Mateja

Stolen from: v_veronika

Hi, my name is: Mateja

When I’m nervous I: start shaking / start laughing / say something stupid

Last night I: stayed up till 3am listening to music


PART 1: BABY YOU

Were you a planned baby?
I don't think so.

Were you the first?
Nope, second.


PART 2: YOUR PERSONALITY

Do you have low self esteem?
No.

Are you happy right now?
No...


PART 3: APPEARANCE

Are you comfortable with the way you look?
Ya. (Except for my butt lol)

Describe your hair:
Long, straight, brown.


PART 4: RANDOM

Ever been kicked out of a bar?
No.


PART 5: THE OUTDOORS

Do you prefer indoors or outdoors?
Indoors.

How’s the weather?
Windy.

Do you like walking in the rain?
Sometimes, depends.

Do you like thunderstorms?
I love thunderstorms. ^^


PART 6: FOOD

Are you a vegetarian?
No.

Anything you absolutely could eat forever?
Pizza, macaroni, golaz, indian curry, kare- raisu.

What is your favorite dessert?
Fruit cake.


PART 7: RELATIONSHIPS AND LOVE

Do you want to get married?
Sure.

Been married before?
No.

Are you truly in love?
Ya.


PART 8: RANDOM QUESTIONS

Where is your cell phone?
Next to my comp.

Cheesecake?
Sure.

Your dream last night?
I don't remember anymore. I did in the morning, but I forgot, it was stupid anyway.

Your favorite drink?
Fruit juice.

Where did you grow up?
In Ljubljana.

Tattoos?
No.

Ketchup?
No thanks.

Your computer?
Really slow lately :(

Your life? What are you thinking about right now?
I am thinking I need to graduate as soon as possible and go back to Japan, then I can really start living again.

Favorite color(s)?
Pink.

When is the last time you laughed?
Just a few minutes ago, when I was watching some old karaoke movies of me and _meikyuu_

Last received call?
My sister.


Part 9: LIFE

What friend knows the most about you?
Jeff.

Who do you blame for your mood today?
I don't blame anyone.

What should we do with stupid people?
I don't know.

What is making you sad right now?
Missing someone...

What was the first thing you did this morning?
I sent a text message to my sister.

Last person you went out to dinner with?
Everyone from work.

Do you drink lots of water?
Not as much as I should.

How do you vent your anger/sadness?
Crying.

What theme does your room have?
Emm....

Are you a mama’s child or a daddy’s child?
Both?

The last website you visited?
www.facebook.com

Who was the last person you took a picture with?
M and S from work at the dinner.

Last person you went to the movies with?
My sister and my brother-in-law.

What did you do/will you do for your birthday this year?
I am actually having a party! :D

Is anything alive in your room?
Just me.

Today, would you rather go back a week or go forward a week?
Ah, I'd just leave it like this.

What are you looking forward to right now?
My birthday party ^^

Part 10: IF YOU HAD TO

If you HAD to dye your hair a color what color would it be?
I would love to see how I look like with blond hair, but somehow I don't think that's a good idea. I guess I would just make it a bit lighter then, but still brown.

If you HAD to get a piercing (not ears) what would you get?
I wouldn't. I wouldn't even get my ears pierced if I had that choise again.

As you aready know, I have my brithday next week. And as I've already mentioned, you're all invited to come over and celebrate with me. :) Ya, I guess it's like a small party. Nothing big, I just thought we could maybe play some pictionary and do some eye-toy or even karaoke if you're up for it. And drink and eat of course! Anyway, I'll be happy if you come and... you don't have to bring anything, just let me know what you'd like to drink, so I know what to buy. ^^

Tagged by: kalamitykat

1. How has LJ changed your life?
It hasn't really. I guess I don't spend that much time on it.

2. What do you do before bedtime?
Take a shower, brush my teeth etc, check my email / chat online, think about what I have to do the next day etc...

3. What are you going to have for dinner tonight?
Nothing, it's too late to eat already.

4. What is the city of your dreams and why?
Tsukuba. The city where I spent the best year of my life!

5. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
Can I say somewhat in between? I guess more introvert if I had to choose...

