tisdag 31 mars 2009

Pictures again. and a little stories, not that much has happened.

I dont have that much to tell this time, write questions in the comments and i can answer them.

Today i got my school uniform, its cool. heres a picture, just decide what you think.


Its really baggy, but the guy the measured it said that its supposed to be like that. Everyone thinks its really かっこい (handsome).
So i suppose its all good. Even though it is almost the same colour as a watermelon.

Heres a picture of my computer.


here are the things in it for you geeks out there.

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2,66GHz
4GB RAM DDR3
320GB HD
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Japanese Windows OS

There you go, for today. More will come when more has happened.

söndag 29 mars 2009

I need to catch up.

Yesterday me and okaasan (mother in japanese) went to nagoya to meet lars. Another swedish guy in japan except that he is now here for the second year and is attending a university. We met and talked about stuff, he was really nice.

He hand his host mother was discussing with okaasan what places they would show me. they showed me the biggest book store i have ever been to, it was like 5 floors with only books and such. It was really cool. then we bought smoothies and then we didnt do much more than just walk around talking. it was really nice.

I forgot to show you the map of the place.

This is how big it was. Several crossing streets and it was only shopping.

Yeah, new computer...


the day before yesterday i was at this cool huge shopping place, called osu street. It was the most shops in such an area that i have ever seen. it was awesome.



i bought a computer and a 電子辞書, a japanese electonic dictionary. Heres a picture of it.






It is the best one they had and the store was going to close the next day so i got 40% off the price. im really happy.




the computer i bought is also really good. so thats awesome too.




I also bought a pair of shoes that looks really cool, but my feet hurt after wearing them for a full day so i will have to get used to them. heres a pic of them too if ya want. (even if you dont want here they are anyway).




After i had bought eveything i wanted that day we just walked around and looked at everything there. We went to a really cool temple that were nearby called osu kannon. We went in there and threw money in a well and wished for something. heres a picture of the temple.


After that we went home and were really happy.


fredag 27 mars 2009

Today i went to visit my school.

Today i went to visit the school (Meiden High School) that i will go to, as you can see below the school building gave me a very good impression.

I met the headmaster and the english teacher, they were all very nice. They gave me a guided tour around the school and i got all my school materials. Apparently i ended up in second grade, it is about the same thing as the second grade gymnasium. My class is 2D and my classroom is on the third floor.

They also gave mevery much information about everything, apparently the kendo club members are like worldclass so they said that maybe i could join it if i wanted to but they i would have to train exceptionally hard, so i am considering maybe golf or swimming.

That is about it.

Tomorrow i am going to go shopping for a computer and stuff with my brother, thats gonna be fun. Have a good one mateys, let us all pray that the spring will come to sweden aswell.

oh and by the way, today was about 12 degrees outside and very windy, but thats allright. It is definitely better than snow or whatever you guys have around there.

So you have all been waiting for this moment... i believe




This my friends is the most boring thing that humans have ever thougt of... This is Kumon. a japanese study material... it is all about repeating and repeating the same stuff... 400 pages per book and the same thing on each page.

funny facts about it... i looked up the word in a dictionary and it actually means "Agony or Anguish"... so there...

I actually learn stuff but it is so boring that it might kill me.

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This is my "semi walk-in closet"... not much to say about it other than that it is pretty empty.

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This is my cool desk where i get all the kumon done, almost xD.

I mostly sit there and try to read some books or do kumon.
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There is my awesome bed, it is really comfortable.
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This is the view from my window, its cool.
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This is my extraordinary looking school. it is quite far to get there though but it is still a very cool building.

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This was just a cool house i saw on my way home from school.

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This is just the big street that my street leads to. it is typical japanese, much advertisements and many stores.

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These are my too many school books, i promise ya that these weigh somewhere between 7 and 10 kilograms. thats just too much for school books. and thats only the books, i wonder how heavy it will be with all the notebooks and pens and stuff in my bag. By the way, they are all in japanese (except for the easy english books) so they are only a heavy bunch of papers to me. hehe, will have to change that.

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This is my bag that is made from like very tough fabric (obviously) since the books weigh a ton. its pretty cool though. my sister doesnt like the colour. she said it was watermelon colour.

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This is the Aichi, Meiden (the schools name) badge that i need to put on my uniform. I get my uniform in april by the way.

That was all the pictures i had for you today. maybe more will come, ya cant be sure... naaah, just as soon as i get some more ill put them on here.

tisdag 24 mars 2009

You greedy bastards... hehe fooling ya.

Okay since my last very long post wasnt enough, here comes another one.

I have already told you about everything that happened so now i will tell you about the things that happens around me. or something like that.

