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)

10. Ready.... steady.....

Aaaah I'm so relieved right now! My host family just answered my mail and asked what time my plane will land in Friday~ ;33 They said everybody's looking forward meeting me again and aaaa I love okaasan ;_;<3 The mail was so her style, she warned me of influenza (apparently in Japan it's worse than in 10 years!) and reminded me I still have my old bathrobe there so obaachan (my host-granny :3 love her! when she doesnt try to feed me to death that is....) already washed it ready for me!!

Everything feels so nostalgic, I really am going back!!!

Last year otoosan (host-daddy) had took a day off when I went there so that they could have helped me with my luggage by coming all way to Narita, but I said I'd be fine with coming home by myself, I didnt want to be a burden (we dont have car there)! And now they asked me again if I need some help XD<3

I'm going to see them so sooooon cant believe this is happening aaaa!!

All the worries have vanished, but I still have this guitar issue I told about yesterday... to take or not to take with. It would also be good to activate my Japanese a bit before leaving ::___DD I am not lying when I say I havent spoken for over a year! But after a few days it already started to come back the last time, so maybe there's still some hope left for me......

THEN the pics I promised in yesterday's post! Pieces of my last week~

Lets start with the new DTM! The place was cool and coctail-ish, but somehow I preferred the old one.. hmm. Well the staircase is marvellous!

Cheetah couture!!

Crowns!! You know I start to think it actually looks a bit of my style XD well well.

The middle floor.

My hunny baby wauwa Ruska ;wwww; we went to vote together ;33

Eating out on Monday, at Iguana. The wine was great! As a food I had a bean burrito.

Sara on tuesday~ we were waiting to get into the tattoo shop.

Latest purchases! Skin tonic from Nivea, one-day contact lenses for the trip and a portable DVD/CD player/recorder for my laptop!! I'm in love with this machine, I havent had much time to learn how to use it perfectly tho XD

The little elephant is a souvenir slash birthday present Sara bought me from Sri Lanka!! And I got this month's history magazine she already read~ I love history.

Yesterday(?) morning!

Me and Ruska at the moment :3 I'm gonna miss herrrrr ;_;

My daily work-look... Trying to look professional and mature XD

Early in the morning I'm just too lazy to do anything special, most of the days I dont even use any make up. This one is today^

Now I'll head to Suski's, but I sure will post again soon now that the journey is coming closer and closer~ Have a great weekend you all!!

9. One week to go

Like it says in the headline, I have exactly 7 days until leaving! Actually this time next week I'll already be closer to Japan than Finland, whuuuuuuuuhh!!!

So what I've been doing pretty much is working, partying and seeing friends now that I still am here! Last two days I've been having this feeling I'd have so much to do, packing etc, answering mails and making sure I have everything ready for the journey, but always when I think probably, I notice there is pretty much nothing I could do XD an unpleasant feeling D:

The one-year-insurance I took started from today, I went to the dentist to get my teeth checked after work (I had had some ache in one tooth >,<") and did some bank stuff too! So it's been a productive day altogether~

Til now I was thinking of taking my own guitar with me to Tokyo, but I just checked the prizes from Finnair's homepage and it would cost 56 euros direction !??! Maybe I should just buy a new one there.... my budget would love it. Well I have still time to make the decision but I just cant stay 3 months without being able to play >,<

In the weekend I also started to think about the earthquakes and stuff, how I really dont have anything figured out for my stay, just hanging around and meeting ppl... I need things to do to keep myself happy, so there were some days I was pretty worried about that all :S also my host family hasnt answered to my mail where i asked if the day of my arriving would be good....!!

Now it's fine tho :DD I'm starting to get exhilarated, I just love the thought of myself, alone in my own apartment and own lazy days, own plans and own decisions! Well Tokyo is neither new nor unknown, more like a familiar home city, but I love it deeply, and I do count myself as a city person rather than someone who enjoys living in the woods, so enjoyment is guaranteed~

I guess we'll just let see what those 3 months have to offer---! Anyway I'm pretty sure it will be something more than i'd get by only staying here in Finland. At least I expect and hope so.

OH and I've already talked with some of my japanese friends and decided meeting days etc ;www; it is so absurd, I'm still in Finland but have done plans for my life in Japan!! makes this all feel like it's happening for real XD

The week has gone by so so fast, during the days i've been working hard (today i got a substitution in history and tomorrow in music :33) and every evening has been filled with dates with friends. Cant believe it's Friday tomorrow...! Not complaining tho :D My last weekend in here for a little while!!

On saturday my friend Jaana will have a house-warming party and then on sunday I'll hang out with some other friends, so i still will meet the most of my friends before leaving. Tomorrow i'll see Suski after a looooong time (well after a week i think..? thats quite something) and we'll watch moviezzzzz.

I'll make another post soon and put the pics from this week in it, i'm so tired right now ('' z ,z)
So good night now!!!!

