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Comment on this entry and I'll give you a letter.
List ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter (I assume nouns, adj and verbs all count).
Then list 10 things you hate beginning with the same letter.
I got 'C'
Love
1) Cats
2) Colour
3) Coldplay
4) Chocolate
5) Candles
6) Cake
7) Children
8) Chairs
9) Clothes
10)Changes (The David Bowie song)
Hate
1) Crying
2) Creepy people
3) Custard
4) Clowns
5) Celine Dion
6) Cramps
7) Crap
8) Christina Aguleira
9) Clutter
10)Cabbage
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[14 Jul 2008|06:55pm] |
Quick question....
I'm sure this has been asked before but here goes...
Is there anything interesting to do in Brisbane CBD on Tuesday nights for a group of 10 people? My friend is going back home to the UK on Wednesday and I'm looking for something a little different (other than movies/casino etc)
I'd appreciate any suggestions!
Thanks!
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[11 Sep 2007|08:45pm] |
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Been back from Japan for around 6 weeks now and not a day goes by that I don't miss the place and the friends I made there like crazy. Wish I was back there really, considering what I've had to do sinc I've been back. So far I've:
-stayed in 4 houses in 4 different areas
-moved into the 4th house I've stayd at. Its in Red Hill, nice and close to the city. My room is fairly big with an ensuite and a deck that looks onto Mt Cootha. Purdy.
-helped furnish said house
-started uni
-regretted taking a 4 year degre bcause most of my friends are graduates earning nice graduate paychecks
-got my old job back and a $4 hour pay rise (yay!)
-tried to sort out my post-exchange stuff and japanese credits.
-caught up with most of my friends...those of you I haven't seen yt...I'm working on it :)
-bought a ticket to the US of A to see my man-I gt to spend Xmas and New Years at my boyf's mum's house...which could be great, but also could blow up in my face seeing as she's quite religious. That may mean separat beds and no hanky panky :(
I have been having issues with my uni workload of late, as in I have too much to do and not enough motivation to do it. Uni in Japan is so easy compard to here.
I've just realised that my e key isn't working properly-sorry about the bad spelling.
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As the chapter in my life titled `Japan` comes to an end, all I can say is wow! It was absolutely incredible and if I could do it all again I wouldn`t do anything differently. I wish I had of gotten better at Japanese, but my understanding has expanded so much over these past 10 months that I don`t really have any regrets.
Today has been a very emotional day. Before I came here I didn`t really cry or express emotions a hell of a lot, but today I`ve cried so much I think i`m all dried out. Saying goodbye to Joe was probably one of the hardest things I`ve ever done. I love him so much, but I keep telling myself that I`ll see him in 5 months so it`s not that long. The waterworks started today when I got a beautiful letter from one of the RA`s about me and Joe :(
Shit. My flight is boarding now and my net time is just about out.
Back to home I go!
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[10 Jul 2007|03:02pm] |
Today marks the start of my final week in Japan.
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In 7 days I'll be setting foot in my home country and I my emotions are so mixed that putting them into words won't do them justice.
Twinges of sadness happen everytime I look at Joe now, knowing that our remaining time together is so precious.
Feeling as if I've learnt a lot about not only the Japanese language, but also about myself and other people.
There are so many people here from all different backgrounds and walks of life and it's been wonderful learning about anything and everything.
My perspective on Japan is polarised from the notions I had prior to coming to Nagoya. The people are really nice and not that racist (well not to my face anyways) I've met two beautiful families whom I'll both miss very very much and will try to keep in touch with no matter how rusty my Japanese becomes.
Part of me wants to come home, and part of me wants to stay. if only I could clone myself.....
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[25 Jun 2007|03:42pm] |
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So I have just found out that I have an extra report to write for my scholarship before I leave, which leaves me with 2 reports and 2 presentations to do in the next 2 weeks. That's not on top of the daily Japanese work which I have to do that is gradually increasing because the grammar, etc we're now learning is a little harder.
But I'm feeling good about it because I had a really great weekend! Joe, another friend and I went to Tokyo Disney sea on Saturday and it rocked!!!!! The rides there are a lot better than the Disneyland attractions, and cause it's Disney they're not too full-on (I'm such a wuss when it comes to thrill rides). But doing that in a day meant that we left at 6am and got back a little past midnight, so I was hella tired yesterday. The weather was on our side too, it pissed down rain yesterday but was bright and sunny on Saturday.