The weather in japan is awesome, you dont even have to wear a jacket, only in the evenings. it is like 15 to 18 degrees above but the weather is very unstable, one day its raining and the next one is so clear that you can barely see cause of all the sun. its very lovely.

The sakura, cherry blossoms, havent really started to bloom yet but they will any time now. in tokyo i saw some sakura. but here in nagoya there aint that many of those trees. thats too bad. i think they just invest in those trees to make tokyo beautiful.

the food here is great and the bed is great too.

I am sitting here watching television right now, even though i just understand some words it is quite amusing because their shows are so crazy. There was this show yesterday during dinner where they had made big holes in the sidewalk and then covered them up with some plastic and then made them totally invisible. Then they had this girl that fell on the other side and when the guy went over to help her he fell down this hole... it looked so damn fun, he just dissapeared into the ground.

then the camera zoomed on his face and every single one of the guys who fell down had this very surprised look about them that is almost too good to discribe. it was Legendary.

The family is very nice, i have one broher whos 18 and his name is kento. he is at school right now because his school started last week. he is in a club that makes robots so he comes home around 21.

then there is my sister Lisa, she is 16, right now she is working at a coffe shop, we will go to the same school and it doesnt start until the 7,th of april.

then there is grandma, she is very nice and like this typical japanese tiny old person. she mostly watches television, she is very tired all the time. her name is yoshie.

then there is dad, he is working at toyota as a group manager, dont really know what that kind of manager does but anyway, he is practicing japanese drums after work so he is also home pretty late.

and last there is mom, she is very helpful with everything and she is always smiling.

apparently they had another excange student 2 years ago from america.

also, kento was a year in america last year so he can speak pretty good english.

i hope that was enough to answer some questions, i will wait and save up some real stories to tell next time i writein about a week. Hope all is well, sayonara.. :D

måndag 23 mars 2009

Hmmm...

There will be no pictures yet though since i dont have a camera.

Hello everyone. Long time no writing. Too much to do.

Hey everyone i am writing in english cause this keyboard doesnt have the three letters that messes everything up.

Where to begin, there has happened so much stuff...

Ill start with the flight. It was good, pretty boring and i didnt get that much sleeping done. There are several explanations for that, babies crying, sunny weather and movies playing. it was okay though. i am satisfied. Nothing that interesting happened.

The plane landed at 9, ten minutes delayed, no biggie though. It was nice to finally stretch my legs. Everything went smooth at the airport and i met some other guys from yfu. I forgot to tell the right "Returnee", volounteers that helped u s during the orientation camp, that i had arrived so we were all waiting for me for a while, that was pretty funny.

The yfu atudents i met were only germans, i hate german it just sounds so ugly...
there were 2 others that werent germans they were australians, i finally had someone to talk to.
their names were Beck and Skye. I had met them on facebook one week earlier.

There was a 2 hour bus drive to the "Olympic Center" where we were supposed stay for a week.

The camp started out not so good. like 30 germans who only spoke german and then us 3 english speaking people. There was a guidance where they told us about everything we needed to know to check in and to eat dinner. I arrived at the camp at 12 in the morning. it felt pretty weird though that i was so goddamn tired even though it was morning, and then we were supposed to be up until like 22 because everyone had different arrival time.

Finally some other nationalities arrived and we had pretty fun just sitting around talking or buying stuff at the cool vending machines. They had hot coffe in a can. Thats pretty awesome.

We ate some dinner, i dont remember what though. i just remember that we had rice with every meal so.. rice and something. Every meal we could choose between 5 different dishes to eat. it was very good food.

at 21,30 our last roomie, colin, finally arrived and we could go to sleep, just to wake up at like 6,30 the following morning.

My roommates were. Nils from sweden, Colin from america and Jon from holland. we had very much fun. I just wish the camp would have lasted longer... anyway up early in the morning for more guidance and stuff...

I dont remember the exact orde of the awesome events that happened. so ill just tell you everything like a "mix".

We had our first japanese bath, it was quite an experience, we had to shower first and then go down in a much too hot pool in the middle. but it was really great. it felt really refreshing.

The vending machines had a variety of cool stuff... it had Kit Kat in a jar, coke in a aluminum bottle, Fries, Coffe in a can, Tea in a can, tea in a bottle, hot dogs... almost anything that you can eat or drink. it was pretty cheap too.

The convenient store was pretty awesome too, it had much stuff, cool candy sorts, souvernirs, drinks, the famous face masks. Jon and Colin bought a pack each and then Jon walked around with a facemask and sunnglasses. it looked pretty cool.

We had this Adventure Game thing where we walked around to different places and played games. There was one where we were supposed to fold a paper into a sumo wrestler and then have a wrestling match, there was one where we got to look at a picture and then we were supposed to explain what it was in japanese. i got a picture of a hurricane.