6. What do you do in your free time?
I spend way too much time on my computer, I watch japanese drama, go to the movies, go out for a walk, meet friends, go shopping...

7. Do you trust easily?
Ya, I guess I do.

8. What personal belonging do you have with you everywhere you go?
Well, I never go out without my cellphone, keys, tissues, lip balm and chewing gums.

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
Too many things. This really isn't a good time for me... :(

10. What is your best quality?
Hmm... I don't know... it's hard to just choose one...

11. Is being tagged fun?
Ya, sure.

12. How do you see yourself?
These days very depressing. Otherwise I think I'm fun, but a bit childish and stubborn sometimes... Also a bit too emotional maybe.

13. Who are currently the most important people to you?
My mom and dad. And the person I'm in love with.

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Special. I wish I knew her better.

15. Would you rather be single & rich or married but poor?
Definitely married and poor! If that means happily married of course. If I'm miserable I'd rather be rich.

16. How many children do you want to have, if any?
One or two.

17. What's better to give or to receive?
Both give a great feeling.

18. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?
I can't imagine falling in love with two people at the same time... is that even possible?!

19. Would you have 100% safe sex with a stranger for $10,000,000?
No thanks. I would never sell myself. Money is not THAT important.

20. What were your parents going to name you if you'd been born the opposite gender?
I've no idea, they never told me. But I know it wouldn't be Matej.

I tag: _meikyuu_

I don't know who made this list, but this list sucks! It makes it look like I haven't read any books at all! Which is so not true! I've read A LOT of books, they're just not on the list. With 15 books I have to read for spanish each year I hardly have time to read anything esle, and of course these books are not on the list... as well as so many other books they forced us to read in school. And where is Don Quijote for example? Shouldn't that be on the big read as well? Or where is Stephen King for example?! As I said... this list sucks.
Well at least I know what 80% of these books are about!


The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1.YOUR ROCK STAR NAME:(first pet, current car)
Koki Hyundai
(Well it's not really MY car and it wasn't really MY pet, but ok....)

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe)
Vanilla Boots

3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME/ Detective Name: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Pink Panda

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born in)
Ljubljana?!
(Since I don't have a middle name, I guess it would be just Ljubljana, but that is STUPID)

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 of your first name)
Krama
(LOL!!!)

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (The 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
Black Juice
(Ya, you can see how powerfull I would be....)

7. not doing, doesn't make sense (Ok, I agree ;))

8. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Lollypop
(I just realized I don't really have a favorite perfume :S I suck....)

10. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Fabjan Florence

11. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Winter Rose (Lets say winter, but I don't really have a favorite season either... -_-)

12. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now)
Raspberry Pajamas

13. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Chocolate-cream cherry

14. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (father & mother's middle name)
No one in my family has a middle name! :(

15. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Majc

16. ROCK STAR NAME: (current/previous pets name, current street name)
Tilly Brilejeva

17. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on)
Koki Brilejeva
(Ya, sounds very sexy....not!)

The biggest news: ANIA IS COMING TO SLOVENIA!!! Yay!!! I AM SOOOO EXCITED!!! We spent the whole year together in Japan and I haven't seen her since the end of august! So you can imagine this is the only thing on my mind lately! I spent two whole days just cleaning my room (even tho my doctor told me to rest for a month!) and I bought a new couch! My room looks so much better now! Tilly loves the new couch too btw ;) And I bought the biggest pack of tea I could find lol This is going to be so fun!!! But why only 5 days??!!!! :'(

The reason my doctor told me to rest for a month (I am not even allowed to study :S) is my thyroid. It is working more than it should or something like that. :S I found out last week when my legs were swollen from my ankles up to my knees. It looked terrible!!! So I went to see my doctor (of course I had to wait like 3hours >.<) and I got two different kind of pills I should take twice a day. They seem to be working 'cause I've been feeling much better the past few days. And my elephant legs are gone too! ^^

I have been spending too much money again... First the couch, then the blankets, some make-up, t-shirts... >.< AND I am going to pay 50€ to see Lord of the Dance in May. I love it! It is so great. But if it was just fore me I wouldn't pay so much to see it. It is more for my mom. She loves it too and I am sure she'd love to see it, so I got this idea that me and my sister could take her and each of us paied for half of her ticket. My mom knows nothing of it yet ^^

I also passed my literature exam!!! Yay!!! :D I was SOOO nervous! But I passes ^^ 5 more exams to go! Ganbarimasu!

