Gatljusen blinkar gult och gatorna står tomma
Fötterna värker och knäna skriker;
jag har gått för länge igen.
Men lyckan är där någonstans;
bubblar, sjuder, viskar för att sen gå i falsett,
de där gångerna. Du vet.
Det är inte kärlek, det är inte fysisk njutning. Det är just det;
lycka.
No title, 5/4-09
M
tisdag 7 april 2009
måndag 6 april 2009
the life of a cruiser
Ah, the sweet life. Nothing can stop me anymore. I am invincible. I can go anywhere. This is how I felt on the way home tonight.
You guessed it, I just bought a jitensha. And not just any bike, it's Kon. That's what I named him and he's awesome. We are going to do wicked stuff together. Ah, life is good.
I'm guessing that none of you really understand why I feel this invincibility just buying a bike. But try having to walk for at least 30 minutes wherever you want to go if you want to do something other than going to school for 12 days. I had to travel a long way (1,5 by walk) to get to the jitensha-ya (bike-shop) that I had been told by one of my locals was good but totally worth it! 8500 yen for my awesome Kon and that's including registration and loads of awesomeness! I will probably hate myself every time I want to go up a slope (you'll see when I upload the pictures) but, hey, what is life for? Awesomeness or going up slopes? Probably both but i prefer to see it from a awesome point of view. Cuz I'm just that awesome.
All I wanna do is do it Pocahontas-style and attach some portable speakers and blast my way through Kyoto. Ah, miss you Poca..
Hum.. so now the awesome-count is up to seven so I'll stop talking 'bout Kon and how awesome (8) he is.
On my way home I saw some cherry-trees in full bloom, they get a special feeling about them at night. It's so serenely beautiful that I don't really know what to do. It's like listening to Håkan Hellström. You fall in love every time with anyone. And the smell, oh. The world is worth saving solely because of cherry-blossoms.
I wish all of you could see them as I do now, but my pictures will have to do(also coming later).
Also I had my first "special-needs-child"-lesson (it's only what I call them). It's for the ones that knew not as much as the other little children at the placement-test yesterday. I will have another one tomorrow and they are sugoi. I like being back at the school bench. Oh, and I got a "special-needs-child"-book as well to study hiragana/katakana in, also sugoi.
What more? Hum. I got picked up (flirted with) at the grocery-shop today by someone working there (I think we have a kind of date Saturday?) and I found a new friend in the guy who sold me the bike (funny story, we had almost all of our conversation over a Japanese version of Google translate. "Please make friends" was what he wrote to me when I had paid and was about to leave, aw). And tomorrow some of the Swedes at the school and all who wants to come aer going to have a more classic hanami at the canal close to Imadegawa-dori!
Enjoy life!
Yours truly,
M
You guessed it, I just bought a jitensha. And not just any bike, it's Kon. That's what I named him and he's awesome. We are going to do wicked stuff together. Ah, life is good.
I'm guessing that none of you really understand why I feel this invincibility just buying a bike. But try having to walk for at least 30 minutes wherever you want to go if you want to do something other than going to school for 12 days. I had to travel a long way (1,5 by walk) to get to the jitensha-ya (bike-shop) that I had been told by one of my locals was good but totally worth it! 8500 yen for my awesome Kon and that's including registration and loads of awesomeness! I will probably hate myself every time I want to go up a slope (you'll see when I upload the pictures) but, hey, what is life for? Awesomeness or going up slopes? Probably both but i prefer to see it from a awesome point of view. Cuz I'm just that awesome.
All I wanna do is do it Pocahontas-style and attach some portable speakers and blast my way through Kyoto. Ah, miss you Poca..
Hum.. so now the awesome-count is up to seven so I'll stop talking 'bout Kon and how awesome (8) he is.
On my way home I saw some cherry-trees in full bloom, they get a special feeling about them at night. It's so serenely beautiful that I don't really know what to do. It's like listening to Håkan Hellström. You fall in love every time with anyone. And the smell, oh. The world is worth saving solely because of cherry-blossoms.
I wish all of you could see them as I do now, but my pictures will have to do(also coming later).
