bliss

I'm very happy right now. Veeery happy. We now have internet in our apartment! After a month and a couple of days of daily trips to Hiros place for a couple of hours. (Also after a 50 minutes long phoneconversation between Ayu, my roommate, and our internet people, thank you Ayuu!) It feels soo good to be sitting in your own bed writing in your blog. Everybody, never underestemate the power of internet!
Now I'm going to my friend Meka's live at Urban Guild here in Kyoto so I'll catch you laters everyone!


Bliss blissyblissbliss!
M

once more around the wheel

Today I thought I was supossed to start an extra class, so was not the case. I instead enbarked on a little adventure. I took the Eizan railway (very small train that goes to the outskirts of northern Kyoto on rail). I've been living next to it and going by it by bike basically every morning for quite some time now (i.e. since I came to Japan) but never actually gone anywhere with it. I decided to go to a place called Ninose by a choise that was sprung completely from the heart. All the stations before that made me wonder if maybe the Eizan railway was nothing for me. But just between the station before Ninose began a forest and it was magical. Eizan is not for me, Ninose is. It was the most sereene beauty I've seen so far in Japan. It was small but oh so lush. A river ran through it all and there was mountains on both sides. Every where there was greenery. And bamboo my great love, and waterfalls, oh waterfalls! I walked along the road leading to the next station and looking more like a forigener than I have in quite some while. I think they all knew eachothers names and I did not fit in at all with my sunglasses, stockings and two big bags. It was a very obvious break in the beauty between the different stations, neither of them could be measured with Ninose.
<3


Catch you on the flipside
M

newbie

This weekend I'm going to my first Jap music festival and it feels like I've never been to a festival in my entire life. I have no clue how much of my Swedish festival experience I can actually use. I know that I won't be able to schmack up a tent and crawl into conveniently placed on a camp close to the stage. Is there gonna be mud? Will I be able to se a single artist without queing for decent spots for ages? Will I faint when I see Saosin? Feels so weird not to be on top of things especially since I'm going alone the first two days. ADVENTURE TIME! I'm psyked as usuall. Haha.


Gogo ME!
M

cockroach

So I've had my first cockroach in my house. I am not surprised cuz it's really just disgusting there nowadays when I go back. So far I've been back three nights the last three weeks and had to spend most of the time cleaning up the place. Yeah, Hiro's place is like heaven comparing to my appartment. Basically no chance of getting roaches here oh no siree. Looking forward to when I move together with mah mate Ayu next month! It'll be heaps of fun I'm sure!


Roach on everybody!
M

family reunion

So now mum and Max has been here to visit me and gone home. It was awesome and I already miss them. It was really good get to show the family where I live and what I do here in Japan, meet some of my friends and the boyfriend. It is so much easier to show than it is to tell so to speak.
Now we have summer holidays and it's good times. We have gotten quite some homework but it'll be alright.
I have to make quite a lot of decisions in the near future and it's a bit scary but that'll be alright to. I trust myself more now since coming to Japan. And that feels good mates.
My English is getting horrible so I apologize for that in advance and hope to be doing better in the near future.
Wells, now I'm off to a busy day with a lot of things to arrange seeing that boyfriend leaves for London the first of august and we have been the two laziest pricks lately. Off I go!


M

who am I, where did I come from

I'm now going to do something not very Japanese nor Swedish;
I am going to drink Earl Grey and watch a British movie cuz I realized when I watched Poirot earlier today and they were driving through the British countryside that I also miss Britain and my friends and family there.


So, so long yet again fair maids and jolly fellows!
M

Sweden day and a awesome weekend!

During last week I realised that it would be the Swedish national day last Saturday. So being the true patriot I am (nah, mostly because I'm me :D), I decided to make it in to a party.
Fortunately for me I had received all the necessary equipment from the awesome couple Ante n Johanna (Bror n Kägis!) for a Christmas present so I was already set. So when I woke up Saturday slightly tired from the "pre-party" at my place Friday all I had to do was to put on my Swedish football shirt and hang a variety of blue and yellow ribbons round my neck, send out the invites, serpentine and flags at hand and head out.
Me, Robert and Rasmus went to Michie's school festival and ended up in a road trip in a car with Sou and some of his friends.

We had crepes and purikura (<3 purikura), some of us had raw egg, and heaps of fun in the kids corner. It felt like back in the day when me and my friends just drifted around and did whatever we felt like doing without a care in the world. <3
Of course we ended up at Kamogawa, it was after all Saturday and we had a big day to celebrate. We drew Swedish flags on a wide variety of people, renamed some of them with Swedish names and I handed out my flags and taught people to use a serpentine.
We got to watch some students from Kyoto University's Temple Visiting Club (haha) being drunk in the river. I have noticed that this seems to be very common and not at all that bad here in Kyoto. The Japs don't have the same sense of shame when they are drunk. When drunk do the most embarrassing thing and it's all good. They are awesome!

Also honored my new country a little bit by seeing Jap-Uzbekistan at Hub (NIIIPPPPPOOOON NIIIIIPPPOOOON), got in and out of some fights and last but not least ended up at Kanso <3. style="text-align: center;">

And yeah, forgot to tell you guys. I have pierced my tongue. Think I'm falling in love with myself a tad bit after i did it. I look awesome in it! Go go ME!
Had a little bit of a trouble with sounding like a retard for a while but since it's been more than a week now I'm almost back to awesome.

Happy Sweden day a go go!
M