A new year has begun. Time for more studies and new adventures.
My first adventure this year was to spend New Years eve at Hiro's families house to spend a real Japanese お正月 (osyougatsu). We had a family dinner on the 31th and just before midnight we had お屠蘇 (otoso) to cleanse ourselves for the new year. After midnight me and Hiro went for 初詣 (hatsumoude).
On the first we had お節料理 (osechiriyouri) and had a really relaxing day!
My second adventure for the year is that I will move during this month, wish me luck!
M
onsdag 5 januari 2011
torsdag 25 november 2010
mental growth
Soooo, long time no see. As usual I might say.
It is actually amazing to thing back and realise how fast time passes.
It is now a little bit over a year since I stopped drinking alcohol I realised when I had my birthday the other day. I could think back on the last year and realise that I haven't been drinking much at all the last year and I am really proud of myself. *patting my own head*
As it now happens I have a new problem in front of me that also means mental growth for me. I know it will go well because I know myself and I know that this has to happen in order for me to be truly happy. When I think back of my time here in Japan I am so grateful that I got the chance to make this trip. It has made me stronger and if I had never met all the people I have met here, seen all the things that I've seen or been let into the Japanese culture like I have I would never have been able to make these changes. Thank you Japan, thanks to all of my friends here in Japan and everyone who has gone back or gone to a new place in life! You are all a part of this new My.
What I need now is to continue to cultivate the plants and seeds that I have in my mental garden and the future will be brighter than ever the past was.
The best is yet to come, smile big, live with passion.
So from a slightly spiritual My to all of you,
Happy Thanksgiving!
M
It is actually amazing to thing back and realise how fast time passes.
It is now a little bit over a year since I stopped drinking alcohol I realised when I had my birthday the other day. I could think back on the last year and realise that I haven't been drinking much at all the last year and I am really proud of myself. *patting my own head*
As it now happens I have a new problem in front of me that also means mental growth for me. I know it will go well because I know myself and I know that this has to happen in order for me to be truly happy. When I think back of my time here in Japan I am so grateful that I got the chance to make this trip. It has made me stronger and if I had never met all the people I have met here, seen all the things that I've seen or been let into the Japanese culture like I have I would never have been able to make these changes. Thank you Japan, thanks to all of my friends here in Japan and everyone who has gone back or gone to a new place in life! You are all a part of this new My.
What I need now is to continue to cultivate the plants and seeds that I have in my mental garden and the future will be brighter than ever the past was.
The best is yet to come, smile big, live with passion.
So from a slightly spiritual My to all of you,
Happy Thanksgiving!
M
torsdag 17 juni 2010
finally (piercings)
Sooooo, last week, Friday, I FINALLY (about a exactly year later) changed my tongue-piercing from the first one that you use when the tong is swollen. My tongue had been swollen unusually long and I was worrying about it a lot. During autumn I stopped drinking alcohol completely to let it heal but I thought it was still swollen. For the last six months-ish I've been wondering if I should take it out or not cuz it was hurting a little bit now and again. Then a month ago I went with my friend Kyoko to get her a tongue-piercing too. Back at the same studio a year later I ask my piercer what I should do about my swollen tongue. I get the answer;
"It's not swollen, you should change the piercing"
So why it was hurting was because it was too long and because of that moving around.... Do you think I felt silly?
(HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is what happens when you postpone things and worry for nothing..)
While we are on the subject of piercing I come to think of my new work. That's right! I'm now a part-timer at a French restaurant about 5 minutes from my home. Yay me!
Why I came to think of this is that I have to take of my nose-piercing and all of the rings except one. Compared to the general public I'm a quiet pierced person. Some of the girls in my class haven't even pierced their ears cuz it's scary...? But if I compare to my piercer I'm a beginner, and if he compares to the people he met at the piercing-tattoo-convent he went to in US recently HE is nothing. There are so many different people in the world.. <3
Last Thursday I was a model for my 先輩 at their fashion-show (senpai, a word for people that are a year above you in school or has been working longer at the same work, you can also use if as a "senpai in life"). It's the second time that I'm on the runway now and I've done a couple of hair-modelling-gigs too. Next Monday I will be in a fashion/make-up photo shoot. It's a lot, a lot of fun and I hope to get more and more gigs from now on too.
