30. Time for this blog to be updated.....

Sooo as i think u might have noticed i've been extremely lazy and unproductive in what comes to running this blog. I have no excuses.

And i had this wonderful idea of showing off all this cool stuff i've bought during last 3 months or so, but i just got an inspiration out of the blue and just had to get this post done :___D anyway, i've got a deadline approaching next morning (the report which i've barely started), so i dont use time to take any new pictures now. As it's been so long, i just write anything that comes to my mind that i've been up to lately!! Please enjoy.

So it's been nearly a month. Which means a lot of action, a lot lazying around and a lot of school. I've been quite unsocial, to be honest, and the nights spent out sitting in a pub discussing basic stuff and politics might not be the ones you're particularly interested in :D

Well as i said i went sky diving!! It's probably been the most amazing thing in this month!! but it really was amazing O.O" I mean, i was scared to death and shitting myself when the plane took off, but it was worth it :__D

We took a bus to this military base in 90 minutes drive away from Kingston, it was somewhere near Stonehedge (apparently u could've seen it up from the air but i didnt know that before it was too late XD). The journey started 6:30 saturday morning, but i slept for the whole time so it was ok. The ppl were amazing and the atmosphere in society was great. I think it helped we all were in the same situation and gonna do something none of us had done before, so it was easy to bond :33

First we had this ground training for 6 hours, they told us how to jump (the landing pattern, rigth jumping position etc) and how to change to the spare canopy in case the main one wouldn't work... it seems 1 in every 700 has a malfunction so we just had to hope and pray it wouldn't be any of us :_D on that day we couldn't jump (it was dark when we finished), so we headed back to leave our stuff in the barracks where we were supposed to sleep that night, in sleeping bags with tens of rndm ppl.

The most amazing part of the trip, at least for me, comes next. We walked back to the jumping centre, and the stars just...... lsdjlksajld *www* it was the most beautiful starry sky i've ever seen in my life, just left me breathless. We could see the milky way and all these fancy star-figures i couldn't recognise. Then we went to bar and had a great night there, but at some point during the night me and some guys went out and just looked to the space and into the stars, we were all a bit drunk so it all seemed even more amazing than before, we talked about life and i seriously was wondering why i'm studying politics when there's the whole amazing sky above us and ppl seem so small and meaningless.. Then there was a shooting star. Whooooommm. The perfect night created.

the training place

some bad-ass military plane *www*

this was the baby we jumped from~ (see the sexy coveralls we used<3)

sky full of jumpers~

going to the plane

hahahaha this happened when we went back to the pub after having seen the shooting star, all amazed by the beauty of the galaxy... this dude drinking beer from a shoe. welcome to england.

oh god it was so beautiful on the jumping morning ;; but cold, see the snow on the roof tops!!

then this plane because u just have to love planes and it's so top gun B)

then there are us in the plane...

...aaaand off we go!!

Then what have i been doing...? I've made some new friends and been to movies and stuff like that but i think that's it :__D pretty boring things lately.... BUT OH WAIT!

I did do something. This saturday i went to see jason mraz at the O2 arena!! It was quite extempore, i only booked the tickets the night before the show hehe. I really love his music and lyrics, but i didnt have any bigger expectations for the gig, however, i can say it made it to the TOP5 of all the lives i've ever been to, and i've been to some real kick-ass concerts so thats pretty well :DD

Though, it was pretty lonely there :___D the whole place was full of couples from every continent, nearly all the songs and speeches were about love on some level and there even was a proposal during the concert.... then there was me, awkwardly trying to enjoy the night amongst all those lovers. Well there was two empty seats right behind me and it gave me some hope; i kept on imagining it was booked by some couple who had had a terrible brake-up just before the night and now were crying their eyes off somewhere... Might be horrible, but we dont know if that was what had happened for real so i can keep my vision :_D

Note to self: do not go to these kinds of events on the days when you feel alone and miss someone.

outside

and in.

had a good view

Goooood it looked so wonderful when all these ppl were holding their phones up to the music ;; these kind of moments i really feel the awesomeness of the life

But musically and on every other level it was amazing and gets the iruze-approves stamp. Go if u have a chance and like his music.

Yepp. Then here's a perfect metaphor about the kind of life i lived in november....

Drinking my tea from this on computer....

...on the table that looks like this...