8. Working, vampires and volunteering

A while's passed since my last post again, it's been busy-busy days (mostly). I started writing this in Wednesday night but was too tired to add the photos etc then, so dont be confused if I'm writing like it would be Wednesday lol. Here we go~

I've started doing those substitutions for schools and I really have to say I actually do enjoy of it!! You are the authority, the work is irregular and it's nice to talk with the teenagers (and who would have believed that). Even the salary is good so I can say I'm happy with my current job!

Thinking of it more I must be crazy to go back to school even after graduating...

The only minus side is that you only get the offers in the same morning or if your lucky the night before. Today I didn't have any offers, so I decided to stay home and wind down a bit for a chance. The weather was the most beautiful so I took a long drive and then just stayed at home, watching................ Vampire Diaries.

So we got to the next topic of the post. I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED BUT I'M ALL CRAZY ABOUT THE SERIES AND ANDANDANDand ;__________;

I never planned it to go like this, even my mom thinks it's weird I like the series XD We've watched the first and second seasons now with Kukka and Iris, today 10 episodes...................... T______T ten episodes of teen drama...... Yes I must have become lunatic.

But as we just finished the second season I decided to wait a little before progressing to the third one. Need to slow down a little bit lol ::__D I'm becoming pathetic. (note from friday: i already am impatient and feel like i should watch more XD have----to----keep on----------fighting)

However, on Saturday I took the 6:30am train and headed for Jyväskylä, where this year's YFU exchange students had their mid-year orientation!!

I was one of the 4 volunteers so I had a big part there, I leaded some workshops and so on but regardless of responsibilities, those kind of orientations always make me happy to be there ;3 I'm still on a great mood after four days, amazing  to see how the students have made so much progress both in their Finnish and with their personalities!

The cottage was in the middle of the forest and we even had to cook for ourselves :__D traditional finnish food....

Hahaha two of the girls love finnish metal so we dressed Sora and Scott like fans and even got them to try make-up and styled their hair : D

It's freaking cold these days, in Jyväskylä it was -30 degrees but here in Helsinki region it's not quite that bad... Still freezing.

The weekend will be busy cuz my schedule is filled with partying yey \o/ today I should have been in DTM opening party but was too lazy to get my ass out of the house...... well maybe it's just good cuz tomorrow I'll have to work again!! need to make as much money as possible!

Oh, I have done something useful even today, I called around different companies to get a travelling insurance and ordered some contact lenses for the trip~

And everything from here on is written on Friday:

They sent me an invite for an interview/audition from one of the schools I applied in Britain ;_;<3<3 that's a good news, but the bad news is, that I'll be in Japan at the very time... But I'll send them a mail and ask if it would be possible to do that through the skype or something XDD............ We shall wish for the best!

The schools I applied for were all drama/international relations, this one would be in Wales and the course is called Theatre, Television and Perfofrmance ('*w*') sounds so exciting!!

Today I shoulda worked again but in the morning I didnt feel well at all so I stayed in bed D::: but I'm better now thank god and after the post I'll start choosing clothes for the night, we'll go check out the new DTM today and before that go to Erica's for starters once again heha. So jealous for those who live right in the city center!

I  love the song and the melody is just my mood right now! Tonight we gonna dance dance dance~ you can ignore the video if you like, i didnt watch it XD

Have a great weekend you all~~☆ not even 2 weeks and I'll be back to Japan!!!!!

7. 24 days left until Tokyo

Like I promised I'll share my plans for the trip this time~!!

I bought the tickets earlier and my travelling days will be 16.2. and 16.5.! I'll stay exactly 3 months, because with the travelling visa you can only stay 90 days continuously. I got luck with the tickets, Finnair started a campaign just when I was going to buy them so the straight flights were only 590 euros(!!!), which is the cheapest I've ever heard of ;3

Sooooo I'll land in Narita on 17th February and then head for Setagaya, where my host family lives ;3 I'll stay there for about two weeks but from the 1st of March I've booked a room in this Nekotalo I already mentioned earlier, the place where only Finnish ppl can stay. My rent is quite expensive for such a small room, 80,000 yen a month for 19 square meters with a smaal kitchen and a tiny bathroom..... But for Tokyo I think it's not that bad at all, it's the most expensive city on the earth after all.


I did get a bit worried before when the woman who rents out the rooms didnt answer for two weeks but at last she returned my mail with quite a news: the room I was going to rent would go for a man who wants to stay for 6 months, so I'd have to change rooms. She was apologetic and told me the room I would get now wouldn't be free until 9th of March, so I'd have to stay in another apartment in the beginning.


