First post in Norway. I 've been sick since the very day I came home from the airport, coughing and fever in five days. >.< so I haven't been able to be out of the house more than two times,  witch sucks since I want to see people and people want to see me. But it's getting sliightly better. Marte and Lisa is coming over tonight, and tomorrow it's cafè with the k-d gals, funfun. ^o^

Sure is strange being back, I expected it to be just like normal, but it feels more like I've been away for forever, two years or more and then nothing changed after all.

First thing I did the first day at home was to play the piano 5 in the morning. I've missed it so much! almost cried! xD

The first days  my head was completely out of sorts (fever added also)  I didn't manage to get out of the jetlag until today. oO the first days I whent to bed a 7'o clock and woke up 3 in the morning. >.< I started to miss a lot of things in japan, especially my apartment and kitchen, even missed the hard bed, (my old one felt way to soft, like sleeping on a marshmallow xD) Also missed not seeing and hearing japanese everywhere. Most of all I missed the fine weather. 14 minus, way cold!

I went to the doctor yesterday and I finnaly got an appointment for x-ray to my foot, which the past years have been getting more and more out of shape, now there's this knuckle that is painfully pointing out from the side. oO Went to my usual foot treatment on monday, and now I and Kazuyo, the lady who treat my foot, could have a conversation in japanese! very much fun, told her all about Josai and Togane and the things we had done. ^o^ 

Classes starts on monday and history begins on friday, so I have two days on getting healty and start studying again, I think it will be good to get som structure again, with swimming and studying. On fridays we don't have any classes, so it will be my work day and ever second, it will be my folio day, hope I'll manage to make the most of it and start sewing again.

Not much else to blog about as I've been lying in bed the past days, fever's gone now at least,  just have to get better until history class begins! 

I feel much more positive now than I have in a very long time. and I'm glad, it's a good way to start a new year feeling positive. :)

Back from a weekend in Tokyo! Was a fun trip, didn't have mutch in the agenda, but a trip to Odaiba, Izakaya and a Princess Cafè was in place.
Kine and I left friday and booked ourself in at Sakura Hostel Asakusa, a pretty decent hostel. Kine whent to Akihabara to get a new camera lense, and I headed towards Nippori again. This time I didn't find so many fabrics that I wanted, the few that I saw last time that I was going to come back for wasn't there anymore, but ended up with a few things after all. Later Kine met up with Wictoria and here friend Li, but I was feeling too tired to go out drinking so I stayed at the hostel. But then I met this nice japanese guy whom I talked to for a while. I haven't really had a long conversation with a japanese person yet, atleast not withouth the person knowing any english and not having everybody else around to do the talking.  So i finally felt that I got use for my japanese. (xP) We talked for about and hour and half and he was overly excided about everything I said. He thought was absolutely amusing just having a iPod from norway  xD

( Picture galore! )

Yesterday was a long and busy day with the presentation and the La'cryma Christi concert.
It was quite stressfull the whole day, but it ended really well. I've been stressing about both these events for weeks and it finnaly ended yesterday. oO the presentation was awful but whent as good as possible, at least the all the teachers told us we did well so we just have to believe that. :p
Thought we hadn't practised infront of an audience with the power point until two hours before the final. Where I after two sentences end up running hysterically out of the room crying. xD but i must say i HATE public speeches you might as well drag me through town by my hair. I feel much more relaxed after this is over, I haven't slept well for two weeks, hopefully that'll be much better now. oO 
The final presentation did go pretty well, according to the others I didn't stumble at all and the pronunciation was clear. Didn't look up from the sheets but NO of the other did it either so I don't care. ^^;
Also luckily since we was the very first, almost no audience had showed up. But right after we finnished about 90 people stumbeled in.
It was a little bothersome too, almost all the presentations was arrupted by the people walking in and out. And also they had split up the norwegians, so we HAD to listen to all, but the chinese they just walked in right under one group's speech and then they left when they where done, I just can't understand why the teachers let people into the room while someone whas speaking. :O very distracting.

Thought after four and an half hour of presentation with just a ten minute break my head was pretty fired. And I was stressing about getting to the concert in time since the presentation was a little late and we missed the train, I even almost didn't want to go. But Cat and I  got on our way and thought we were still sitting on the train when the concert was supposed to start we made it just in time! We arrived at the excact moment as the band entered the stage.

Thought I was a extremely tired after a 7 hour schoolday filled with tension and nervousity, the whole even turned out great! The concert was really awesome! La'cryma is definitely one those bands who are a lot better live than in studio, so I loved alot of new songs and all and had a good time. :D And they are all so goofy and cute on stage doing all their tricks and thinking they look so cool if they just wave that sword around alittle. xP Levin was throwing drumsticks all over the place and Koji is just adorable smiling so heartily to the fans. He's my absolute favorite. ^o^ watching Taka being diva is also fun. xD  I could write more about this but it would probably not be so intresting to most of you, so let's just end it with that it was absolutely awesome. ^o^ wish I had a video to show or something, but nothings been released yet, there is a live dvd coming out in march from the festival, I would love to have it, but I don't have a japanese adress in march, so it probably won't work, and you have to reserve it now and such, but when i try to reserve it it just says "chart is empty" but it's not empty, buuh. :pIt's sad that it's the last concert, but it's a miracle that i managed to go on a reunion concert with my favorite band that have been disbanded for years. oO I'm happy that Koji is playing in ALvino, another bad I like a lot, whant to see them too! but they won't do another live until spring. Maybe next time! ^o^
So tomorrow theres a litterature test, monday there's a rengo test, and on wednesday theres our final exam, inbetween these day's theres the daily tests and homework. I don't understand how they think we are going to make good grades with under two days to read to the exam.