Wells, I'll get back to my Starbucks-coffee and studies.
M
"It's not swollen, you should change the piercing"
So why it was hurting was because it was too long and because of that moving around.... Do you think I felt silly?
(HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is what happens when you postpone things and worry for nothing..)
While we are on the subject of piercing I come to think of my new work. That's right! I'm now a part-timer at a French restaurant about 5 minutes from my home. Yay me!
Why I came to think of this is that I have to take of my nose-piercing and all of the rings except one. Compared to the general public I'm a quiet pierced person. Some of the girls in my class haven't even pierced their ears cuz it's scary...? But if I compare to my piercer I'm a beginner, and if he compares to the people he met at the piercing-tattoo-convent he went to in US recently HE is nothing. There are so many different people in the world.. <3
Last Thursday I was a model for my 先輩 at their fashion-show (senpai, a word for people that are a year above you in school or has been working longer at the same work, you can also use if as a "senpai in life"). It's the second time that I'm on the runway now and I've done a couple of hair-modelling-gigs too. Next Monday I will be in a fashion/make-up photo shoot. It's a lot, a lot of fun and I hope to get more and more gigs from now on too.
Wells, I'll get back to my Starbucks-coffee and studies.
M
tisdag 8 juni 2010
a year
Two days ago it was a year ago that Sweden had it's National Day, so naturally there was one this year too. More importantly for me it marked a huuuge change in my life. That day it was a year ago that I met Hiro the first time. So so so much has changed in this year and it's for the better.
When I think back of who I was and where I was in life this time last year I'm so happy for everything that has changed. <3
In school we have finished our first skirt and my skirt is now the one of the first ones on sale in Obra, the store our school has. We are at the moment making a blouse and I'm really excited about how it's going to turn out!
At the same time we have finished the designs for the dresses we are going to make after the blouses and that we will use in our fashion show the 7/31. By intion from me we are now making the fashion show a lot bigger than planned by the teachers. (we were supposed to have it in the lounge of the school and only for people in the school) Now things are looking really good and I'm freakishly psyked about how the result will be.
Now breakfast!
M
When I think back of who I was and where I was in life this time last year I'm so happy for everything that has changed. <3
In school we have finished our first skirt and my skirt is now the one of the first ones on sale in Obra, the store our school has. We are at the moment making a blouse and I'm really excited about how it's going to turn out!
At the same time we have finished the designs for the dresses we are going to make after the blouses and that we will use in our fashion show the 7/31. By intion from me we are now making the fashion show a lot bigger than planned by the teachers. (we were supposed to have it in the lounge of the school and only for people in the school) Now things are looking really good and I'm freakishly psyked about how the result will be.
Now breakfast!
M
lördag 15 maj 2010
how?
How do people do it? How do they keep in touch with people regularly? How do you know which ones are worth hanging on to? How do you see which relations are the important ones, the ones that will change your life and stay for ever? And how do you see when it's time to give someone up?
Since I came to Japan I've gone through a massive life changer. I'm starting to realise how important people are to me. Things that I didn't know about before (read: things I didn't think about before). How do I show them all appreciation? How can I show that I have changed and that I care now? I don't know what is expected from me and it makes me scared. What makes me even more scared is all the relations I realised that I, ME, MY, just trough in the bin because I was, just that, SCARED! Scared of people seeing me, would they like me? Am I good enough?
My subconscious has been a people-repellant. And now I have to start all over again.
But even though it's hard like hell and I'm ashamed and just wanna crawl back in again sometimes it's all worth it. Every time that I get that positive response back from something positive that I do. Maybe just a smile.
Yeah, I've wasted time and threw away good people in the bin BUT. I'm 20 and I'm changing.
