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!

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