I'm just so happy today when so well! :D

Seemed to hav had som kind of crash yesterday. I've been feeling extremely tired the couple of these days and not really wanting any food, so in three days in only ate four times. Yesterday I woke up and I almost could not get out of bed, so I ended up just staying in bed the whole day, sleeping on and off. still managed to get the worst headache and I nausea, almost fainted while trying to make something to eat, I don't know what whent on. oO today I felt better, but stayed home from the first day of school. The day before all this, Wictoria, Ane, Linn and I whent to Ghibli studio and then we hung around shinjuku, on the way home a was exhausted, feeling like all the bones in my entire body was out of order. >.< maybe I have been overexerting myself with the whole tokyo trip and trips back and forth to tokyo. >.< hope it dosen't happen again.

Today it's just 20 days until we leave Togane, and just 8 days of school left! can't believe it. It will be sad to leave japan, but it will be great to leave Togane and Josai. I kinda fell that I'm country confused. I don't really know where I should go, I was pretty sick of norway when I left, but I don't feel that I manage japanese or living here in japan well enough to come back and stay. I really miss norway right now, and want to go back right away, but I din't feel too good last time I was home, maybe things have changed? doubt it, I figure it'll be great for a while and then dead boring, especially since everybody is so busy, myself included, thought I always seem to find time to hang with my friends, no matter how busy I am. >.< But where would I go? england? france? nepal? oO I have under a year to decide where to go next. It will be a hard and final desicion, I have to start my real education now, not many years of loan left. >.< 

There's going to be tons of things I'll miss when I go home. Like how quiet it is on the trains and the queue systems, how nobody is pushing to get into the train, the service in the stores, though it could be a bit much at times. I'll miss all the fun, adorable, colourful cheap things in the shops, but I'll not miss going shopping seeing all the cool clothes that's way too small . oO I'm looking forward to be able eat healthy food, not wash my hair in clorine water, going to a hairdresser, actually understanding everything people say, not having to eat in my bed and sleep on my table.
But I am going to miss talking in japanese, though I just want to drop everything when I hear other gajins talk perfectly in japanese, realising how little I have come these two years. sure I can have a basic conversation, watch movies and read to a certain content, but I just get jealous when people are joking and discussing in japanse, it's so difficoult coming up with things in conversations, it's not like writing at all. >.<;;

It will certainly be weird going back, mostly because then I soon can start something new. It dosen't feel like it's a new year since nothing is finnished yet. I think I'll have to make my resolutions when I come home. oO
All in all I just can't wait to get back to my piano and sewing machine. <3

I still haven't even decided what language I'll take in the autumn. I absolutely don't know, I almost just want to quit after japanse,and just take a year off and apply for art schools, but I'll will go mental without doing something, and I don't think working at the factory or somewhere else will be any better of just learning another languge. It would have been fun if I could have chosen any of the languages I'd want to learn, but you have to already know the basic, so I can't learn either french or spanish. Does anyone have experince with other (than japanese) languages at UiO?

( Language ranting )

Back from Tokyo where Ive spent the last days with Marte and Lisa. It was so much fun seeing them again, and in japan, I never thought I'd actually manage to drag them all the way to japan, but here they where!
Stayed in Anne Hostel, which I don't recomend to anyone. The rooms was awfully cold, it seemd to come cold air a window or door, it was freezing. and also very noisy as the door to our room who led straight out to the bathroom had a 10 cm long opening under and people was of course talking and blowdrying their hair until 4 in the morning. oO very noisy. Other than that everything whent exceedingly well! 
As their guide I wanted to show them all kinds of sides of Tokyo. We didn't have much time only 5 days, and they didn't know much about japan, but we managed to visit about all the city parts except Odaiba. If we had better time I would have traveled somewhere else other than Tokyo. but they like japan so much tha they definitely want to come to Kyoto with me! :D

New years eve was surprisingly amusing, never been found of new years eve, I think this was one of the better ones. We hung with a canadian girl from our hostel at Zojoji, the temple right next to Tokyo Tower! it was amazing celebrating there, you all have to see the countdown video under the cut! It was really beautiful.

Yesterday I saw avatar! It was great. can't wait to se it again on dvd! was a little dissapointed about the 3D thought, it was very blurry so couldn't get the feel of the details, somethings it was impossible to see what was going on at all. xD also we where sitting on the second row, might have made it wors, but we sat in the middle while watching Up in 3D the day before that, and it still had some of the same problems. >.<
Up was amazing btw, Pixar has the best parodies. xD


I have a lot of pictures and videos from the vacation! perhaps a little to much, but i think  they are worth looking at! ^o^

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Happy new years everyone! ♥