai friends during the trip. P'Jane, P'Por, and P'Pae! It was really great, thank you all!
So after 2 great weeks in Thailand I went back to Europe and sat my foot in Sweden for the first time in 2 years. The things I noticed first was this: It was cold, Arlanda has a ridiculously small International airport. There was warm water in the toilet, there were pretty tall people everywhere and they all spoke Swedish! I felt a bit disoriented. Right when i got back to my home I had a nice Easter dinner with my mom and siblings, it was a nice reunion dinner and it was really nice seing them all again! The day after I had a really nice "Welcome home" party with some friends, thank you Tommy and Karro for arranging it all!
And now here I am, still feeling like a lost foreigner even tough I've been back for almost 2 weeks now. I guess I'll just have to get used to thing all over again step by step! Now I'm waiting to a get a reply from the university I applied to just a couple of days ago, and if I'm lucky I'll get in, I can start studying again and even get my own place in just a few months. Until then I'll just have to stay here share a room with mom and look for some kind of work.
That'll do for now, see ya'll in a while!
Last week: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Hey there! Got a little busy over here so I had no time to sit down and blog!
Anyway, as I said in my previous post I was going to have a "bye bye" party on Wednesday, which I had. It wasn't as painful as last year but still, having to part ways with people you have been spending a great deal of your time here in Japan with is always sad. Even tho I still had (I still have... :( ) a cold, I managed to stay until around 4 in the morning before I went home and fell a sleep in an explosion of snot and rusty throat sounds.
The next day, yesterday, Thursday I met up with 2 japanese friends I kinda lost contact with 1 year or so ago, but we wanted to say our goodbyes before i left anyway, so it was a short but nice get together where we talked about some old memories and wished each other good luck for the future. After that I headed straight downtown to do some gift shopping with the little money I have left, got a few ideas of what to buy and to who, but I can tell you all right now... ALL of you won't be getting gifts as this is an impossibility, so sorry in advance. And for you who actually do get one, they'll probably not be that good so... sorry to guys too! Haha! So after doing some gift scouting i hooked up with Dan, Mai and Dan's friend Kristoffer who's here visiting, and had a tasty Okonomiyaki dinner before saying goodbye to Dan and his friend for now since they'll be going to Tokyo and won't be back until I've already left Japan. So thanks for these 2 years Dan! see you in Sweden!
Today, Friday, I've been cleaning and trying to pack my bags, not going that well... I suck at packing. Later on I'm gonna have yet another goodbye dinner with Taku, a Japanese friend, Elie, Kalle, Mai and hopefully Luca too. If i can get a hold of the little bastard.
Tomorrow... the last day. I guess I'll just run around like crazy doing all the things i've forgotten up until tomorrow. Probably die from a panic attack and never even leave Japanese soil. Wish me luck.
Anyway, as I said in my previous post I was going to have a "bye bye" party on Wednesday, which I had. It wasn't as painful as last year but still, having to part ways with people you have been spending a great deal of your time here in Japan with is always sad. Even tho I still had (I still have... :( ) a cold, I managed to stay until around 4 in the morning before I went home and fell a sleep in an explosion of snot and rusty throat sounds.
The next day, yesterday, Thursday I met up with 2 japanese friends I kinda lost contact with 1 year or so ago, but we wanted to say our goodbyes before i left anyway, so it was a short but nice get together where we talked about some old memories and wished each other good luck for the future. After that I headed straight downtown to do some gift shopping with the little money I have left, got a few ideas of what to buy and to who, but I can tell you all right now... ALL of you won't be getting gifts as this is an impossibility, so sorry in advance. And for you who actually do get one, they'll probably not be that good so... sorry to guys too! Haha! So after doing some gift scouting i hooked up with Dan, Mai and Dan's friend Kristoffer who's here visiting, and had a tasty Okonomiyaki dinner before saying goodbye to Dan and his friend for now since they'll be going to Tokyo and won't be back until I've already left Japan. So thanks for these 2 years Dan! see you in Sweden!
Today, Friday, I've been cleaning and trying to pack my bags, not going that well... I suck at packing. Later on I'm gonna have yet another goodbye dinner with Taku, a Japanese friend, Elie, Kalle, Mai and hopefully Luca too. If i can get a hold of the little bastard.
Tomorrow... the last day. I guess I'll just run around like crazy doing all the things i've forgotten up until tomorrow. Probably die from a panic attack and never even leave Japanese soil. Wish me luck.
Last week: Tuesday.
So today has been the second day of my final week and It's been lovely weather outside all day, so of course I've gotten a soar throat, headache and a running nose and thus spent this day to by being in my room sleeping and playing video-games! This week is starting out reeeal good!
Anywho! Tomorrow there's gonna be a big "bye bye party" downtown and I hope I will be feeling better by then! Wouldn't wanna say goodbye to friends AND being sick...
See ya tomorrow for my third daily update!
Anywho! Tomorrow there's gonna be a big "bye bye party" downtown and I hope I will be feeling better by then! Wouldn't wanna say goodbye to friends AND being sick...
See ya tomorrow for my third daily update!
Last week: Monday.
Yup! Down to the last week. Hard to believe huh?
Today, monday, it's been raining all day, so I've been spending the whole day packing and playing "Heavy Rain" a game I got for my birthday by the kind Frenchman. A nice way to spend a day I guess!
I've also been trying to figure out what i need to buy and bring with me! I wish I could buy all my friends and family some cool souvenirs, but to be honest I'm getting low on both space in my bags and money! So if you want anything specific please tell me. If not, I'll do my best!
Over and out for today, see ya'll in tomorrow's blog post!
Today, monday, it's been raining all day, so I've been spending the whole day packing and playing "Heavy Rain" a game I got for my birthday by the kind Frenchman. A nice way to spend a day I guess!
I've also been trying to figure out what i need to buy and bring with me! I wish I could buy all my friends and family some cool souvenirs, but to be honest I'm getting low on both space in my bags and money! So if you want anything specific please tell me. If not, I'll do my best!
Over and out for today, see ya'll in tomorrow's blog post!
Pics from Tokyo!
Visited the Frenchman's friend's bar before we got on the bus to Tokyo. The bus was horrible.
Maybe i've been in Japan for too long, but Tokyo wasn't "all that" just felt like a normal Japanese town to me! Oh well I had fun!
Maybe i've been in Japan for too long, but Tokyo wasn't "all that" just felt like a normal Japanese town to me! Oh well I had fun!
Tokyo!
