So once again I haven't been updating in a while. Well, a lot of has been happening and plans have changed etc. I will do a proper update later (probably tomorrow, but you know me ;P). However, one thing is for sure. I changed my host-family and am living at the moment in Ichihara, Chiba. However, I will be staying over here for a month and after that I will be moving to the northern part of Honshu, to a prefecture called Miyagi, to the city of Sendai. That should be my final and permanent destination. And yes, I will be changing school as well, as Miyagi is quite far away from Tokyo. Well that's it guys and girls!!
P.S. I don't know what's the problem with this blog, but I can't update pictures, can't do hyperlinks etc. I'll try to fix the matter tomorrow, 'cause I will most probably have lots of free time tomorrow.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Possible 10 last days in Tokyo metropolitan area
I'm gonna write a really short post about this subject. So, at the moment YFU is searching for a permanent family for me and I am possibly moving to another prefecture. And I think that is the most likely option. So I have been thinking about things and thought that maybe I should quit the clubs at my school for now in the case I am moving to a totally different place so I could enjoy these "last" days in Tokyo metropolitan area. Meet other exchange-students, Japanese people, do some shopping, take lots of pictures etc. Have a good time, before I might end up somewhere else. YFU said that they had found a host-family candidate for me from another prefecture, but then something came up and they couldn't take me so I think that strengthens (is that how you write it? XDD) the idea that I'm most probably moving out from this prefecture. Oh, it seems like I should be moving on the 20th day, so 10 that's why it is 10 last days. :D GONNA ENJOY THE POSSIBLE LAST DAYS!!! PICTURES ARE GONNA COME SOMEDAY!!! Byeeeeeeeee!
Monday, July 5, 2010
BTW!!!!
WE ALSO SANG LORDI'S "HARD ROCK HALLELUJAH" WITH KAZU-CHAN (the high school 2nd year student :D)!!!!!!!!
Lies and Roses, Life isn't Brownies...
Whooooooops, been about a month since my last update, and even that wasn't a proper one.. XD So a lot has been happening so I didn't really have time to think about updating my blog, nor did I feel like writing anything. HA! You thought I had forgotten this blog already? Well, you were wroooooooooooooooong! So anyways, I am gonna tell you some basic details of what has happened.
Sooooooo, things started got complicated so I changed families. Well, I was the one who wanted to change the family but I am not going to write any details here, because I want to respect the previous family too. So after struggling I changed families. Well at the moment I am living in a baker family for a temporary time. I guess until my summer vacation starts, and after that I don't know where I am going to. I might be changing areas completely, I don't know. I don't think even YFU knows yet. So my current location at the moment is Matsudo City, Chiba. This is the central place of Matsudo-shi so there are lots of trains passing by (well I live like a 5-minute walk away from Matsudo station), so it's really convenient. There are trains leaving for Ueno quite often (you can get to Ueno station from Matsudo station in 20 minutes!!!), and I have been using that when going to Tokyo. And the price isn't too bad either. Well, to Akihabara it costs 290yen (less than 3€). For comparison, these days it would cost 4€ for me when going to Helsinki... OH AND ONE THING!!! THERE IS A STARBUCKS IN MATSUDO STATION!!!! Haven't been there yet, though... :P
Going back to the 12th (Saturday) of June, I met my friend and her friend (we are friends now!!! :D). They came to my school, because they wanted to see what a Japanese school is all about (well my school is not one of those ordinary Japanese schools :P). So they came to see the lessons, the school grounds etc. We had fun and it was weird to talk in Finnish at the school. :D
After the school went to... *tidididididii* yeah, TOKYO!!!!! :D At first we went to Takeshita-dori to do some shopping and we even came across some Finnish tourists! Scary... D888 Well, anyways, after shopping we went to KARAOKE!! Ahhahahaa, it was hilarious! We were singing about everything: K-pop, J-pop/-rock, Old American songs (for example Village People's Y.M.C.A.) and the main event: Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah"!!!!!!! We just started to shout in full voide and destroy our throats but it was FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! After that we went to an okonomiyaki restaurant on the side streets of Harajuku!! The route felt kind of suspicious (well duh, it was dark and we were somewhere in Harajuku XDD), but we found the restaurant after asking for help a couple of times. :D So, the food. Well, basically, IT WAS SOME REALLY DELICIOUS OKONOMIYAKI!!! We all three liked our okonomiyakis very much~. Ahahahaahaha, Laura said "ROHKEA ROKAN SYÖ!!!" (= "the one who dares, wins." or something like that XDD) all the time to Camilla while we were in the restaurant and I joined her. ::D We had a reason for it... :P After that we said goodbye knowing that the next time we would see would be in Finland after I have returned.