Forgive me my sins, dears friends and family
M
Since I came to Japan I've gone through a massive life changer. I'm starting to realise how important people are to me. Things that I didn't know about before (read: things I didn't think about before). How do I show them all appreciation? How can I show that I have changed and that I care now? I don't know what is expected from me and it makes me scared. What makes me even more scared is all the relations I realised that I, ME, MY, just trough in the bin because I was, just that, SCARED! Scared of people seeing me, would they like me? Am I good enough?
My subconscious has been a people-repellant. And now I have to start all over again.
But even though it's hard like hell and I'm ashamed and just wanna crawl back in again sometimes it's all worth it. Every time that I get that positive response back from something positive that I do. Maybe just a smile.
Yeah, I've wasted time and threw away good people in the bin BUT. I'm 20 and I'm changing.
Forgive me my sins, dears friends and family
M
måndag 3 maj 2010
karaoke
Tomorrow might be better but I'm gonna take my chance to boast about the weather today anyway; today 26 degrees, tomorrow 29! You can really feel that the summer is coming!
Even though it's getting really hot here I introduced Glögg (in English; mulled wine, a drink drunk a lot in Sweden during Christmas) to my friends at the moving-in-party. It seems the lovely drink that warms every Swedes heart at Christmas takes some getting used too.
Speaking of other things that are Swedish in Japan; me and Hiro went to karaoke yesterday and we found such splendid Swedish classics as E-TYPE! Haha! <3 I laughed a lot and I've just shown Angels Crying for Hiro. As a reaction I got but a frown. We also found The Hives, Mando Diao, Eskobar and Europe! I bet there is a lot more lovely titbits in there.
Once again to the breaches, oh, I meant the sun!
M
Even though it's getting really hot here I introduced Glögg (in English; mulled wine, a drink drunk a lot in Sweden during Christmas) to my friends at the moving-in-party. It seems the lovely drink that warms every Swedes heart at Christmas takes some getting used too.
Speaking of other things that are Swedish in Japan; me and Hiro went to karaoke yesterday and we found such splendid Swedish classics as E-TYPE! Haha! <3 I laughed a lot and I've just shown Angels Crying for Hiro. As a reaction I got but a frown. We also found The Hives, Mando Diao, Eskobar and Europe! I bet there is a lot more lovely titbits in there.
Once again to the breaches, oh, I meant the sun!
M
söndag 2 maj 2010
sunny in kyoto
It's been sunny for three days in a row now, WOHO!
Yesterday I met some of my friends from KICL at En-chan and Enya's moving in party (the girls are living together in an AWESOME 一戸建て - a real house with your own entrance and garden an the whole thing). It was really nice to hang out and go down to Sanjo by bike together later at night.
The other day I met Enya on my way back from lunch with Saki-chan and Maykol. At the same time some other people from KICL and some of my present classmates also walked by. It felt so incredibly weird, it was like being in-between two worlds. The old one with all of the friends and faces I've known for a year, studied with and laughed with (cuz really, there were never anything to cry about). And then the world that is mine now with my Japanese classmates that I will know for another two years. It was so clearly separated (mostly just separated with Shirakawa-dori which is nothing, a street in the North-East part of Kyoto. I see my old school every day from my new one) before and then and there the world's mixed and I was caught in-between.
Now for some more SUN!
M
Yesterday I met some of my friends from KICL at En-chan and Enya's moving in party (the girls are living together in an AWESOME 一戸建て - a real house with your own entrance and garden an the whole thing). It was really nice to hang out and go down to Sanjo by bike together later at night.
The other day I met Enya on my way back from lunch with Saki-chan and Maykol. At the same time some other people from KICL and some of my present classmates also walked by. It felt so incredibly weird, it was like being in-between two worlds. The old one with all of the friends and faces I've known for a year, studied with and laughed with (cuz really, there were never anything to cry about). And then the world that is mine now with my Japanese classmates that I will know for another two years. It was so clearly separated (mostly just separated with Shirakawa-dori which is nothing, a street in the North-East part of Kyoto. I see my old school every day from my new one) before and then and there the world's mixed and I was caught in-between.
Now for some more SUN!
M
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