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!!

11. Dear My Tokyo

I'm sorry I didnt have any time for a post before leaving Finland (my packing was so chaotic, you should have seen it XD literally started 3 hours before walking out of the door...).

Love my luggage bag~

So, what should i say now? Here i am, in Tokyo center with my host family, sitting on a heat-carpet (i adore these things, have to get one to Nekotalo too ;ww;) in our japanese-stylish room, where I will live for the next 2 weeks. The flight was so much better than i thought, the food was actually good and i had plenty of room as the next seat was empty~ I didnt even get bored tho there were no movies i wanted to see o,o just let my mind wander and it was really pleasant just to think about all that's going on in my life!! Some quality time with yourself~ I sure will have a lot of it from now on ;33

Yeah... I dont know how i feel about this all, being back after a while etc. Last year it was amazing. I felt nothing had changed and everything was the way it used to be and aaaaa. I remember being so glad to be here again, to be with all these ppl again.

Before i left now, everybody kept asking me why on earth i was leaving and what i would do here, just hang around for 3 months??! "Well, yeah.... i suppose.. D::", that was answer. I hadn't slightest idea myself. I still do not. In Finland i was terrified. What exactly would i do with all the time, all 'alone' in the world's biggest city?? On the airport i found myself thinking what a stupid decision it actually had been to leave after all.

Still i knew i had to do it. I dont know why, it had just been like that for ages. But the moment the plane took off i felt the freedom. I felt the time and i felt the adventure ahead of me, i felt all the heavy things falling to the ground and i left them there in Finland. Free from duties, free from feeling bad for anybody, free to go! 90 days of plan-less time, an own apartment and the city with innumerable possibilities (lets forget in here i only have a tourist visa and can therefore get no job :-----------------))))) ).

The own apartment -thing is what gives me the greatest pleasure. I've never lived by myself, but am a kind of person who needs his own pace and time. You dont have to listen to no-ones crap or give a fuck about anyone else's business. Of course it takes much more to keep the place clean, you have to cook etc, but still. And it's maybe a good thing to get some practise for your 'own life' this way: 2,5 months and that's it.

I have a feeling tho, that it wont take long until i'll move out in Finland too, especially if i get to study in Britain... I'll start to study for the future, my life will be different from now on. I dont feel as a child anymore. From last fall i've been doing daily work and i remember paying my own costs (well not food etc, but the clothes, the bus fares and such) for a looong time already. I feel like taking care of myself now, I feel it's the time for me to become an 'adult', whatever it then means.

Huuhh, now that i think of it, this all sound so very corny. For those who have been reading everything (or even parts of it), it might be good to remind i've been awake for about 30 hours by now, yepp. I sure will get some sleep after the dinner, asap...

But oh i must not forget to tell that tomorrow morning they'll start selling the GazettE's 10th year anniversary tickets *www* i will be there, no matter of the costs!!! Will be so much fun ;---;<3<3<3

So tomorrow that's the plan for the morning ;__D less stays unknown~

I'll keep you aware of my movements B))))

Oh, I still have to post a pic of the things Sara bought me when she came to see me off ;_______; wasnt expecting anything, so sweet ;-;<3 The necklace is for safe travelling~ i'm wearing it right now, and thinking about you babe ;)

A survival kit for a Finn! (i bought some more sisu and fazer chocolate on the airport too heha :D)