Hello my pretties!!

What up!??
Let's continue our journey shall we!

So Saturday after the awesome Thanksgiving meal was quiet and slow, caught up readings and started reviewing for Japanese tests we have this week. After dinner Ashley made home made fudge that was a big hit for the chocoholics that are all over this place!!! After that bunch of people decided to go to Tom's room and drink and chat. It ended up being the most awesome rave ever! With lights switched on and off by the lightmasters, everyone danced in the tiny room. Some genius thought of trying to download a strobe light app for iPhone and then it was fully on! Best Goth club night ever.

Sunday was lazy as well did some readings and Japanese and then a few of us headed out for dinner at Hard Rock Café! mmm There we ate way to much and almost couldn't move. Best burgers ever! A couple of us also got mojito's and Jo got a bit buzzed after a few sips, which was of course hilarious. For her defense the alcohol content was a bit higher than usually in Japan... :)

Monday was also study day...believe it or not! Japanese tests coming up. Very uneventful day of studying. I took a break and went to the mall to get something to nibble on, and chose the worst thing ever. I bought a "chili dog" from Tully's...never ever do that mistake!!! it was totally and utterly horrible!! yukk! By 6 I started to feel a bit under the weather but managed to drag myself to Kyle J's room to make some travel plans around 10. There we decided to skip Kuala Lumpur and just do Hong Kong, Bangkok, Vietnam and Cambodia. We bought very cheap planetickets from Bangkok to Vietnam and were very happy about that. After that I went back and shivered in my bed until I finally fell a sleep at 5 am, just to wake up at 7.30 to do the oral part of the Japanese test...yay. Feeling like crap I went home again and fell asleep from 12-3.30. Still felt like shit so decided to skip Gender class and go to Jusco for some cold medicine. Then went home again and slept from 6.30-11pm. Then I had to wake up to do some more Japanese...which I should be doing now... heh!!

hope you didn't die of boredom... if not you are able to see some random photos!!! YAY!!!


 Neko café!

Arty farty Tori cam photos

Christmas!

If I ever need one I know where to find it!

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Thanksgiving without the people..and most of the food...

Ashley making fudge...mmm

Chocoholics liking the pot















                                                   

Amer doing his Dr. Zoidberg impression..

 Hard Rock faces?


















Mmm Burger!

Free time, Thanksgiving and Japan..

Okay more update, I have to try to catch up!!

So, Last week was filled up with school. I'm lying, it wasn't, we only had 3 days of school instead of the 4 days. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday was the Kyudai School festival, held on Ito Campus. I was lazy and did not go :( Monday is always off and then Tuesday was a national Holiday, so no school then!

Did I do anything productive? Must kind of say neeeeryeah. I did go around Fukuoka and Tenjin with Charlotte and Ashley, since a lot of people decided to go somewhere else. Tokyo, Osaka, Korea... 

I had a lot of fun in good ol' Fukuoka. I saw Kashii Shrine and nice shops, tried to plan the awesome trip and had some small amounts of alcohol. Oh almost forgot! also went to a Neko Café! that was the cutest thing ever! Made me not miss my cat as much! So this is how it works: You go in and play with cats! They are everywhere! walking around your table, sitting in empty chairs at your table and playing with your toes! Cat toys are provided so you can jump around with the cats... Yay! For only 100 yen you can feed the cats some chicken, and boy do they like it!!! They are all over you trying to snatch some chickywicky!

Enough on that. Thursday was Thanksgiving, not that I really cared, but we decided that it would be awesome to have a Thanksgiving meal. The notice was too short, so we moved Thanksgiving to Friday. A lot of people decided to join, so it was kind of a pot luck party! We had rice, Korean noodles, pumpkin soup, corn bread made by me and Ayana in a RICECOOKER!, naan bread, beef, mac and cheese, chicken, pancakes and sweet potato pie with marshmallows on top! I had great time with great people for my very first thanksgiving!