Hmm what else is new? Did I mention Ania is coming to visit me??? Lol I just found this REALLY nice song on my playlist. I thought it was so weird 'cause I've had it on my pc for almost a year and I haven't heared it till now! It is so nice and the lyrics are beautiful!

あなたがいるから鼓動を刻み　あなたがいるから紅く染まるよ
あなたがいるから僕は生きられる　あなたがいなけりゃ僕は...死んでるよ

Yay! Sushi finally after more than 6 months! So yummy! But like 10x more expensive than in Japan... >.< But oh well, it was worth it! Ne? sunny0681? :) v_veronika has no idea what she missed :P Red wine jelly lol or something like that :D And MISO!!! I love Miso!!! Ok, now I'm hungry again...

So my sister and her husband are traveling again. They just got back from Paris!! And now London... well, somebody obviously has too much money :P At least I'm getting my Bop-it (but I have to pay for it of course... as if I didn't owe her enough money already...).

I'm at work. Did I mention how great it is that my boss went to Brasil for a whole month?! :D That means I can watch movies for 8 hours and get paid for it ;) But... my movie choice wasn't that good today. A friend of mine told me to watch The Lake House so I did. But... it's stupid! Seriously... it's totally IMPOSSIBLE... like when that tree just magically appears in front of her?! Wtf?! Or like... they send eachother like what...5 notes? And suddenly they're ALL in love! They don't know eachother, they don't know how the other looks like and yet they come out with shit like "i wanna take care of you" or what was it... totally ridiculous. I like romantic movies, but this one was just.... stupid :S

So ya, not a good movie tonight, but at least I got free dinner :D This guy came in the hostel and asked me to lend him a bike for 10mins so I did and I didn't charge him anything. He asked me if I was hungry and I told him I'm always hungry (which is true lately) and he said he would bring me something. I said ok but thought "ya right". In fact I was kind of scared he wouln't bring back the bike either. But hey, what do you know, there are sill some nice people in the world... he brought back the bike and brought me kebab :D Yummy! But now I'm sooo thirsty... ya I know... never satisfied ;)

Nothing else is really going on in the hostel. We just got this weird drunk guy who came downstairs and got all pissed, asking me why we didn't wake him up. I was like: "emm... i was told to wake you up at 9:30... it's 2am now?" And he was like "oh..." and went back to sleep... weirdo! :P

... I actually don't feel too good right now... If the next movie is as depressing as the last one... then I'll just... I don't know... But anyway, I better put something on fast, 'cause if I continue to sit here thinking about... stuff... I'll just.... ok, let's see what else I have here? Charlie and the chocolate factory? ^^ Love it... but not really in the right mood... Phantom of the Opera... same thing... Anna and the king? Why do I have a feeling this will be depressing too?  The departed? Nah, that sounds even more depressing... I think I'll give Anna and the king a try.

Again stolen from v_veronika

Movie quotes meme
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.



Ok, GUESS GUESS!!! ^^ And NO cheating! :P

Stolen from v_veronika


Ok and what have we learned from this? -> I have way too many Shirelles songs on my pc LOL

I really need to party more often! But two parties in one month is a big progress already. The halloween party wasn't bad... halloween?! I mean Pust! I went to Bacchus with Lea and it was quite fun. I was dressed up as a mouse and she was... what was she again? Oh ya, black widow or something. She wanted us both to go dressed in our yukata(s), but I was afraid I'd get it dirty. And I was right! By the end of the night I had champagne, red-bull and vodka all over my clothes. :S So ya, thank god I left my yukata at home. But it was fun. I really needed to relax a bit. The music was ok and we got free drinks from these two dogs lol

