Hi again. I really need to update here more often, don't I..? ...oh, well, today (of some reason, it's the first time since ever) we didn't get any homework for tomorrow, so I've been doing pretty much nothing since I came home ;) Ate a very spontanious dinner of only rice, since we've forgotten to take out stuff from the freezer. Again. So shame on us, thank god the rice here is so tasty as it is!!
Visited the place we're gonna work at during the holidays (a food mall called "Hallo Days", whatever that is..) today, still not completely sure why... Sat down and talked with the staff for a while, showed them our "gaikokujintoroku" -something to show that we are accepted foreigners haha- which we alredy did last time, and wrote down name and adress for them, which we also did last time. But I could once again use my "inkan" though!! Inkan is a name-stamp they use here instead of a signature. You actually have to have it when buying a phone or signing any kind of contract, hence why I had to get one in the first place. Feels kind of cool to use, but unfortunately, my name is to long to fit into the stamp. So when my friends got their names in katakana to stamp down, I got my initials instead in romaji. So I'm currently signing my stuff with "BH". Highly uncool...
Two days left of school before the winter holidays will start, will be niiiice.. Starting to feel not so nice that I will work five of those days, but I hope it will be fun as well.
Hmm, ok, can't think of much more to say. Gotten a slight crush on Matsushita Yuya just because he's so damn friggin cuuuute so I'm on a fine way to listen all of his songs to death. Aaalmost getting bad teeth from all that sugar, but yeah, he's too cute to resist :3
And I've seen about the most horrid tv-series ever. I watched the first three episodes just for a gag, but really, that as far as it goes. It wasn't even that funny. Basically about a japanese girl substituting as a japanese teacher for crazy foreigners, including a ninjacrazed swedish girl. Yay. Perfectly portraits the way you don't want to be viewed as a foreigner, but probably is sometimes. Watch, and you don't know if you should cry or laugh. =_=
http://www.dramacrazy.net/japanese-drama/nihonjin-no-shiranai-nihongo-episode-1/
20/12
2010-12-20 @ 15:06:4412/12 :D
2010-12-12 @ 06:55:01 Happy 2nd Advent everyone!! :) Just realized that it was today! Little bit of a tough time to get some christmas feeling here, even though we're working on it! Bought a shitload of christmas decorations, including a plastic christmas tree haha (or hang, on, I already wrote that last weekend right..? ups.)
The weekend has been pretty fun; last Friday all us swedes we're invited to a house of a friend of mine, together with some of her japanese friends. A bit awkward at times when the cultural differences wanted to make themselves seen, but still mostly a lot of fun! And I completely fell in love with a typical japanese thingey called kotatsu. I sooo want one!! It's one of those japanese tables that are pretty close to the ground since you sit directly on the floor without any chairs, but with a thick blanket hanging down from the sides from underneath the table. Some kind of electric device is connected so that that it get's all warm and cozy underneath the table. Awesome, I tell you. The only problem was that you got all sleepy in like 2 seconds haha. The houses themselves are pretty cold, so I guess getting some cozy warmth makes you fall like a log ;)
after dinner Kanami (the proud owner of the kotatsu and the huse) came in with a birthday-cake and started to sing happy birthday, and hahahahaha -i can't stop laughing at this- I happily sung along and glanced around to see who's birthday it was. Until they sung my name..... hahaha, I had NO idea they even knew my birthday is next week XD Really really cute of them considering I haven't known Kanami for very long, and her friends an even shorter time. They had my name engraved on the cake and everything!! And I got the funniest thing as well! A "magic music bear" dun, dun, duuun.. The cutest little teddy with headphones, that when connected to a computer or mp3 dance along to the music and works as a speaker. Looks a bit retarded after a while since it's doing the same dancemoves over and over again, but it's still the cutest!!!!
Cuuuuute :3
And there's a pun hidden in here as well! I get called "Bea" most of the times here as well, and when the japanese say it, which has the same sound as when the japanese say the english word "bear", hence why I got a bear from starters :D
Sunday afternoon now, later tonight we've been invited over to a nepalese girls house for dinner. She's in the same school as us, although senpai, so I hope I won't make a big fool out of myself with my poor language skills in comparison ;) Otherwise I'm just worried about the food... she said she would make nepalese food wich I once tasted before from other nepalese friends. And that was not even possible to eat. I think it's safe to say that I've never tasted anything as spice in my whole life *shudders*. Spicy can be nice, but I want to survive as well...
Coming weeks tuesday will be free (yaaay) so I will go out with my classmates on monday night after school. The occasion is my birtday and Yo Tei's -chinese classmate- birthday next week, so we'll go karaoke the whole night!! It's veeery japanese, and veeeery popular, so it will be fun to try that out! It's very cheap as well, so that's nice.