After dinner, we were so full so we watched the weirdest movie ever... it was a anime called Mind Games and oh my cod, how wonderfully strange it was. I dare ya to watch it! Well we kind of couldn't finish it, because we were so tired after the feast!

Erm, I have found a couple of more things that annoy me about Japan:

1. everything is so goddamn sweet!! The bread, the food, the everything!

2. The bread! There are no words! sweet, white and so soft... Now I have to travel all the way to Tenjin to get real bread!

3. Sidewalks! everyone bikes... still the curbs are so high that you get a concussion when you hit them, and you fall off the bike if you are going to slow.

So, it seems that I caught up! Amazing!

One more thing here, I was having lunch with my tutor yesterday and we were talking about Christmas, so I was explaining that in Iceland we had not only one Santa, but 13!! And that they all had names which described them... I found out while explaining that they are in fact very creepy...slamming doors, peeping through windows and eating your leftovers! Not forgetting the one that steal sheep and can't bend his legs... 

Enough nonsense!

So...

A little update!! (late as usual, I know)

So, lately I have just been in school and wandering around Tenjin as usual and it's save to say that Christmas is here!! 

November 1st it all started! Straight after Halloween it's Christmastime in Japan!! Everything is very festive, and they really really like their Christmas lights!!! And in colors I'm not all that used to like blue and pink...those are not Christmas lights in my book!! But Christmas songs are blasted all over the place in a very ...new? way. I find this time of year a wee bit strange here, I found out that I miss the cold and wind and icy streets with people hurrying inside shops to get warm! Here we still have green leaves on the trees and around 14 degrees! That is one thing that does not add up!! But hey, a new experience!

Now for some updates!

On Sunday almost two weeks ago, I decided to get on my bike and get lost around the Kashiihama Kaikan area, which is the one I live in. The weather was bright and sunny as I set out for my adventures. I biked around until I found a very pretty park that had a pond in the middle. After I while I saw a greenhouse which people were going into, so I decided to follow! When I came in I was asked for a 100 yen, so I payed without really knowing what I was paying for. Inside was very hot and humid so I figured out that they must have something cool there (no pun intended). As I past the plastic doors a lot of very pretty plants greeted me, along with big, white beautiful butterflies!!! They flew all over me and because I was wearing a bright red sweater they really liked me, so they sat on my shoulders and back if I stayed still for a while. Quite amazing to find this while getting lost!! Thank god I had my trusty camera! 

After getting rid of the butterflies of my sweater I ate ice cream sold at... ICELAND..har har har! On I went and decided to look closer at the beach, and check how far it reached, which ended up being almost hit by a car too often to count since the streets got really narrow the further I went on. I found a very peaceful place at the beach and started walking around. It was a bit too peaceful cause I didn't notice when the flood came... So some parts of the beach had gone on a holiday when I realized that my bike was a bit far away, so I needed to wade almost up to my knees to get back. FUN FUN FUN!

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Well...so the week went it's way with the normal stuff, cooking in the non firealarmed kitchen and eating... 

Oh and yes, I won't be spending Christmas in Japan after all! Kyle, Amer,  Hristina and I, bought us some tickets to the land of Thai! Yes ladies and gentlemen, meine damen und herren, Dömur mínar og H(n)errar!! The city of Bangkok awaits me! Well to be honest, not only the city of Bangkok, because as we ( or I..) speak we are also planning to go to Malaysia and Cambodia and even if there is time and visa, to Vietnam! Oh yes...and Hong Kong! Our flight is from Fukuoka to Hong Kong, wait there for a day, Bangkok, then the same on the way back, which gives us new years eve in Hong Kong!  Amazing in the house!

This should be enough for today, I'll give some updates tomorrow!

Tata!

Say what now!!!?!?!?!?

Have I ever mentioned how strange and weird Japan is? Not a day passes without me finding something amazingly strange. A trip to the supermarket, trip to the drugstore or just a stroll down the street?? Let's take a look shall we?!