The "party" in Celje with kalamitykat and sunny0681 was cool. I kinda liked the place, even tho the music wasn't really by my choice. But ok... And I must say, I didn't see a single cute guy the whole night. :S There was only one guy that I intentionally looked at more than 5 times and I think it was only because he reminded me of K. Ya, I know... -_-
Still somehow I felt ridiculously self-conscious the whole night and I have no idea why. But I'm sure anyone could tell by the way I was dancing. I was just repeating one step over and over again... Seriously I don't know what was wrong with me. I know I'm usually quite shy, but I manage to relax and have a good time dancing on parties... So... nope, no clue what was going on in my head that night.

I also got a chance to meet sunny0681's bf. And ex-bf ;) Well, meet, I better say see. Cause I didn't talk to either of them. I don't remembered how they looked like either, actually the only thing I remember was sunny0681's bf stepping on my foot :S kalamitykat was asking me what I think about him and I had no idea what to say. Seriously, I had no special opinion or whatever, the only thing that came to my mind was that he looked a bit old... and I didn't wanna say that :P Well I'm sure he was good looking, but as I said, I don't know what was wrong with me that night...

It's been more than a year since my last post... actually it had been exactly one year when Stash reminded me of LJ. I can't believe I completely forgot about it... I guess I could start writing again. And read my friends' journals too. Sorry guys, I completely abandoned this place...

As you all know already... I came back home in September, well, in the end of August to be exact. And it was exactly as I thought it would be - it sucked! Big time! Actually...it still does. I was completely depressed and cried pretty much every night... I'm not sure if it was 'cause of Japan or 'cause of... well... I guess it was everything. But I survived... or I'm surviving. (I'm really glad my parents understand me...)

Right now I'm translating some japanese fairy tails. It's quite interesting and if I get paid for it... why not? I still work at the hostel. The hostel sucks, but the job is pretty easy and as long my stupid boss leaves me alone I have nothing to complain about.

Well.. I would love to write a whole novel about how life sucks and all... but I don't want my first post after a year to be all depressing... Omg... I'm seriously emo, aren't I? :|

After probably the worst week of my life I'm finally starting to feel a little bit better. A little bit! I'm trying to find little things that would distract me and keep me in a good mood... so this week I've been really looking forward to buying myself a new computer! I was supposed to go to Tokyo today with A, A, J and E, but J said she's not feeling well and E has to work...

This was supposed to be such a nice day. I would wake up in the sunny morning, go to Tokyo, have a nice time with my friends, buy a new computer and then play a DH game till morning... but... :(

(btw: this is a public post, so please don't mention what I wrote in my last post in any of your comments! Thanks :P)

I was invited to go to Thailand in march and now I can't decide if I should go or not. :S I mean of course I want to go! It's a new country I've never been to and I've heard only good stuff about if from people that had been there. And besides, who knows when (if ever) I'll get another opportunity to go there.

I guess it would be kind of expensive, but I can afford it. Of course then I wouldn't be able to buy a new computer, but do I really need one? I mean this one that I'm using right now isn't bad at all.

But still I don't know. Somehow I'm not sure if he really wants me to go. I mean now that he's found two friends to go there too... I donno, I'm just a bit scared I guess. The thing is if I go someplace on vacations or whatever and I don't feel good (like don't feel welcome or I feel like I'm in the way or I feel alone or whatever), then I get really homesick. :S Ok in this case it wouldn't be homesick as in "I wanna go back to Slovenia", but "I want to be back in my room in Tsukuba", but it's still the same.

Another thing is, I don't speak the language! That's kind of scary, especially 'cause others plan to travel for almost 3 weeks and go all the way to Singapore, while I would only be in Thailand for a week. That means I'd have to get back to the airport by myself, from wherever we might be the last day of my trip.

So I donno.... arrrrrgh! Why am I so bad at making decisions?! Anyway, I should make one pretty soon if I decide to go, 'cause I still have to buy a plane ticket!