Then there was a room where we were supposed to make a word out of alot of characters. The next one was pretty fun, we had to pick stuff up with chopsticks within one minute There was small beans 5 points, gummibears 2 points, wrinkled paper 1 point, i only tried to get beans, i got 90 points.

There was also in the same room a game where we were supposed to write a word and then pass it to the next guy who wrote the same word, we all had 10 seconds each so it was pretty hard.

One of the games were rock, paper, scissors (ジャン献本 (jan ken pon) i think it is in japanese) It was fun too.

One of my norwegian friends Hien, I call him けいちゃん (keichan) since a little internal joke thing at the swedish orientation camp, Anyway he went around giving everyone nicknames, mine was guschan, pronounced gooschan with an american accent.

On the last whole day we had this farewell party where every different nationality had to show something that was typical for that country. We swedes danced around a midsummer pole. most of the people just tried to get others to say something in another language. the japanese returnees finished it off with a japanese fashion show. it was all great.

after that we had free time, free time we had like once every day like 4 hours in a row where we did everything fun. during the last freetime we took a long bath and then we just talked in our room, we were many in that small room, to quote colin, it was "awkward cozy" he was a fun american.

The following morning we all had to wake up early, at like 6, and clean the room and get ready to meet the host family. we all said our goodbyes and then we were off in groups, everyone who was taking the plane to their destination were in one group, the ones who were going to live in tokyo were in one group and the ones who was taking the train was i one group, that was me.
we took the bus to tokyo station and then we took the shinkansen to our final destination. mine was nagoya station.

everyone got really Really REALLY nervous when the train stopped, including me, but it all just went away when we saw the host families. allhough i had thing thing to say prepared i just didnt remember at the time. we walked to the car and then we headed home, they were really nice.

Later that same night they took me to a concert with japanese drums, it was really cool, i worked really hard to stay awake because i didnt want to miss anything, after that we went to one of those cool sushi places. where the sushi passes by the table. There was also this screen where you could order anything and then a small shinkansen came to deliver it to you. it was cool.

After that i went home and slept almost the second i touched the bed.

The day after that i joined the scouts, the dad is a scout leader, on a day trip. The first stop was a very cool place. You payed a small amount of yen and then you entered this green house with thousands of strawberry plants and then you could eat as much as you could get. The strawberries didnt grow in ordinary soil, they grew in water. They tasted really good, i think i ate about 60 of them. The guy who ate the most ate about 130, by the way i have said it alot at the camp and i say it again: Japanese people eat too much.

the next thing we did was to walk really far and then we had lunch. after the lunch we went to a japanese vinegar museum, it was teally cool.

after that we went home, it was starting to get pretty late.

we had dinner and then i took a bath and then i got to bed, nothing interesting.

monday we went out to buy me a school uniform, we went to this big mall that had several floors and i tried some stuff and it all looked good. I get my uniform the first of april, since they will sew it for me.

And today, the day i am writing this nothing special has happened, I am watching the baseball world championship finals right now it is japan against korea. Pretty interesting.

That pretty much sums it all up. I hope you are all having a good time wherever you are and ill try to write again soon.

söndag 15 mars 2009

Japan... Nihon

Jahapp... hemma från lägret nu. Det var folk från alla möjliga ställen i Sverige och Norge.
Nu pratar man då nån blanding av japanska, norska, norrlänska, svenska. Låter sjukt.

Åker imorrn ju, håller på att packa nu. Det ska bli jätteroligt.

Kommer landa i tokyo och sedan vara en vecka på läger där med. Alla olika sorters nationaliteter. ska bli jätteroligt det med.

Japan... niho

onsdag 11 mars 2009

Det blir lite stökigt när man ska packa ihop de bästa kläderna... Hehe!

OJOJOJOJ!

Nu börjar det verkligen dra ihop sig, ska ju iväg på pre-departure läger nu innan jag åker iväg. Det ska bli jätteroligt att få träffa alla andra som ska åka och de som ska vara här.

Packningen går väl sådär, allt är en enda stor röra :P
Jag måste ta tag i det här när jag kommer hem från lägret.
Jag tror att jag har koll på vad jag ska ha med mig men jag har en tendens att glömma saker. det skulle ju bli väldigt jobbigt i det här läget.

Idag träffade jag några kompisar och "tog farväl" *snyft*, nä men jag kommer ju tillbaks. Året kommer nog gå snabbt.

Det känns ju lite jobbigt att man ska gå japansk skola, Man kommer ju inte förstå någonting i början. Det släpper väl sen så småningom.

Vet inte om jag kommer kunna skriva på ett tag nu på grund av att jag ska flyga. Sedan måste jag ju införskaffa en dator men sen kommer jag skriva igen.