28. Visitors and travelling (+fucking many pictures)

Hullo, can't believe it's November already!!

Once again, I've been buuuusy (well most of the time, at least XD). I had Kukka visiting me for two whole weeks, so the time I wasn't in school I had better things to do than being on computer :D even once it's this way heha. Most of the days we just sat in my flat doing nothing much (I got her hooked in Supernatural so we watched like two seasons of that), ate a looooooot, and I had rehearsals basically every day last week, so the nights went for those.

This week, however, we're having an 'Enrichment Week' at Uni, which means no lectures yeyy. So I do actually have something to blog about~ On Saturday we made this school trip to Oxford, a simple one-day bus trip for our Understanding Britain course. Then on Monday we went to London, did some shopping and visited AQUARIUM *ww* This was first time for me, like ever ever ever, in a proper aquarium (strange i never visited one in jpn o.o"), so i reaaally was looking forward to it!!

And then the next day, yesterday it is, we went to Camden Town for some more shopping, and at night to the London Dungeons! So something halloweenish~

Tho we went shopping in the central london, it actually became clear the best place to shop was..... tyndyndyyyyyy.... in kingston, right next to the uni :_D it was much less ppl there and no such a rush that we had in london. The shops were all in the same area and we have quite a big selection of different stores there, so from this day on i might prefer buying my stuff there..!! If you visit london it definitely is worth checking.

Then, after having done some morning shopping this morning, we headed back home and started packing for this night's flight. Meaning, I'm BACK IN FINLAND NOW! 

It feels just amazing to be back. It's strange, i've never been one of those who become homesick or prefer home country to living abroad, but this time i'm just really glad to be back for these few days. Or maybe living abroad makes me appreciate things here more, dunno. I'll be back on Sunday already, so now I just make the best of these 3,5 days i'll have here! Most of my hours are already booked, so i'll get to meet many friends and do a lot of things :3 more about that later.

Now, for it's late already, i'll just post here some random photos from last weeks with some words written under them. Hope you guys like, here we gooo!

Souvenirs from finland ;;<3

A breakfast at kingston mmm

going ooout

Our bad ass hotel on the first weekend, the five star place next to St. Paul's church B)

Oh yeah.

I wish i could live like this every day....

Going out for a drink with Elina&Mikko, who were visiting london at the same time~

Rndm idyllic midnight in london pic

omnomnom this was great<3 tho it was raining so much we had to walk in wet shoes even the next day

hahaha the lunch of the following day :_D see the contrast? in candem you can eat various foods like chinese, mexican, jpnese, pizza etc nearly free, lets say 3 pounds for meal.

One just have to love these!!

Candem.

More omnoms.

Mmmmmm. some of our own cookings.

Oxfordddd (god it's a horrible pic, i just added it without looking probably so now here you are..)

Kukka being a tourist

The city was soooo beautiful, i'd go and live there any day. Seriously. 

The wind was fucking cold tho >,< we, transforming into grannies in order to survive.

Our not-so-great guide.

Aa i fell in love with this one!

It was this scenery everywhere in the city. amazing.

The university we visited. It seems to be the home for the students too o.o" just.. wow.

They said the building had influenced harry potter movies, and yeah, it was like the same..!

Felt like being in the movie!!!

The Great Hall.

Great Tourists.

Aaah i wanna study there ;; see they had a wedding!

One bad ass clock.

Kit Kat milkshake ;;<3

Back in London.

Here something British for u.

Mmmmmmm.

Disney store at oxford street!!

Kukka bought me a cool simba cup :DD cant open it before christmas tho

A RAY!!! aaah i just love these creatures!! The highlight of the day without a doubt! It just kept coming to me~

Outside the aquariummm.

omnom breakfast at home.

The dungeons. The place was SO COOL! not that scary, nothing like the scaring-the-crap-out-of-you-hospital-thing in fujikyu, but it was just a great deal of fun! The actors, the music and the props, everything was great! Highly recommend.

Being a tourist.

A cool building for suski, thought you'd like it!

Omnomnom crepe at Candem.

WE FOUND SOME NIKUMAN IN CANDEM ;; I WAS LIKE SADJHLSDJLKSJ THEY SELL NIKUMAN AAA. but it wasnt tasty at all D:: still, a warm memory for that and a small moment of appreciation to nikumans.

Candem. So far, it's the coolest place i've been to in london.

Picadilly tourist pic.

Airport foooood tonight.

Yeah, that's it then. The last one's my Finnish room the way it was when i entered. It's kinda strange to be here again o.o" strange but great.

I'll be back once i've returned to london and tell how this turned out to be!! Oh, and have a great halloween u all!

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.