I had no plans for New Years so I decided to accept Jera's invitation and go to Tokyo with her and some tunisians (cause her bf is tunisian). We were supposed to leave at 4pm already and then decided it was too early. So others left at 4pm and Jera, Andreja and I said we'd leave at 5, even though we ended up leaving at 6 then.

Jera said we would go to some restaurant for dinner, but I was so hungry on the train already that I couldn't wait. So we stopped at Akihabara to look for McDonalds, but we couldn't find it. So we just went to another fast food place for burgers and it wasn't bad. Later we had no idea how to get to Roppongi so we called Jera's bf for instructions and then made a really big circle around the station before we finally found the Hibiya line. Yeah, our orientation is great! ;) Kyle decided to join us from there and I was really happy about that ^^

In roppongi we went to this really expensive restaurant. I ordered some fussili and I got about 10 of them on my plate. It kind of looked sad. Well it was good at least, but so expensive for such a small amount. Not that I really cared, I was just happy we went for burgers before coming to roppongi ;) But the wine was really good!!! I just love merlot :)

I'm not sure where others planed to be at midnight, but I was hoping we wouldn't stay at the restaurant. Although that's exactly what happened. It was so weird. We were still staying in line and paying when suddenly there were only 10 seconds left, so we just did a countdown there. It was really weird, but at the same time kind of funny :)

After dinner we went to a club called Vanilla. It was probably one of the biggest clubs I've ever been to. It was cool, but I didn't really like the music. I wanted to dance more, but to that kind of music I wasn't even sure how. It was fun anyway.

After that we went for some burgers again and then back to Tsukuba. We should be in Tsukuba before 8am, but we fell asleep. When I woke up the train was heading back to Akihabara already, so Kyle and I had to wait about 15mins to get another train. :S

Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!!! ^^

On Christmas I went to Osaka with Ania. She was meeting some polish friends there and invited me to come along. We left Tsukuba around 11pm and arrived to Osaka around 9am (with 1 hour delay). From there on Ania was completely lost and sent about a hundred mails to Kasha before we managed to get to Mito (or was it Mino?), which is about an hour away.

Kasha's room is much bigger than rooms in Hirasuna, but I still wouldn't wanna study there. I mean, all the shops are so far away that it took us hours before we got everything we needed. Plus it's kind of on a hill, so the road goes up and down all the time.
In the evening we had a big christmas dinner with 12 different dishes, as it is a custom in Poland. But I think after the sixth or seventh we couldn't really eat anymore. The food was really good, even though there were mushrooms in EVERY dish, and I really don't like mushrooms... we drank lots of umeshu and spiced wine and had fun. But I was sooo tired, 'cause I didn't sleep much on the bus, that I was hardly able to keep my eyes opened after midnight.

The next day we slept till twelve. I was hoping we'd go someplace, so I'd get to see a bit of Osaka, and the girls decided to go to this big park with animals. But first, girls wanted to stop at this bookoff to buy some mangas and I think we spent more than an hour and a half there. Of course then it was already to late to go anywhere, so we just went back home... I was really disappointed. :( Oh but at least I got two Harry Potter books in japanese ^^ It has furigana and it's soo easy to understand, even without a dictionary.

On tuesday we went to the Universal Studios, even though I kept saying all week that it would rain on tuesday. We should have gone on monday when it was nice and sunny. But ok, we went on tuesday. I was sooo excited about going there, and when we finally arrived we had to wait in a looong line for tickets. Argh... I was so impatient to get inside. It wasn't bad, but still kind of disappointing. :S I mean, even Gardaland is so much better. Plus it was raining the whole day and we got soaking wet. At the end I was freezing and couldn't wait to go home. I didn't care about seeing Spiderman or anything else anymore. We did wait for Back to the future before we left and that was actually worth it. We got back home starving and freezing, but still in a good mood. Despite the weather and everything it was still fun.