...in this mess i call my room. Mom, if u read this i do apologise.

Kingston Christmas market :33

On my way to school, leaves everywhere.

hahaha ok one day i went to walk around this cemetary, it's located _right _next to _our halls. you can see the building in the end of that path. im sure i couldn't sleep if i had a room facing this way just saying..

the clayhill cat :333 he lives on the campus and belongs to no-one so i took him up to keep me some company, he was so needy and happy to get some love ;;<3

hahaha then earlier today there was this incident when i passed the fire extinguisher.... it just fell from the wall and the alarm went off. now it's left this way.. for our luck we eat a lot of pizza in this flat and are lazy to clean so we had some pizza boxes we could use. i dont know if i should laugh or cry. i really should try and be more hardworking.

Also, sorry for the lack of self-pictures lately, next post will consist of them i promise. But while waiting here u have one! I dont prove-read this post to save some time this time, so please ignore the possible typos!! Oh, and happy December~ :33

24. Kapibara-san and a trip to Korea

Yesterrrrrday was great~<3

I made it out of house after the flu and it was nearly 20 degrees o(*,*)O' went to visit the school again with my ex area rep, she had to be there with her new exchange student and her host family~ it was so very nostalgic to listen how the principal told about the clubs and bunkasai and school trip and all :DD

They also took the sizes of the school uniforms for the two students and we waited in the school store (yep our school has its own store, there were even aoyama gakuin hello kittys O.O" i bought three pens and a hand towel ;3), i talked with the new teacher for an hour or so about how the world has become crazy and about the money situation etc, freedom and human rights... So i guess im a better person now haha

a boring-me-to-death look but i slept in late and had to run >,<

from the school shop!!

Annnnnnywayyy, after the school part we had a lunch with my area rep (soe-san from now on) and her son's wife who is now staying at their place because she has a 7-months-old baby and her own parents work so it's easier that way, it was some fancy sobayasan in omotesando. They were planning a trip to Thailand on Golden Week so we also went to the travel agency to book the right trip with the guided sightseeing and stuff, as you may know japanese love those kind of things..... I even heard there are Europe trips with 4 countries where you stay 2 days in each and see EVERYTHING with super schedule and then are dead in the end of each day ;__D but many ppl only book the travel with flights and hotel, so that there will be a guide that takes everyone to the hotel and after that you're on your own. Many times you might spare some money with those kind of 'package-trips'.

So what i had forgotten to announce here is, that i booked a trip to Korea about a month ago!! I'll fly from Osaka to Seoul on 30th April, and then come back to Japan on 7th May. Gonna be so greatttttttt~ The flights are from osaka, so after having returned to Japan i thought id also check out kansai a bit before returning to tokyo!! have never been there before, so will be interesting!! So it would be two weeks of travelling around and having some crazy time alone, and then back to Finland on 16th May.

At first i really didnt have any purpose to travel, but then i found this amazing blog that gave me some inspiration and made me wanna travel so badly, to take everything from these 3 months. So i booked the flights from the korean cheap flight company (that's the reason you cant go from tokyo) and a friend that made her exchange to korea told me a great youth hostel in the seoul center in the best place possible, or that's what she says, i dont have the slightest idea of anything that has something to do with korea, so it will be fun to see how it differents from japan! I have this image that koreans are more lively and vibrant, and the language sounds so exotic, i love it!! i wonder if i should learn the hangul marks before going hmmm.

So that's the news from here! One of the other reasons of taking off is that lately i've become more and more sure i'll go to kingston to study that fucking expensive course, so once i'll be there i wont have any money to travel for a while! So now i'll just have to take every opportunity i have, and yeah, it's much cheaper to travel to asia from here than from finland. I only paid 250 euros for the flights, and the hostel will be about 80 euros for a week, including breakfast O.O cheap!!