She only had one 'room' left, so I'll have to start my stay in a 64-square meter-apartment with 3 rooms AND a kitchen AND a bathroom!!!! She also promised that Suski and Elina who'll come for a visit are allowed to the room with me and aaaaaaa this is just so great!! Just my luck haha! And now I just cant wait to get there already!!! I wont be charged extra either, though it would normally cost much much more :DD

Here's the room plan from Nekotalo's page, at first I was going to stay in 'Noora', but now that it changed I'll live in 'Kukka'. There are balconies too, it's the second floor ;333

And here's the 'room' she gave to me for the first 9 days!!!! AAAAA so gorgeous ;_;<3 it will be so much fun with Suski and Elina coming there too~ I'll just have to wish there will be no cancellations so I'll also get this apartment B)) all mine ;_;<343434

The house is located in Koenji, which is known for its punk-rock style, bars, restaurants and lively little streets even at nights~ So I wont even have to leave the station to go out or shopping etcetc~! Plus, it's only 15 minutes from Harajyuku and Shibuya so I'll save a lot in public transformation, which is extremely expensive in Japan >,<" The house, however, is 10 minutes from the station so I'm thinking of maybe getting a bike there... But we'll  have to see the actual place at first *ww*


I also sent an email to my Japanese teacher back from my exchange time and she promised to ask around if somebody knew a place that would hire me for the time 'www'


My budget for the trip isnt that big so probably I wont be able to buy that much stuff there D::: but but but we'll see! And if I'll get a job it will be totally different thing then :3 and if i wont, well, I'll just get to be lazy and meet my friends, maybe travel a bit, go to Kansai etc (never been there before!), and study for my entrance exams.


aaaaah I smell adventure already *www* the best thing is that here in Finland it will be crappy and meters of snow, but in Japan it's the best time of the year ;3


OH, and the GazettE just announced their 10-year-anniversary-gig and aösjufösdkfdskösl I JUST HAVE TO GET THE TICKETS ;;;_;;; I've gone to watch them live every time I've been to Japan so it kind of is a tradition already!!!!! And 10 years, seriously, they're starting to get old XDXDDXD


Yesterday we threw a little party at Suski's, tho not many ppl showed up XDD at first we were taking shots and listening to music just the two of us :__D but it was a lot of fun anyway! I decided to dress more girly and put my extensions on (I ordered them for my graduation party but hadn't used them otherwise). So here's a pic!!

Cute and so unlike me :D well well

My job at the school ended on Friday so now I'm all free of responsibilities XD nice to have more time but I still think I'll start making substitutements before Japan, some extra money. Tomorrow I'll have a driving lesson for the second part of the driving license and soon I'll have an official, final license :333 cant wait!! It's Monday tomorrow and I dont have to wake up early ;w;

5. Tsydyttyttydyy~

It's only two days since my last post but feels like eternity..! So much happened and actually I've been doing nothing in particular XD

Well I've been making a huge progress in this whole moving to Japan thing, but no dates or places have been decided - yet. I found this Nekotalo (neko = japanese word for a cat, talo = finnish word for a house) that's located in Tokyo center, near Koenji station. It is a guest house ran by a japanese woman who used to study in Finland and only rents rooms for Finns! I've been mailing with her and she even speaks good Finnish! I've also been considering the dates of the flights and I'm quite sure I would be leaving on February 14th!

But as I said nothing is sure yet, but I have a feeling that I can make an assured post (okay one should never say something is definitive BUT) about this all in some days of time so just wait for that!!

One of the fellow employees of my mother was sick so at days I've been working -to collect some more money for the stay!- and on evenings I've been entertaining myself with shopping (well there the money goes again) and having film nights with my friends! Yesterday at Suski's:

Hahaha omg I just accidentaly uploaded the accidentaly took video XDDD lololol tell me why am I so derpy..!! But the idea was to take a pic of me with Neo (Suski's doggyy)  while we were dressed in exactly the same colors XD (we both even had just little white somewhere!) A cute couple would I say.

Today I met an old friend after a looooong time and it was nice to talk about everything and realize how different everything really is these days. Many of my friends are in a stable relationship, living by themselves, working, studying..... (And here I am, derping on my computer well hellou)

And I just came back to home, we went to watch the movie the girl with the dragon tattoo and it was GOOD. I liked it even more than the Swedish version, tho it was so hilarious how they had made it like they were Swedes omg XD Finnish-Swedish-love here we go again. But yeah, you all should go and watch it!! srsly

I've been buying so much recently, and I can't even feel the end coming any day soon... I thought I would go and check up some more sales and then on Saturday I've planned  to go to a big big second-hand store in Helsinki in Vallilla, never been there before~~ My poor closet, it cant be closed anymore D:: but I swear I'm wearing every single piece of clothe in there XD

Oh, and I got a surprise packet today!! We had received a note that said something had ben too big to fit into our postbox, so this morning I went to get it, I hadnt even been ordering anything so it was a great mystery :D This is what I got then~~

A package from German from the family I lived with the last summer (*ww*) It was a one month exchange program, I went to the school etc in Schwarzwald, the Southern German. I got my forgotten T-shirt back (yey) and then some chocolate, cute little cookies and hand&shoe warmers ;_;<3 and a letter! It was such a nice surprise, the best things come unexpected ;3 deeply moved right now! and isnt the package just so cute ;_;

So I've been just perfect, it's all been only good and wonderful coincidences lately so I'm just fearfully waiting what somebody has planned for me -___-""

I'll make a big style post after the weekend so you get to see all the clothes at the same time and not every post will be filled with them lol

Here you've got a song of the last couple days. It's all over the radio channels and stores and aosöadö it just keeps on playing in my head!!

Happy end of the holidays all, hope you have a good good time~