On wednesday we woke up earlier to go to Kobe, but my shoes were still all wet and I had nothing to wear. So I took Kasha's shoes, which were really nice actually, but didn't look good at all with the clothes I was wearing that day. In Kobe I just had to buy new shoes and I bought almost exactly the same sneakers I had before, except they were black instead of pink. They were pretty cheap too. Then we went to see chinatown and then the port. After that we went to sleep in Martha's room.

The next morning Martha got in quite a lot of troubles because of us sleeping in her room. I guess they must have cameras in the hallways or something. While we were eating breakfast this really annoying woman came and started bugging Marta about it, saying it's against the rules to have people sleep over in the dorm. What a bitch. Then later when we were getting dressed to go out, a guy knocks on the door and just starts yelling at Marta about the same thing. Man, he was really pissed. He said if they ever catch her again she would have to leave. Man I felt so bad about it. :/

The first thing we saw that day was a really strange exhibition called Mysteries of the human body. It was totally disgusting. There were real bodies cut open or in peaces so you could really see how it looks like inside. It really made me sick :S There were real human brains you could pick up to see how much it weighs. Like who would want to pick up real human brains? Well the japanese obviously. None of us wanted to touch it.

After that we went to Ijinkan. A part of Kobe that doesn't look at all japanese. There you can see an austrian house, dutch house etc. Was interesting. The american house there is at the same time a teddy-bear museum. That was interesting, but kind of creepy at the same time. Then later we stopped at some temple to see a big buddha statue. And from then on we went to the beach in Kobe. That was really nice!!! Later we also saw a really nice and big temple... or was it shrine? :S

After that we went back to Osaka, 'cause my bus was leaving at 10pm. It took us about half an hour before we actually found the bus station. After missing that bus in Kyoto I wanted to make sure I was waiting on the right place.

The whole trip was fun and the girls were nice, even though they often talked in polish :P I was just a bit disappointed I didn't see anything in Osaka. :( But at least I saw Kobe.

A few days ago I dreamed it was summer again and I went back to Slovenia... I remember walking around in Ljubljana and thinking how much I wanna go back to Japan! I was so sad that I wasn't in Japan anymore that I suddenly started crying! ... Then I woke up and I saw I was still in my little room in Tsukuba - yay! ^^ Man, what a nightmare! :S
I don't know what I'll do when I really have to go back... ah! I don't even want to think about it! >_<

Anyway, today I felt my first earthquake in Japan! Yay! :D I woke up around 6am, 'cause the radiators were making so much noise! I thought they would finally turn on the heating, but no... Suddenly my bed started shacking and I didn't even realize it was an earthquake at first. It lasted about 10seconds I think and it wasn't a big one, so it was ok. ;)

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

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(This is just one long post of complaints! So... if you don't feel like listening to me complaining again... just skip it ^^)

Omg... I still can't believe these japanese people... they always find a way to disappoint me! I seriously thought they were so smart and everything, but... nah, it's not really like that. So what I'm gonna complain about in this post (complaining again, yeah i know, but... you'll see why!) is their school. Now I'm not sure how they real schools work, 'cause this international school is not even a "real" school, but...

Ok so you know I'm working at this school where we teach children english. I've been working there since september already and I really thought everything was going fine, actually, I KNEW I was doing a really good job in my class, but... obviously a good class in Europe and a good class in Japan is not the same thing. You guys are all studying to be teachers one day, right? But if you ever plan to teach in Japan, forget about all the things you learned in all the pedagogics and didactics and whatever classes, 'cause you won't need that here. Actually, you should just remember the examples about the things you shouldn't do in class and how the class shouldn't look like, 'cause this is exactly the kind of class they want here! So as long as you come completely unprepared and just do workbook all the time, then it's ok! Don't even think about trying to make class more interesting with maybe using some of your own ideas, or using some other material other than workbook... no way! 'Cause you know... it doesn't really matter how much the kids learn, you know? Oh did you think school was about kids? Noooo! It's about a workbook really! If the workbook is full, that means the kids can speak english, if it's not, if you for example skip some exercises because lets face it, no workbook is perfect and there are always some exercises which are completely useless and inappropriate, so that (the empty pages in workbook) means that you're not doing anything in class and the kids haven't learned anything. Well I really wish someone told me that at the beginning, 'cause it would save me a lot of work and time... but no, stupid me wanted to make a good class and actually put some effort in it... how stupid am I, heh?