Yesterday i just got some travelling fever (i dont know if you can say that in english?!?) in that travel agency, and the wife of soe-san's son was kind and gave me a guide book, so i guess i should start planning a bit :DD 7 days of seoul!! i want to meet some friends too, so i hope you'll make have some time for me then ;) be prepared for giving me some guidance~

Oh i also got an invitation for dinner some day and an old phone she didnt need anymore that you can WATCH TELEVISION WITH ;__;<3<3 god bless you-i-dont-remember-your-name-but-yeah and your baby (  ´,`)~

some korean beer we got from the travel agency!! how kind :3

the phone and the guide book from the year 2000 but well the gesture was kind

aoyama gakuin 'goods'.... god, im fangirling my own school. guess i went to the right country as i fell in love with my school then...

i was shocked as i realized how big contrast there is in my hair O.O" there shouldnt be any XD the down seems nearly brown!!

see?? maybe i should colour it even darker hmmmm

Today there is a storm outside, so i just decided to stay home plus i think yesterday my flu got a bit worse because i went out sooooo another day at home....... but i took all out of it, i went to by some food (srsly, it was scary to ride a bike in that wind and rain) and WINE ;_;<3 when i was sick i bought a memembership for nordic tv and watched too many romantic comedies (tho friends with benefits was great, i might be in love with mila kunis aaaaa), so tonight i'll watch fast and furious and get a little drunk alone, eat pizza after a month fuck japanese pizza, tastes terrible, but well, it still is pizza and have a party yea.

oh btw i saw this on the grocery store and couldnt help laughing XDDD toilet paper with ocha flavor?!? (ocha=green tea) even the colour is green ;_D

the cheap wine i bought, but it's not that bad at all!!

And there will be my new buddy, i bought her yesterday and my life standard really arouse ;__; welcome to the family, i have wanted you for 3 long years and at last you're mine ;_;<3<3<3 lets live happy lives together~ i really needed something cute and fluffy now that my ruska puppy is not here D::: aaa i heard she's sleeping in my room every day how adorable is that ;_;_;;_;_;

she needs a name, now it's just howaito-chan (the white ones are called that way and i preferred this to brown)

she starts to learn my habits already ;3

I also heard my dad's bought a maasto mönkkäri, no idea what it could be in english but a picture is more than thousand words they say! I just can't wait to go for a ride with THAT!!!! wanna ride it in the forest, the model seems to be really good even in the woods!!! Okay i wont say it's the same as having a motor bike, one of my everlasting dreams, but anyway it's something XD aaaaaa need - to - go - for - a - ride .

Oh, sakura should be opening their flowers today, i dont know if the storm affects somehow, but anyway after a week it should be as its most beautiful!!! cant wait for that!!

Have good time and dont catch a spring flu!!!! (o ・,・ o)

22. YFY spirit and a cold

Hullo, long time no write.

So i was in the YFU Japan arrival orientation as a returnee for five sleepless days and just came home late in the evening of the 24th, that's the reason for not having updated lately. At the very moment i feel like a shit: my head hurts and throat is full of crap >,<" i ate some medicines yesterday so the fever is gone luckily---!!

So time to spend some time at home and cure this i think. Tho tomorrow i have no choice but to leave the house at least for some grocery shopping. Minus sides of living alone i guess.

Anywayzzz, it always gives me spirits to go on after having took part to a yfu orientation!! The energy, the hunger of life, the tension, the high hopes and excitement that you can feel in every movement of the students makes me try harder, to live deeper and to appreciate every single thing i have. It makes me more positive and gives strength to keep on going and trying the impossible. Sounds surreal but that's how i feel for weeks after an orientation session!! And there you have your own little spotlight and can raise your self-esteem as you get to stand in front of all the ppl and know you are the specialist in what you talk about and know that every word you say is important for those ppl to hear and that they really do listen to what you have to say!!

Plus the international atmosphere, interesting returnees that have the exchange experience of their own and can speak several languages *ww* makes me wanna travel and see everything and and and aaaaaa<3 makes me be more positive.

This time it also was nice to see how capable of speaking i actually am!! I got like hundreds of praises of my japanese skills, heard i have 'no accent' and speak 'like a native' from many many times from dozens of returnees/yfu staff/area reps, and of course i know it's not the truth and i have fucking much to learn but it's still nice to hear tho!! Every night we had a quite official meeting and i hadn't the slightest problem to catch up on the topics (  ´,`)~<3

But it makes me sad that once i'll be back in finland this all will vanish again for a while :/ and i cant write kanji anymore even if i could read them --__--"

