Wow. I did it. I went to the hairdressers. My hair was is such bad condition. For the last maybe 5 years I’ve permed my hair. A year ago I stopped and decided I would let my hair grow out straight like it naturally does. So the past year the top half of my hair has been straight and the rest curly. It’s looked like crap. So damaged. Like svinto (click). I’ve been embarrassed to go get my hair cut cus it’s been so baaaaad. The fact that I would have trouble explaining how I wanted it cut in japanese, was not really the problem. I just wanted the tops trimmed anyway. But now I’ve done it :D I can pull my fingers through my hair now without them getting stuck :D Almost all of the “perm hair” is gone!! 

Got home from Nagano two days ago. Had a great time! I don’t like snow but it was really nice during those three days. Insane how you just 2h by train (a bit less actually) can get to experience a different climate like that. And different nature. Seeing the snow monkeys up in the mountains was awesome! This is why I love Japan.. just an hour from tokyo’s centre you can experience some amazing (!) nature. Love the contrasts. 

Tomorrow I’m going to Nagano!! :D Staying for two nights. Gonna say hello to the snow monkeys, check out some temples and that kind of stuff. Takes about 1,5h w the Shinkansen. Woowoo love going on trips, most of all staying at hotels!! 

Hi there! So Christmas and New Years have past and I’ve had a great time! I wasn’t really feeling the japanese tradition, which is to go to KFC on christmas eve and eat chicken (no joke!). Instead I spent the day at Disney Sea, which was AWESOME! Best_place_on_earth. New Years was really sweet too. We started off the night by going to an izakaya where we ate and drank a bunch, after that we went to a karaoke. We spent ‘tolvslaget’ at a club in Shibuya and after a couple of hours we made our way to a temple. They don’t have any fireworks over here during the new years, which was kind of a surprise to me. We went to the temple in Harajuku, and boy where there many people. People visit temples to pray for good health and fortune. All around Harajuku there were tons of food stands and other activities going on. But we came there around 3am and it was sooo cold, so directly after the visit to the temple we took a cab home. 

My new years resolution is to go get a hair cut THIS month. I hate going to the hairdressers, even more so in Japan! Guess I’ll just have to being some paper and a pen and draw what I want. At this point my hair looks so bad I’m embarrassed to go get my hair cut! god dammit!! 

Have a great 2011 everyone!! 

Look at those cute leaves! :D Living in the middle of Tokyo, I’ve totally missed that it’s actually fall right now and that the leaves have changed color. Sure, there are tons of parks here and there, but it’s not like you go there often. And when walking around in the city, all I obviously see are the neon lights. Today however we went on a school trip to Fujikyu Highland, an amusement park just below Mt Fuji and a 2h bus ride from Tokyo. The scenery around there was amazing! Mountains w trees in greens, reds and oranges. The amusement park was pretty sweet too. They had some insane rides! The coolest one was roller coaster that accelerated INSANELY fast, it reached 250km/h! Damn.

Btw, if you don’t know how twitter works or don’t have an account, you can go here and see pictures I post there at least. 

Ttyl! 

A little update might be in order. The reason for why I haven’t posted here in a while is cus it’s easier to use my Twitter for smaller updates.

Making dinner atm. Waiting for the rice to catch up. Other than that, in school we’ve now started learning some new big things. Before we’ve only been talking in a polite way… and that’s mainly used when you meet someone for the first time or if the person is superior to you. Useful indeed, but if you talk to your friends that way you just sound weird. So we’ve now started with the “plain style” which is the more relaxed version. But it’s a real mind fuck. Have to think so hard again when talking. 

Now the rice is soon done!! Back to cooking! Ttyl!

So yesterday we went to an Izakaya! It’s a bar type of place that also sells food. You can spend hours there, ordering all kinds of stuff. The dishes are usually pretty small (note the tiny pizza slice on my plate on the pic), but the idea is to order many different things and share them. At the place we went to you had a portable touch screen thingy where you ordered what you wanted. After the Izakaya we ended up at a really cool bar with some dart and cowboy theme going on. And then we took the last train home! It was sort of a “good bye” party since a couple of my classmates are going home next week and some are changing class. Tomorrow another test awaits! Back to studying.

Been raining on and off for 2 days. When that used to happened back in Sweden I’d complain my ass off. But over here, it’s like I don’t even think about it. I don’t care. I don’t have to sit inside just because it’s raining. It doesn’t bother me. It’s because life over here is different, I’m living my life in the city I love. 

And oh.. sorry for the absence lately. School is BUSY!!! This week we’ve had 4 tests. iiij! Tomorrow we’re going to a Zoo tho. Yay for Zoos………… ô.O Going to the circus would’ve been worse though. That would’ve sucked. haha. But yea, going there with class so it should still be fun. And then we’re off on monday too! THANK YOU!!!

I’ve made the mistake countless times. So here’s a little inside tip for anyone who’s ever coming to Japan; don’t ever buy any beverages or packaged foods that have the color green on them. I’ve actually not made the mistake since I got here this time, but my friends keep falling for it. The things always look really good and refreshing.. but it’s deceptive I tell you. I _THINK_ the stuff is suppose to taste like green tea but it just tastes like chemicals. I love green tea. But not when it’s cold or mixed into the cream of the inside of a doughnut or is the flavor of your chewing gum. Surprise!! Mhmm…. I’ve never liked iced tea, but they’re really keen on the green version of it over here. Gonna try to tame my taste buds into liking it. 

This is what I woke up from today. And a lot of other days. They’ve been digging doing something on and off for a month. Loving it. And no, I’m not standing down on the street. I’m lying in bed and the windows are closed. If feels like they’re IN my apartment ffs.