26. SEOUL SEVEN NIGHTS pt1

I'm still here in Osaka, and since this is the last night of my little trip, I chose to make a little post for that!! And as i'll go back to Tokyo tomorrow night and only have 4 more days left in Japan, i can't guarantee another post before being back to Finland. Every single night is full booked with seeing friends and partying, saying the last good byes once again. For a while, i mean.

It's already been so many times I've had to leave important places and ppl and i can say.. you'll get very used to saying good-byes. It doesnt hurt anymore. it's just... okay, bye, see you later some day. Cause you know that day will come, and you know nothing's gonna change much. Or that's what it feels like when you think about all afterwards, even if you used to think nothing would be as it used to be when you'll meet again. Mostly it always will tho.

Kinda deep talk huh? XD Actually i'm on a great mood this night, having my own private party with Vampire Diaries' new episode i still hadn't had time to watch (it was so greatttttttt), and i bought some drinks from konbini that's next to jenni's home and yeah!! Now listening to good music and writing this~

So I'll give you a brief diary of the days i spent in Seoul, and include say 2 pics for each day okay? So it wont get too long!

May 1st
Got to the Kansai International Airport two hours before check-in even started, even once i was on time somewhere! Mostly thank's to the night bus but wellllll. Got to the hostel and it was more cleaner i had thought, took a quick shower and went out to explore the surroundings. The area i stayed is called Hongdae, known of its MANY clubs and lively student life, so it was a perfect place to stay! Bought shoes and 5 rings on the first day heha. Then to sleep as I was very tired after travelling for so many hours.

Leaving home at Soshigayaookura station on the 31st.

Shinjuku at midnight before getting to the bus, love this pic (took with the iphone tho!!) and i hadnt took any pics of the hostel room (basically just the beds XD) so take this instead.

May 2nd
On the breakfast i met 3 japanese employers staying in Seoul too, and got invited to walk the city with them!! It was a good deal, since i really had no idea of Seoul and they even had a co-worker with them who was Korean, so she showed us the places pretty well and we had someone to tell us what we were gonna eat etc :DD First we took the subway (cheap cheap cheap) and went somewhere near city-hall station, there is an amazing river (which's name i forgot..... :----)) ) and some office buildings and shops, then somewhere quite near a tourist place called Unzadon or something (these all are the names japanese are using so there might be mistakes XD), bought some souvenirs (=food). Then it was time for the lunch, so we took a taxi to a fine dog-meat restaurant. Yummy, but if you ask about the taste it was kinda.. it didnt have any specific taste :o expected something more of it..! After having eaten we tried to go and see the imperial palace but it was closed, so after walking myongdong a bit (popular shopping area for young ppl) we went up to the Seoul tower to look the city lights and aaaa it was fucking beautiful. Here i had already fallen in love with Seoul and seen pretty much since it's not that a big city after all, and still had the whole holiday before me. iinaaa.

At the river, you can see one of the jpn guys i was hanging with in the corner.

A korean little boy

I hope my baby dog will forgive me this XD

On the bottom of the Seoul (N) tower, there was also a light show shortly after this pic was took!!

7,068.98 km away from Helsinki, above the city lights.

We still went to see the Nandumon(??) market at night before heading back to the hostel, but there wasnt too much anything. And yeah, more than 2 pics.....

May 3rd
I slept longer than others and then met them up at the subway after the lunch time, we went to the fish market in the south side of the city. Was so worth of going!! You could choose the fishes you wanted to eat and they 'cooked' them for you at the market restaurant, but we ate it mostly raw, actually it was only cut in small pieces so the fishes/strange-shaped-creatures were still moving when you put them in your mouth. Mmmh. After that the rest of the group met up with some foreign friends and went to watch a musical, but i went to see the Idae station, where my friend Anna had told they'd sell cheap clothes, and i really wanted to shop. Actually i ended up eating for the whole time but it was good food so :DD In the night an Indian man (who i personally strongly disliked and really had to work hard to keep my mouth shut and stop saying some very arrogant comments) joined  us to have a lunch and then we went to walk the Toodaemon market or something. Well well.

Some bunny aunt on the subway.

The fish market was nice experience!! Only when i went to the toilet and there were rats it wasnt that nice :_D

These are the guys we ate.

For the japanese ppl last night (see the indian man in the corner).

My beautiful nameless river at night.

May 4th

The first day alone in the city!! So it was time for some shopping at last! I also went to the Lotte hotel to book a trip for DMZ (demilitarized zone between north and south koreas) for the next day! But this day i only shopped and ate :D

Under the hotel there was a duty free where i went for a walk but couldnt afford anything

Myongdong, bought that top!

<3<3

Some rndm commercial at myongdong :_D this is for oona or someone if it's someone you fancy.

I still havent uploaded the rest of the pictures, but there's some hard core partying coming so hang on :DD I'll put the four last days to the next post!

Oh, I also confirmed my university place in London for the next autumn so i guess i'm going then...!! Here I come, british accent and new adventures!!! It will be fun to learn more about the western culture after having got to know the japanese one.

Here two songs that are just like my mood right now~ The first one i just discovered today, and the second one (selena gomez, i know... but listen to it the lyrics are good and actually it's the first song i ever heard from her :_D) i got linked in facebook some weeks before!! So listen to the both and cheer for the night.

never let your fear decide your fate

I say ya kill your heroes and

fly, fly babe don't cry

No need to worry cuz everybody will die

Every day we just

go, go, babe don't go

Don't you worry

Things you swear you'll do before you die

But you're too damn scared to fly

Come alive, let the moment take you, lose control tonight.

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)