There were some returnees that had been in my arrival orientation three years ago too, there were such a great ppl and some of which i really, really do look up to. I hate keigo (the the the hmmm... official and polite language you use when you talk to ppl you dont know/sempais etc) when there is no real respect behind it and when the person you talk to is only a year or two older than you and basically in the same kind of life situation, but to some of the ppl in the orientation i would use it even if it wasnt for the 'rules' and manners. I love the feeling you get when you manage to make a proper conversation with someone you respect, when you make a joke/good point etc and get good laughs for that, it just makes my day!! I wonder if someone would look up to me too. Those kind of moments are the ones that make me love doing substitutions in schools hehe

Anyway, when the camp was over and students on their ways to homes we had a little after party among some of us returnees where everyone were falling asleep in some point of the evening :__D we went to eat at first, then to a british pub i really fell in love with, and in the end to bowling and i really sucked XDD what happened to my once so great bowling skills?!? Before we even started drinking i was laughing at every single thing because of the tiredness, i mean i had slept for maybe a 20 hours during the last 5 days and ran from one place to another the whole week, had to use thinking skills and be social whole time etc. Tho the aarcs who were the 'bosses' this time slept even less, for like 2-3 hours a night >,<" japanese working morality is high. otsukaresama for all of us.

Hmmm i dont know what exactly should i tell about the camp so here some pics :D

The olympic center where it all took place. so nostalgic, this is the very place i first came to in japan, even the rooms we slept in this time were same and aaaa i still remember the frustration cuz we could see the tokyo's high buildings and lights from there but it was forbidden to sneak out... i guess if i hadnt been that young and naive enough to actually listen to those rules back then no-one would have noticed anything...

Rajio taisooooooo XD so the traditional japanese sports training :_D it was so funny hahahaha the faces of the students XD some of the returnees in the pic!

This this this^ i wanna taste every kitkat ever made ;_;<3

Japanese cultural lessons!

The last night we arranged this farewell party thing where every country had to presentate their own culture with a performance :D we made our own too, it was a surprise tho :D fashion show with a school uniform couple (me and andre[half german so that's why the non-japanese name]), otaku couple (ami-chan and shuutaroo hahahahaha he was like a real otaku lollll) and then yukata couple (yuumen and marei)! We all did some dance hahaha practising was so much fun, otakus danced the caramel dancen, the traditional japanese bon-odori and us two tsukematsukeru :__D

I have a video of us dancing it in our uniforms but last time i tried to uploaded a video here i heard there had been problems watching it so i guess i dont upload it then :/// here is the song tho, the part we danced starts 2:22 a little kawaii to this blog too

tsuuukematsuukematsukematsukeeeeeeee

Ami-chan with the programme

the whole group of exchange students! we took our own japan group picture too but not with my mobile so i dont have it yet D:

Team otaku XD soryy i just had to, hope it's okay? XD

the last morning's feelings of departure.

returnee derpy faces after staying awake for 5 days

some japanese tongue twisters! we tried to get off the nervousness of the students just before meeting the host families :D 

A hug between the family and the student ;_; we all were so moved by this moment, my face hurt after smiling too much and some were crying and aaaa. moving. It was in the same hall i first met my family too (  ´,`)

To the afterparties!! At saizeriya (a really cheap japanese family restaurant group) lol

This!!!!!! The atmosphere was wonderful and aaaa!!!! it was 3pm when we started drinking tho XDD but from 4pm on there was a happy hour and everything was so cheap :D

kampaiii

bowl bowl bowl

hahaha japanese super bowling speed?

I'm the one in the upper row, compare to marei's (the 3rd from up) score......

I had to upload this too!! Yesterday morning, i had stayed up until 6am way to cure your flu and lack of sleep and suddenly the sun was rising and it was really beautiful ;3

Too bad i didnt get the puris we took together, only the paper version and yeah i also lack the group photo :/ Well we decided to make hanami afterwards with YFU returnees will be so much fun :3 and we also made plans of everyone coming here and we'd just drink the whole night XD sounds fun for me~

Then i got this 11 facts challenge from cannibalcoast and at first i thought i'd put it in this post but since it's already this long it would be too much for one post i think! so tho i already wrote it i think i'll post it tomorrow lol i still have the post of suski's and elina's visit, the food diaries, and some other stuff i forgot to tell about my plans here to write! so look forward for them too~

And oh, i thought i should maybe update this blog a bit since i dont even have a proper profile tab... Well we'll see we'll see. today i'm just planning to die slowly and get bored here alone o/ you guys have a better day