Also I had my first "special-needs-child"-lesson (it's only what I call them). It's for the ones that knew not as much as the other little children at the placement-test yesterday. I will have another one tomorrow and they are sugoi. I like being back at the school bench. Oh, and I got a "special-needs-child"-book as well to study hiragana/katakana in, also sugoi.
What more? Hum. I got picked up (flirted with) at the grocery-shop today by someone working there (I think we have a kind of date Saturday?) and I found a new friend in the guy who sold me the bike (funny story, we had almost all of our conversation over a Japanese version of Google translate. "Please make friends" was what he wrote to me when I had paid and was about to leave, aw). And tomorrow some of the Swedes at the school and all who wants to come aer going to have a more classic hanami at the canal close to Imadegawa-dori!
Enjoy life!
Yours truly,
M
lördag 4 april 2009
hasty desicions
I've gotten a lot of worried reply's to my last entry so I want to calm all of you by saying that it's not that bad. My first reaction was a tad bit to strong. It's not the ideal situation and I will continue searching for an apartment of my own but not as hurriedly. And if I find something very cheap and suitable I'll go for it. But for now I'm good with this.
Last night I was out clubbing for the first time, minimal was the music and it was awesome though it was nothing at all like what it would have been in Sweden. No one knew how to dance properly to the music (whoever is to say what proper is). And EVERYONE had clothes on. Well, have to admit that minimal is not what I usually party to but at least girls usually go with not that much clothes on to these events. I also missed the guy who always puts incense in the speakers. But I got to dance to some quality music and was totally and utterly happy 'bout it.
I also met some locals that actually were Japanese this time. They will show me some sights and good sushi-places as well soon.
Earlier yesterday I met another local who is taking me to a sakura(cherry-blossom)-viewing-event at a shop tomorrow after I have had my placement-test at 9 pm.
I don't really know what to expect from the placement-test so I don't think about it but I will study more hiragana/katakana today. I'm feeling well about staying in today cus it's raining and I walked for about 7 hours yesterday.
I'm fit and I know it!
Ja ne,
M
Last night I was out clubbing for the first time, minimal was the music and it was awesome though it was nothing at all like what it would have been in Sweden. No one knew how to dance properly to the music (whoever is to say what proper is). And EVERYONE had clothes on. Well, have to admit that minimal is not what I usually party to but at least girls usually go with not that much clothes on to these events. I also missed the guy who always puts incense in the speakers. But I got to dance to some quality music and was totally and utterly happy 'bout it.
I also met some locals that actually were Japanese this time. They will show me some sights and good sushi-places as well soon.
Earlier yesterday I met another local who is taking me to a sakura(cherry-blossom)-viewing-event at a shop tomorrow after I have had my placement-test at 9 pm.
I don't really know what to expect from the placement-test so I don't think about it but I will study more hiragana/katakana today. I'm feeling well about staying in today cus it's raining and I walked for about 7 hours yesterday.
I'm fit and I know it!
Ja ne,
M
torsdag 2 april 2009
roomie
Today my roommate arrived and I finally ended my ambivalence about whether it was going to be "daijobu" (fine, OK) or not. It won't. So tomorrow apartment-hunting begins. I got the offer to stay in another room in the dormitory but this one is my home now, and if I can't live in this on my own then I'm pretty confident that I can find a cheeper option on the market based on the conversations I had with some local gaijin (foreigners) yesterday at McLoughlin's.
We have to see if the school thinks it's fine to break the contract or not and if I can have the money back. Something that should speak for me is that I told them in advance that I was not happy with my current situation. Well well, we'll see.
Sleep thight party people!
M
We have to see if the school thinks it's fine to break the contract or not and if I can have the money back. Something that should speak for me is that I told them in advance that I was not happy with my current situation. Well well, we'll see.
Sleep thight party people!
M
onsdag 1 april 2009
YATTA!
What other title is there? None.
I'm here, I'm well and superhappy! This will be a short first one because I've soon used up all the time that I give myself at the computer each day (1 h + 1 episode of series/movie). Achtung achtung!
What I would like to get of my chest is a bit of gratitude before anything else is said.