Anyway, at least according to mrs.K (a f...ing bitch who runs this school) it's like this. On thursday when I came to school she was all panicking about the workbook: "omg omg, you're skipping things!! kids have to learn this, all pages need to be done!"... I mean I tried to explain that the kids know all that already, 'cause some of the exercises we did orally, some we did a bit differently, so we wrote the answers in notebooks and not in the workbook... and bla bla bla... but it was like talking to the wall... I mean she didn't even try to listen. She just went on and on about the same stuff: "no no, the workbook needs to be done! all the exercises! Otherwise parents will look at the workbook and see empty pages and they will loose our trust..." Oh come on mrs.K! Be serious! I mean ok, you may be this stupid, but I'm pretty sure all the parents aren't. So by checking the pages in a workbook they will know how the class is going and how much the kids know? Well no! That's why they talk to their kids (i hope) and ask them and that's why I talk to them! Every time after class I talk to kids' parents and tell them what we did and how the kids are doing and all... so come on! They're gonna loose our trust? Why is that again? They know what we're doing.
But of course mrs.K didn't listen to this either... she just continued repeating the same shit over and over again. I told her "Well, I'm sorry, I actually thought what mattered was how much the kids learn, I didn't know it was only about a work book" And she kept on "no no, the workbook has to be done!" Seriously... I can't believe it... is she really that stupid?
So ok, I thought, if she doesn't care about anything but her stupid workbook, ok, we'll only do workbook from now on. So I thought that was the end of this stupid conversations... or a monologue actually, 'cause she doesn't listen anyway.

So ok, the next hour of class we just did workbook, as she wanted. And at the end of the class she comes to me and she says: "the umbrella, the umbrella.." And I said: "yeah, i gave it back to you last week." "Well yeah, but it was broken." Me:"oh?" "Yeah, it was a new umbrella and when I opened it, it was broken." "Well I'm sorry to hear about that, but I didn't break your umbrella, when I brought it back it wasn't broken..." And bla bla bla... and I was already pissed about the thing we had earlier, because she really made it sound like i do nothing in class and i'm some sort of a bad teacher and whatever... and then she accuses me of breaking her umbrella??? OMG! I really thought I would just punch her in the face! Arrrgggg!!!

So I totally hate her now! Ok I knew when I first saw her, that she was weird, but I didn't think she was that stupid! And you know... she said: "Other teachers are doing workbook and are doing a really good job." Ok so I'm not doing a good job? Does she even know what we do in class? No and she doesn't care. So, Andreja, whose english (compared to mine) pretty much sucks... is doing a good job, 'cause she's just using a workbook. And I'm not doing a good job? Whatever...

So I today I came to school again and I had to listen to mrs.K again and again. The same sentences! I'm serious, if I hear that "if parents see empty workbook they will loose our trust" sentence again... i will punch her! Well I have to wait to get paid for last month first, THEN I'll punch her. Actually she should have paid me today already, but ok... I'll wait till next week. But next week I'm not leaving without my money!

Phew! Wow! That's one long post! I feel much better now! ^^

Ok it's about time I update my LJ.
Last weekend Kyle and I went to Kyoto for 3 (well actually 4) days! It was great! I love Kyoto and Nara! I definitely plan to go there again! ^^

Anyway, we left Tsukuba around 11pm on thursday and took a bus straight to Kyoto. The bus was amazing! There were only three seats in each row and there was a lot of space between seats, so there was really enough room. We also got a blanket, a pillow and slippers, so we could make ourselves as comfortable as possible. So I really had no problem sleeping all night :)

We arrived around 6:30 to Kyoto and looked around the famous Kyoto station. There was already a big xmas tree and they were playing christmas songs already (really nice, but way too early!). Actually pretty much everything was still closed when we got there, so we had to wait about an hour and a half before we could buy a city map. So we went to check this temple near the station in the meantime. It was the first temple I've ever seen, so I was really excited. But then later, after I saw other temples, I realized it wasn't all that special after all. :)

After we got the map we took the train to Inari station and went to see the Fushimi Inari shrine. I couldn't believe how many tori gates were there! Thousands probably. They go all the way to the top of the mountain! Amazing really!