I guess nothing special happened in a while after that, only having things related to YFU, but nothing more about that subject. ;P WELL, I went to karaoke with this one high school 2nd year student (2nd year students are the same age as me) and we sang mostly rock, like X Japan etc. :D It was fun, hope we can go to karaoke once again in the near future~!
And now something a bit fresher (or is it more fresh?!?!?) things. I met with my Finnish friend Risto on the 3rd (Saturday) of July and we hanged around Tokyo. Well, at first we went to his dad's apartment (his dad works in Japan, because of his work, so Risto comes to visit his dad once in a while) in Chiyoda district. The apartment was so cool!!!! Well anyways, we were there for sometime planning a bit, and after that we left. At first we went to Shibuya. We bought maccha frapuccinos (THOSE ARE GODLY!!!!!) from Shibuya's crossing's Starbucks (yup, Starbucks!! :DD). After that we headed for karaoke. We sang for two hours and sang a lot of the same songs as I did with Camilla and Laura. :DD Meaning that we once again destroyed our throats by singing Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah". XDDD BUT THAT SONG IS A MUST!! You just have to sing it, because it is there! And yeah, it is lots of fun to sing it... ;D After that we went to Harajuku, because we were hungry so we headed towards the same okonomiyaki restaurant, where I was with Camilla and Laura. ::D And you know what, Risto too, loved it! Well okonomiyaki is one of the best dishes in Japanese cuisine. *drool* After that we were supposed to go to purikura, but after all, we did not. 8( My curfew was closening so we had to say goodbye and so we left, each to our own homes. We too, will probably meet again in Finland, well he is still in Japan, but I do not think we have time to meet again before he leaves on Thursday. Well anyways, we will meet again in Finland. :D
And one last thing!! I cut my hair!!!!! And I am going to get a new piercing to my ear. Even though, I don't know yet into which ear I want it. :P But Shibuya/Harajuku has just fabulous earrings in its shops!!! Oh btw, we are having a test week at the moment in my school (and other schools too, I guess) so I am only taking three English tests (only two to go anymore~!!) so I went to Akihabara today to search for a digital camera. I was searching for this one shop in Akihabara that is selling Canon's newest digicamera (at least for the "IXYS" or is it "IXUS" -series, well at least over here it is "IXY" -series) for the cheapest price. For comparison I went to another shop to look at its price for it and it was like 10,000 yen higher!!!!! That's almost 100€!!!! :OO Well, I walked a bit in the hellishly hot Akihabara, because I couldn't find the shop and finally when I found it, it said "web sale only"... You can guess my reaction... :D Well at least I ate some Oreos cookies on the side streets of Harajuku. <3
WELL THAT IS ABOUT EVERYTHING I GUESS!!! Phew, this took much more time than I thought it would, but at least I wrote it all!. And, you might be wondering why there are no pictures but it seems like blogspot is having problems or something, because the pictures showed only as codes, not as pictures...... So that's it children, I think I am gonna watch some "新世紀エヴァンゲリオン" (= "Neon Genesis Evangelion") now. I'll try to put some pictures later!
