I just got the feeling (well actually i realised it when i visited my friends' site and she had just converted to English, http://arekusresor.blogspot.com/) that it’s quite stupid to be writing in Swedish on this blog of mine, since none of the people i actually meet here can read any of it! and that’s a shame! right?
The address and name of the blog will stay the same, at least for a while tough. It simply means “Studying in Japan”
So from now on I’ll be writing in English, hopefully some of the classmates that knows English will appreciate it at least!
I’ve been here for just a little bit over 2 months now and i feel quite settled! It’s allot of homework everyday so, as I've already mentioned, don’t have that much free time, but that doesn’t put my mood down, i still enjoy everyday here in Kyoto. The teachers have started to warn us about the “newcomer curve” or whatever you want to call it, in which new students arrive, adapt, feel fine and enjoy their stay in Japan, but after a while the mood skydives and you start to feel really homesick, tired of learning Japanese and just feel generally bad. Luckily I’m not there yet and i hope i never will! But off course what goes up must come down (or should i put it “what goes down must come up?”... hmm) the mood will return to the state of feeling happy and fine and hopefully never go down again!
Speaking of fine and what’s not fine, my camera is starting to throw in the towel and i guess it will die on me any day now. It’s something with the lens again, just like it were before we got it fixed back in Sweden. So if it dies i will not be able to take any photos or make any new movies. So lets all cheer on the little machine to hang in there? okay?!
In other news i just realised that i have completely forgot to mention that i teach Swedish to a Japanese girl named Haruka. I put up a ad in the university a few weeks ago and this girl answered and wanted to learn Swedish, she is doing great! and last time she even managed to say 7 in Swedish which is really hard for foreigners to pronounce, I’ve been told!
I’s really funny teaching your native language to foreigners, you start realising things about it that you would have never thought of otherwise, what parts that are really good, what parts that are just plain stupid and what parts that’s REALLY hard to explain! and in the meantime you get some more Japanese training! I hope she finds it interesting and educational and wants to continue!
Hey, this showed up to be quite allot, my intention was just to say i was going to start writing in English, but hey, if the river flows, why not jump in it Viking-style and just go with it!
About Viking style, Me and Dan have during the past few days been scaring people with Swedish candy. I brought some good old “Hockey Pulver” which i got a few days before my departure to Japan by a friend.
And Dan brought “Djungelvrål” and “Lakrisal”. I can tell that from experience 99% of the people you offer a piece of one of these candies they will spit it out within 1 second and start to cry (especially Americans. yes, YOU Louis.) the remaining 1 percent is a Italian named Fabio. He is undergoing Viking training.
(Please send me some more of these tasty treats! and perhaps some big sized flip-flops to!)
I guess that’s all for this little update. Later tonight or tomorrow i will post some pictures of some Maiko-san we saw yesterday during a small festival. I’m just waiting for fellow Swede Peter to send them to me.
Over and out!
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