After checking in to our hostel (which wasn't bad at all), we went to get something to eat and then visited the Sanjuusangen-do, a temple where you can see thousand statues of a God called Kannon. There's a big statue in the middle, and then 500 smaller statues on each side. But unfortunately it's not allowed to take photos inside, so... -_-

Next was Kiyomizu temple. The most interesting thing there was a watter fall called "Otowa no taki". You use a metal cup to fetch the water and drink it, and it's said that drinking this watter brings health, success etc. Of course everyone wanted to drink it, so we had to wait in a line for a bit.

When we got back to the hostel we met a nice japanese guy called Naoya and we invited him to go with us to Ginkakuji the next day, so we spend the whole day sightseeing together :) We saw the ginkakuji (silver pavilion), then a smaller temple or shrine, but I can't remember the name >_< , and then Nanzen-ji. After that we went to eat okonomiyaki and it was really really good!!! I love okonomiyaki!! ^^

The next thing we saw was a shrine called Heian-Jingu. It has amazing gardens! I loved it really! ^^ After that we went to another shrine or temple, but we couldn't enter, cause they closed it at 4pm, so we just missed it. No idea what temple was that... man, we saw too many temples, I can't remember so many names :P

In the evening Naoya went to visit a friend in Osaka, and Kyle and I went to the movies to see World Trade Center. It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't anything special either. You know, a typical tragedy movie: some tragedy happens, and then they spend the whole movie rescuing people.

On third day we saw kinkakuji, which was really really beautiful!!! Then... then... oh right, then we saw Ryoan-ji and Ninna-ji, and after that we went to Arashiyama, where we saw this famous bridge and the monkey park ^^ Was so cool! Those monkeys just run around and one of them tried to steal my bag :D So cool. But when they start running around like crazy and start making this strange sounds... well they can be a bit scary. There was also a really great view from the top of the mountain where the monkey park is located, but the photos didn't come out that well... they are too bright :(

In the evening we waited in Starbucks till 10:30pm and then went to wait for our bus. But... we weren't really sure where to wait and it turned out we waited on the wrong place, so we missed our bus. I was sooo tired and my legs (especially my knees) hurts to bad... I just wanted to sleep! I had no idea what to do when I realized we missed our bus. Kyle was really pissed... We left our stuff in a locker and went to Mankitsu, where we could use the computer, watch tv, read mangas and have free drinks for 7 hours for only 1500yen. But all we wanted was to sleep... we did a bit, but it was hard to sleep on that small sofa...

In the morning we called the bus station and told them what happened. They told us we should buy knew bus tickets and we would get our money back when we arrive back to Tsukuba. That was ok. So we bought new bus tickets and then later remembered we could actually buy tickets for shinkansen! But... it was too late. Too bad. Oh but at least we had another day for sightseeing, so we went to Nara to see the deers :) They were everywhere!!! I seriously didn't know there were so many deers in Nara! They're so accustomed to people that they're not afraid at all. You can pet them and give them food. ^^ We saw the todaiji too. It looked amazing. And inside there's a 15m tall statue of Buddha! :O

Anyway, the whole trip was really interesting. I loved Kyoto and Nara! But I spent sooo much money. I also bought some omiyage: a couple of Darumas ^^, a kimono hello kitty for my cell-phone, a small mirror and okashi!!! Wow, okashi from Kyoto is sooo yummy!!! And I finally bought some postcards (more than 30 actually) :) So don't worry, you'll all get your postcards soon ^^

Well, I could write more, but... I'm getting tired. Wanna go home and eat the rest of my okashi ^^
Btw the photos form Kyoto and Nara are already on my online photo album.

And I know there are lots of spelling and grammar mistakes I should correct, but... I really don't feeling like reading all this again, so... fxxk it! :P