Start this awesome diet to get Jesus Body! I want it, do you!?

Who says Barbie is only beach blond and pale skinned?! Now she is  Black Label and beautiful!

We took a small train to the beach one day. It took us straight to hell...

This lovely thing was casually hanging out with the Christmas stuff. Apparently it goes in your butt. Also available in green and clear.

Well, We all know Christmas is right around the corner (well...almost) Of course the Japanese have a lot of Christmas(??) stuff... for example:

The kids are not the only ones that get something good for Christmas... This Special mErry X'mas! anyone knows what that spells?!?! Strictly for 18 and over!

this lovely, yet slightly creepy Santa mask, worn by Heleen, is both comfy and Christmas-y!!!

And then for some cute and fun stuff, just so you wont get nightmares:

 Reindeer hats! warm and cute! two great types worn by Charlotte and me

 Santa's hat taken to far! Very cut and will most likely be mine some day!

Santa needed glasses so I lent him mine!

...and just for your pleasure; my new pretty new Reindeer Pj's!:

So soooft!

Well, I better run,  I'll end this with one autumn picture from a 700 year old Zen garden in Daizaifu...for your pleasure! tata for now

Jpo homies!

what up!?!
This is my attempt to blog regularly, so this blog is going to be very boring (deal with it)

Yesterday was very cold, well not - cold, but cold...compared to the nice sun and warmth we have been having last month. And it was quite windy. Nothing compared to home though, but I was cold. Then I made homemade hamburgers for the first time (by myself!) Then we had a little teatime in the kitchen. Everyone ended up high from sugar overload and laughed at non funny things. Just the basic.

Today I almost died. Yes almost. I was biking crossing a street(on a green light)when a car came(also on a green light, but was turning) I must have been in his blindspot because he didn't stop and almost hit me, it was so close that I felt the heat from the car on my leg. Zannen.

I don't think I have mentioned it before but my airco is possessed. It turns on when it feels like it and on the lowest heat setting and sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night shivering and get almost blown away because it's so powerful. not the best way to wake up.

that was a very lame blog... so sorry!

smell ya laters!

Again...

Again I forgot ( well...was to lazy) to blog. Very sorry! Again I suggest that you just look at some photos to find out what has been happening. (Kind of hasn't been much) sorry about that.

Last week, was filled with school, believe it or not, although we had a holiday on Wednesday so it was a perfect day for a....STUDY TRIP! Our destination was a Balloon festival that took place in Saga. So hot air balloons?!?!?!? yay! But due to some strong wind the balloon race that everyone was waiting for was canceled... not yay. But I had an awesome time anyways, the food was amazing and a lot of things to see and people to crash into!








Friday we decided to go to Karaoke, just a few girls together. Well we kind of kidnapped poor Mark B and took him with us. Around midnight he decided to go home. That left us girls there... not a wise thing to do. Gaijin girls alone at karaoke. Of course a very disgusting man decided to join us. After a few attempts to join us we left...! (no photos sumimasen)

Saturday I decided to join Heleen and Ayana to the swimming pool! It was very awesome until I was kindly asked to wear a long sleeved, turtleneck shirt...To hide my tattoos. Amazing!!! *not* thankfully...no photos of that either.
Theeeen I BOUGHT A NEW COMPUTER!!!!!!! very happy, since the old one was dying on me, and this one is awesome! MacBook pro 15" love it to death... must find an awesome name.

Sunday was the laziest day ever...stayed inside doing readings and homework...woop.

Mondays are off like I said before, (I think). This Monday I decided to wake up very early to go see fat, sweaty Japanese men in oversized thongs. yes, you heard me. We went to a Sumo stable in Daizaifu and watched a Sumo training with some of the Sumo that are taking part in the Fukuoka something championship...thing I think...
Anyway, it was very interesting I must say. I like sumo and I am considering a carrier. Must start training soon.