Thanks to everyone that came to my goodbye party and made it a superawesomest night. <3
Many thanks to Morgan, Josefine and Paulina; without you I wouldn't have made the packing in this orderly fashion. And especially you Morgan, you were a fucking rock! Love you for the last days in Sweden and Japan 2009 is going to rock as well!
Also many thanks to Isabelle who without really knowing it has been a great support these first days and the days to come. You have been a safe harbour to rest my thoughts in when the sea has been stormy elsewhere.
Thanks to Bror Max for the last few days and all the rest, you'll be the one I miss the most with your jokes, silent presence and unspoken love.
Also heaps and tons of everlasting love and deepest gratitude to my parents, Susanna, Dan, Phelix and Gudrun for without whom this trip would not be possible at all. Your undying support means a LOT to me and I love each and every one of you very, very much even though I'm not that good at expressing it always.
Now it's getting not that short and very sentimental over here and before I cry my eyes out (fucking tear canals) I will stop. Know that I mean all that I've said and so much more as well. And to those not mentioned by name, it's not cus I don't love you too.
<3
M
I'm here, I'm well and superhappy! This will be a short first one because I've soon used up all the time that I give myself at the computer each day (1 h + 1 episode of series/movie). Achtung achtung!
What I would like to get of my chest is a bit of gratitude before anything else is said.
Thanks to everyone that came to my goodbye party and made it a superawesomest night. <3
Many thanks to Morgan, Josefine and Paulina; without you I wouldn't have made the packing in this orderly fashion. And especially you Morgan, you were a fucking rock! Love you for the last days in Sweden and Japan 2009 is going to rock as well!
Also many thanks to Isabelle who without really knowing it has been a great support these first days and the days to come. You have been a safe harbour to rest my thoughts in when the sea has been stormy elsewhere.
Thanks to Bror Max for the last few days and all the rest, you'll be the one I miss the most with your jokes, silent presence and unspoken love.
Also heaps and tons of everlasting love and deepest gratitude to my parents, Susanna, Dan, Phelix and Gudrun for without whom this trip would not be possible at all. Your undying support means a LOT to me and I love each and every one of you very, very much even though I'm not that good at expressing it always.
Now it's getting not that short and very sentimental over here and before I cry my eyes out (fucking tear canals) I will stop. Know that I mean all that I've said and so much more as well. And to those not mentioned by name, it's not cus I don't love you too.
<3
M
onsdag 18 mars 2009
ingen himmel räcker till
Jag stod och valde kläder och kände att våren och de kläder jag valde krävde Peggy Lejonhjärta.
Så jag satte volymen på max i vardagsrummet (förlåt grannar), öppnade balkongdörren och dansade mig galen.
Som alltid när jag lyssnar på Peggy vill jag springa snabbt och utan hinder till änglasyster och berätta hur vacker hon är och alltid kommer vara för mig.
Nu sprang jag inte, men jag vill att du ska veta i alla fall.
Mysse alltid<3 Bysse
Så jag satte volymen på max i vardagsrummet (förlåt grannar), öppnade balkongdörren och dansade mig galen.
Som alltid när jag lyssnar på Peggy vill jag springa snabbt och utan hinder till änglasyster och berätta hur vacker hon är och alltid kommer vara för mig.
Nu sprang jag inte, men jag vill att du ska veta i alla fall.
Mysse alltid<3 Bysse
måndag 16 mars 2009
punch in the face
Nu har jag just fått det besked jag naivt hoppades att jag inte skulle få.
På grund av den svaga kronan kommer jag att behöva betala 12 000 sek mer i skolavgift. Med tanke på att ekonomin bara höll ihop för den som lever SNÅLT innan ligger jag nu i dyn så att säga.
Imorgon blir det till att ringa till CSN och be snällt och fint att få låna lite mer cashis... Urr.
Mer uppdateringar senare.
M
På grund av den svaga kronan kommer jag att behöva betala 12 000 sek mer i skolavgift. Med tanke på att ekonomin bara höll ihop för den som lever SNÅLT innan ligger jag nu i dyn så att säga.
Imorgon blir det till att ringa till CSN och be snällt och fint att få låna lite mer cashis... Urr.
Mer uppdateringar senare.
M
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