Sooooooo, things started got complicated so I changed families. Well, I was the one who wanted to change the family but I am not going to write any details here, because I want to respect the previous family too. So after struggling I changed families. Well at the moment I am living in a baker family for a temporary time. I guess until my summer vacation starts, and after that I don't know where I am going to. I might be changing areas completely, I don't know. I don't think even YFU knows yet. So my current location at the moment is Matsudo City, Chiba. This is the central place of Matsudo-shi so there are lots of trains passing by (well I live like a 5-minute walk away from Matsudo station), so it's really convenient. There are trains leaving for Ueno quite often (you can get to Ueno station from Matsudo station in 20 minutes!!!), and I have been using that when going to Tokyo. And the price isn't too bad either. Well, to Akihabara it costs 290yen (less than 3€). For comparison, these days it would cost 4€ for me when going to Helsinki... OH AND ONE THING!!! THERE IS A STARBUCKS IN MATSUDO STATION!!!! Haven't been there yet, though... :P
Going back to the 12th (Saturday) of June, I met my friend and her friend (we are friends now!!! :D). They came to my school, because they wanted to see what a Japanese school is all about (well my school is not one of those ordinary Japanese schools :P). So they came to see the lessons, the school grounds etc. We had fun and it was weird to talk in Finnish at the school. :D
After the school went to... *tidididididii* yeah, TOKYO!!!!! :D At first we went to Takeshita-dori to do some shopping and we even came across some Finnish tourists! Scary... D888 Well, anyways, after shopping we went to KARAOKE!! Ahhahahaa, it was hilarious! We were singing about everything: K-pop, J-pop/-rock, Old American songs (for example Village People's Y.M.C.A.) and the main event: Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah"!!!!!!! We just started to shout in full voide and destroy our throats but it was FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! After that we went to an okonomiyaki restaurant on the side streets of Harajuku!! The route felt kind of suspicious (well duh, it was dark and we were somewhere in Harajuku XDD), but we found the restaurant after asking for help a couple of times. :D So, the food. Well, basically, IT WAS SOME REALLY DELICIOUS OKONOMIYAKI!!! We all three liked our okonomiyakis very much~. Ahahahaahaha, Laura said "ROHKEA ROKAN SYÖ!!!" (= "the one who dares, wins." or something like that XDD) all the time to Camilla while we were in the restaurant and I joined her. ::D We had a reason for it... :P After that we said goodbye knowing that the next time we would see would be in Finland after I have returned.
I guess nothing special happened in a while after that, only having things related to YFU, but nothing more about that subject. ;P WELL, I went to karaoke with this one high school 2nd year student (2nd year students are the same age as me) and we sang mostly rock, like X Japan etc. :D It was fun, hope we can go to karaoke once again in the near future~!
And now something a bit fresher (or is it more fresh?!?!?) things. I met with my Finnish friend Risto on the 3rd (Saturday) of July and we hanged around Tokyo. Well, at first we went to his dad's apartment (his dad works in Japan, because of his work, so Risto comes to visit his dad once in a while) in Chiyoda district. The apartment was so cool!!!! Well anyways, we were there for sometime planning a bit, and after that we left. At first we went to Shibuya. We bought maccha frapuccinos (THOSE ARE GODLY!!!!!) from Shibuya's crossing's Starbucks (yup, Starbucks!! :DD). After that we headed for karaoke. We sang for two hours and sang a lot of the same songs as I did with Camilla and Laura. :DD Meaning that we once again destroyed our throats by singing Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah". XDDD BUT THAT SONG IS A MUST!! You just have to sing it, because it is there! And yeah, it is lots of fun to sing it... ;D After that we went to Harajuku, because we were hungry so we headed towards the same okonomiyaki restaurant, where I was with Camilla and Laura. ::D And you know what, Risto too, loved it! Well okonomiyaki is one of the best dishes in Japanese cuisine. *drool* After that we were supposed to go to purikura, but after all, we did not. 8( My curfew was closening so we had to say goodbye and so we left, each to our own homes. We too, will probably meet again in Finland, well he is still in Japan, but I do not think we have time to meet again before he leaves on Thursday. Well anyways, we will meet again in Finland. :D
And one last thing!! I cut my hair!!!!! And I am going to get a new piercing to my ear. Even though, I don't know yet into which ear I want it. :P But Shibuya/Harajuku has just fabulous earrings in its shops!!! Oh btw, we are having a test week at the moment in my school (and other schools too, I guess) so I am only taking three English tests (only two to go anymore~!!) so I went to Akihabara today to search for a digital camera. I was searching for this one shop in Akihabara that is selling Canon's newest digicamera (at least for the "IXYS" or is it "IXUS" -series, well at least over here it is "IXY" -series) for the cheapest price. For comparison I went to another shop to look at its price for it and it was like 10,000 yen higher!!!!! That's almost 100€!!!! :OO Well, I walked a bit in the hellishly hot Akihabara, because I couldn't find the shop and finally when I found it, it said "web sale only"... You can guess my reaction... :D Well at least I ate some Oreos cookies on the side streets of Harajuku. <3
WELL THAT IS ABOUT EVERYTHING I GUESS!!! Phew, this took much more time than I thought it would, but at least I wrote it all!. And, you might be wondering why there are no pictures but it seems like blogspot is having problems or something, because the pictures showed only as codes, not as pictures...... So that's it children, I think I am gonna watch some "新世紀エヴァンゲリオン" (= "Neon Genesis Evangelion") now. I'll try to put some pictures later!
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