Ey, Emma here! I'm in Tokyo studying japanese at an international language school. I'll be staying here for a year! Check out my videos on YT too!
I don’t know why, but I constantly want to eat stuff. Maybe cus everything is new and exciting and cus there’s so much to choose from. Buying groceries is fucking expensive tho. And some fruits are insaaanely expensive! The other day we bought 3 apples for 500 yen/ 4 EUR/ 42 SEK/6 dollars! _Three_! Okay, the apples were huge.. but..
I now know WHY they cost so much and the story behind it is kinda neat. Apparently there’s some restriction on the import of apples, meaning they want to keep “the foreign apples” at a minimum and protect their own. The japanese apples go through some pretty insane processes in order to achieve the right quality. Farmers wrap the apples in different kind of colored papers in order for them to get the exact right color. And this is all done while the apples are still ON THE TREES. The paper protects the apples from getting too much sun and getting “too red” (among other things). And yea, that does sound like a lot of work, so I understand why they’re expensive.
“Nihon no ringo” — “Japanese apple” in japanese :D
Just back home! It took _3_ hours to get the damn phone! It’s not that we had to wait for our turn, it was more or less constant paper work and us waiting for them to get it into their system. We were four people, each one of us w a english speaking staff member with whom we spent 3 consistent hours! Some of the papers were pretty funny, at one point we had to fit our entire signature into a 2x2 mm big square. Kinda hard when you don’t have a name written in kanji. At the end they presented a campaign where you could choose either to get the monthly fixed cost free for 5 month or get their mascot toy dog that could walk AND bark. lmao. I took the 5 months. They were all super friendly… but 3h, naha. Anyway… so now I have a japanese phone. My plan from the beginning was to just get a japanese simcard, put it into my iPhone and still be able to use all of the apps and stuff. But the cost for internet per month was insanely high. So now I have a phone w functions of one from the 90s. The camera takes pics that are so pixellated that you can’t even see what’s in the pic. The entire interface, colors etc look so old! But whatever.. now I have an excuse to buy japanese pimping stuff :D
Celebrating our move! Cheap-just-add-water-noodles ftw! lol Will make a video of what this place looks like in a little bit!
Ate at our favorite Indian fast food restaurant in Shibuya yesterday! Never ever eaten such good nan-bread! Mmmmmmm! Missed it!!
