27. Long time no post - greetings from London

Sooo, it's been like.. five months? Anyway a long time's passed since the last post, so sorry for that! I havent just felt like writing, or those times I did I just lacked the motivation and the longer it's been the harder it got to start so... ;___D 

But now we're here~ I'm glad if there's still ppl out there following >,<"

Long story short: after the Seoul trip (see the last post from May) I stayed at friend's house in Osaka, just for a few days and cuz it was my first time in Kansai I made some day trips and went to see Kyoto and Nara, alone. Had a great time and back in Tokyo the last two weeks were quite busy, I went out a lot, met some friends and so on. . . Well on 15th, then, I returned to Finland and started working right away. The summer was busy as hell, but at the same time things couldn't have gone better!!

I worked, at McDonalds (the one on the Mannerheimintie in Forum) and then in August I also took part in a medical research that ran through the whole month, we had to go there 4 times and stay overnight, then in the morning we had to inhale some asthma medicine and give blood for the tests. I dont love needles but they paid pretty well, i got like 800 euros only for that, so it was worth it B)) at the same time i continued cleaning on weekends and did a few afternoon shifts on my mom's work place, so some weeks were pretty hard to organize, but well, i diiiid it. And i really needed to get all the money possible for this Autumn!!

Yep, so i'm sitting in my own small room right now, i live in the halls at the university, so we're 4 ppl sharing the flat. I like my room actually, it's the third floor so the view is nice and no-one can see in heha, i also get some sports done while running up and down the stairs. Plus we only share the kitchen so i have my own bathroom and all~

I don't remember how much i told about the courses i applied to, but in the end i decided for Kingston University that's right next to London, or actually this is a part of Greater London, but Kingston upon Thames is a small town so I dont actually feel like i'd live in London. By train it's only about 20 minutes so it's really close tho!! Aaand about the course, it's a three-years BA course in Drama and International Relations, so basically I study both subjects 50/50, Monday and Tuesday I have my IR lectures and from Wednesday to Friday I'm studying drama.

I can tell more later, the meaning of this post was just to tell you im still alive and kicking, and that im gonna keep on running this blog :DD yey! I'm too lazy to clean my room and take proper pictures right now (it looks horrrrrible in here, i have to jump and make acrobatics just to get to the window and table....), so i'll just put here one i sent home before~

I'll give you some more in the future ;D this doesnt yet have all my personal stuff so it looks kinda cold..

I haven't yet decided what to write in the next post, but if you have any ideas, just speak out and i can tell about the things you want!! Again, sorry for not having updated even once during the summer :__D But i hope you guys enjoyed ur holidays etc, now lets try to work hard this autumn!!!

aaaa im so glad i got this done, feel so great for updating again (  ^,^) u'll here about me soon, it's a promise now ok!!

18. My home?

So. SO.

What should i say, living on my own now, near the city center...!! I have been going through so many feelings this day, that im feeling a little dizzy, at 7 o'clock i was ready for bed XDD but i made it through and now im just chilling around the house with some music and WIRELESS connection. Bless you.

Okaasan and I left home about 2pm and took all the luggage (one big trunk, one smaller, a guitar and some smaller bags lol) here. Met the host woman who seems to speak finnish too (i dont know since we were all there and spoke in japanese as okaasan doesnt know any finnish). She was somehow... dunno, not smiley and polite like ppl here normally are, but a little awkward and.. yeah. just awkward. And there are no cats D::: It's just called Nekotalo (a cat house) cuz the owner likes cats, it seems.

Anyway she left us here, and we started checking out the places. Maybe some of you remember, but the first 9 days i'll stay at a bigger apartment, not in a single room (another guest will be there in the beginning, so i got this without any extra expenses for the first beginning). The house is really old and kinda dusty, and has many sections so i have no idea what's going on in another end of the apartment. Alone this would be absolutely too big, but luckily Suski and Elina will pay me a visit from 3rd on so it will be perfect then~

I really have deep feelings for okaasan, it was so... cant find the words but after the woman had gone she looked at me and asked me to come back home and stay til my friends come, since it's all too cold and lonely to be alone in here ;_;<3<33<3 i was like....... yeah. but i decided to stay for a night anyway and look how it would go. So she made me promise i'd call in the morning and tell how it was, and then maybe come and stay home XDDD<3

After we had put the rice cooker on we went to see the shootengai and shop for food, she told me how to cook everything and wanted to get me a hot carpet but we couldnt find any and i was hungry so we gave up.

I have to make a whole entry of the Koenji shootengai, its amazing amazing amazing amazing!!! And i dont need to cook since they're selling everything so cheap and aaaa i just love the place!!! The central 'city' is so full of small alleys full of places to eat and drink full of tastes and smells full of ppl that it will take me a good while to get bored in here!!!! I-m-in-heaven. And the older lady who sold me my piiman (i dont know the word in english, a kind of small, green paprika and you usually fill them with meat and fry), pumpkin salad (my everlasting love) and fried fish, also gave us some pieces to taste and some food without any cost \(    ´,`)/// wanna be my girlfriend??

Can you imagine the whole dinner with 360 yen?!?! And it made me feel like i'd have actually cooked by myself cuz i ate them at house with the self-cooked rice muahhahhaa. I can afford take-in food everyday ;_;<3 dream came true. Hahaha only speaking about food aren't I????


Then after having come back to Nekotalo Okaasan basically warmed me the stuff we had bought, a full pot of tea and made everything ready for me ::;___;;; i really cant....!!!! too much of love for one day D:::::: I dont know, maybe this sounds a bit sad but i am so much closer to okaasan than my own mom.... we have conversations of everything, okaasan is proud of the things i've achieved and laughs at my mistakes etc, knows the foods i love and takes care of everything, dont know...... back in finland we dont really spend time together and if i'd go and speak to my parents without a specific reason it would be strange. :/// makes me sad tho.

Well well. Tomorrow we should have gone to the bar but i really am not familiar with the place yet and near the house there was a sign that said to beware of someone taking you or your stuff so i decided it's not a good time to come back home late alone XD Yet. Chikako could have come here in the morning but i said its okay cuz she took a night shift at work so we'll go next friday then~~

Hahaha, now I'm tired again. But i need to give you the pics of the house!! urgh i have to upload them first f*ck this shit im too lazy for this now here we go ^____^

The living room kitchen combination.

Kitchen half.

The next room (Suski's and Elina's beds were there already~)

bathroom

Again livin

Entrance!! (sorry bout the lights >,<)

'My room'.

My new love ;_;<3 we'll have a wonderful short-period relationship, it's so cold here and when you put your legs down the table they are warmed :3

....that's how the place looks already XD

I'm so thankful there's a television, you dont feel alone at all while having it as a background noise. Just like at home, even tho you didnt actually watch the program~ Oh btw we had snow yesterday!!! And today 15 grades again o.o

When i opened my window in the morning!!

So strange!!

And interesting right? XD

I still have to link here a song for you to listen, I dont care of the band at all, but this one song is good, it's my feelings 100% at the moment. 100%. Well im having 5-room disco but you'll get the point XDD enjoying of sapporo lemon sake some previous guest had left here, thanks to him, and dancing around by myself~

Enjoy your days!!!! (o*ww*o)