Until next time then! Hugs
The weekend has been pretty fun; last Friday all us swedes we're invited to a house of a friend of mine, together with some of her japanese friends. A bit awkward at times when the cultural differences wanted to make themselves seen, but still mostly a lot of fun! And I completely fell in love with a typical japanese thingey called kotatsu. I sooo want one!! It's one of those japanese tables that are pretty close to the ground since you sit directly on the floor without any chairs, but with a thick blanket hanging down from the sides from underneath the table. Some kind of electric device is connected so that that it get's all warm and cozy underneath the table. Awesome, I tell you. The only problem was that you got all sleepy in like 2 seconds haha. The houses themselves are pretty cold, so I guess getting some cozy warmth makes you fall like a log ;)
after dinner Kanami (the proud owner of the kotatsu and the huse) came in with a birthday-cake and started to sing happy birthday, and hahahahaha -i can't stop laughing at this- I happily sung along and glanced around to see who's birthday it was. Until they sung my name..... hahaha, I had NO idea they even knew my birthday is next week XD Really really cute of them considering I haven't known Kanami for very long, and her friends an even shorter time. They had my name engraved on the cake and everything!! And I got the funniest thing as well! A "magic music bear" dun, dun, duuun.. The cutest little teddy with headphones, that when connected to a computer or mp3 dance along to the music and works as a speaker. Looks a bit retarded after a while since it's doing the same dancemoves over and over again, but it's still the cutest!!!!
Cuuuuute :3
And there's a pun hidden in here as well! I get called "Bea" most of the times here as well, and when the japanese say it, which has the same sound as when the japanese say the english word "bear", hence why I got a bear from starters :D
Sunday afternoon now, later tonight we've been invited over to a nepalese girls house for dinner. She's in the same school as us, although senpai, so I hope I won't make a big fool out of myself with my poor language skills in comparison ;) Otherwise I'm just worried about the food... she said she would make nepalese food wich I once tasted before from other nepalese friends. And that was not even possible to eat. I think it's safe to say that I've never tasted anything as spice in my whole life *shudders*. Spicy can be nice, but I want to survive as well...
Coming weeks tuesday will be free (yaaay) so I will go out with my classmates on monday night after school. The occasion is my birtday and Yo Tei's -chinese classmate- birthday next week, so we'll go karaoke the whole night!! It's veeery japanese, and veeeery popular, so it will be fun to try that out! It's very cheap as well, so that's nice.
Until next time then! Hugs
4/12
2010-12-04 @ 08:48:15 Yay! Saturday afternoon, and finally a bit of time to spare^^ Both tests are done, and in the end I found both of them actually quite simple, so yay again! Have gotten the first one back already, and the result.. a bit meeh to be honest: 86/100... And a lot of really stupid mistakes as usual :/ Almost looking forward to the next test so I can try better XD
The very feared kanji test went fine as well, could read and write them all, but I will have to wait and see if I got them correct as well, haha.
Setting the test aside, my blog is no longer lying! Now it really IS a shoebox here in Fukuoka to live in!! The reason is that all of us swedish girls moved in together (4 of us) where before it was only me and Emma. Half the rent, horray!!! :D It was actually this type of room I (and all the other swedish girls) signed up for, but they still put us in separate rooms with -of course- double rent. I get the feeling the staff at the school think we are rich kids that have an endless amount of money sometimes.. Maybe because all the other students will go on studing at universities here, get a job here and all that jazz since that's profitable for them. And we, well, because we want to :)
Have gotten a job by the way! For five days only, but it will be some money. Got it through the school, and will be something like spending 7 h per day (during the christmas holiday, and bohoo, during the swedish christmas eve...) cutting fish and sorting sushi in a supermarket :S But it's a good thing, more money to save so I might be able to see a bit of the country here in the future :) So much to see!!
And today we bought some christmas decorations! And I tried to make some kind of advent candleholder hahaha. we bought a cute little basket that we filled with plastic (somewhat ugly but what to do) pines, some red ribbons, and four tea candles. As it is now it looks very pretty, but probably not safe to lit...
The very feared kanji test went fine as well, could read and write them all, but I will have to wait and see if I got them correct as well, haha.
Setting the test aside, my blog is no longer lying! Now it really IS a shoebox here in Fukuoka to live in!! The reason is that all of us swedish girls moved in together (4 of us) where before it was only me and Emma. Half the rent, horray!!! :D It was actually this type of room I (and all the other swedish girls) signed up for, but they still put us in separate rooms with -of course- double rent. I get the feeling the staff at the school think we are rich kids that have an endless amount of money sometimes.. Maybe because all the other students will go on studing at universities here, get a job here and all that jazz since that's profitable for them. And we, well, because we want to :)
Have gotten a job by the way! For five days only, but it will be some money. Got it through the school, and will be something like spending 7 h per day (during the christmas holiday, and bohoo, during the swedish christmas eve...) cutting fish and sorting sushi in a supermarket :S But it's a good thing, more money to save so I might be able to see a bit of the country here in the future :) So much to see!!
And today we bought some christmas decorations! And I tried to make some kind of advent candleholder hahaha. we bought a cute little basket that we filled with plastic (somewhat ugly but what to do) pines, some red ribbons, and four tea candles. As it is now it looks very pretty, but probably not safe to lit...