I still can't believe that in around 3 weeks all this will be over. I have been giving more and more thought into whats going to happen when I get back, while trying to keep my mind on the present ie: Japan. GAH!
I'm off to watch the final 2 eps of Firefly.
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| It's the final countdown.... |
[18 Jun 2007|05:01pm] |
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So I've got exactly 30 days before I leave this country for 'greener' pastures...and I've hit somewhat of a crossroads.
Normally I like to be in control and have everything planned, leaving next to nothing to chance. But now I've no idea what to do when I get back. I'm feeling like I can't be assed with uni next semester so I want to take a semester off, but then what the hell am I going to do for 6 months??? I don't wanna work full time because I'll be doing that for the rest of my life after I finally graduate, but I don't wanna bum around.
But what I've been thinking about most involves 'Joe' and 'future' and 'how the fuck am I going to survive 6 months without him?' I've always preferred dating over relationships because of the excitement of a text from a guy I gave my number to or the prospect of a hot date. Relationships are too stuffy and unexciting, I thought. Meeting Joe, though, changed all that and I really don't wanna let him go.
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Ok I took a little break to stop myself from crying. I'm trying to think positive thoughts now, about all the fun and exciting things we're trying to do before we part ways. This weekend we're trying to get to Tokyo Disney Sea, and possibly Universal Studios the weekend after that. It helps that this months scholarship came in today, so free money to spend hurrah!
Saw the funniest thing at uni today, a student was wearing a shirt that said 'sing today weep tomorrow'. Emo in a shirt basically. Sorry if this posts a little emo :)
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Dear livejournal,
Sorry that I'm a tad sporadic in posting. I have promised to update more regularly but whenever I actually have time to sit down and do so everything I was meaning to write about just doesn't seem that important. However I am feeling a massive urge to take my mental to do list out of my head.
Things I have to do this week:
-Enrol in Semester 2 courses back home
-Look up specs for my new computer, which will hopefully be mine as of tomorrow
-Mail my mums birthday card, which I bought today but forgot to mail. I figured that getting it a few days late was better than not receiving it at all.
-Try not to kill my fellow business classmates who continually ask stupid completely off topic questions and thus hinder my chance to learn. The class is called Japanese business, not 'differences between America and Japan' . Apologies to my American friends, this is only directed at two people who don't read this (thank god).
-Finish my readings for the past two weeks for said class, I took last week off because I had a big grammar test the next day.
-Decide on my presentation topic for abovementioned class.
-Do my tonne of kanji homework. You will be very pleased to hear that I passed my big kanji exam last week, I got a 72! Yosh!
-Prepare for my listening and speaking *shivers* exam on Friday.
-Try and organise which classes I'm going to skip so that Joe and I can visit Kyushu sometime next month. Last weeks out because of exams, maybe the week before???
-Am I going to Disney Sea before I go??? Must ask fellow I House residents pretty soon.
You probably won't be hearing much from me because of all this stuff I have to get sorted, so until next time,
me.
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Had a great day yesterday. Went and saw the third Pirates of the Carribean and was not disappointed in the slightest. It was much, much better than the second movie, which I thought was a bit blah. Drop what you are doing right now and get thee to a cinema, you'll probably love it.
After the movie was over me and a few friends went searching all over town for a decent club and couldn't find a thing. Nagoya's nightlife is lame. It was times like those that I miss Brissy heaps. We had fun regardless, especially when my friend Ria was being the most hilarious drunken bitch on the train and embarrassed our RA to the point where she wouldn't talk to us-fucking quality.
After getting in a taxi with this really cool cabbie (gotta love the Japanese cabbies, at least they don't try to kiss you like creepy brissy ones) we got home and then I pretty much lost my voice. My throat has really been hurting over the past couple of days and my voice just went 'fuck it'-i'm taking the night off.
I've just finished the fun task of sorting out all my winter clothes/textbooks/souvenirs to ship home! Would never have guessed that so much shit was accumulated by me over the past 8 months!
I smell chicken....must investigate what Joe is cooking for me tonight (I'm sick, so Joe is playing the role of housebitch tonight)
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Livejournal is being such a bastard website to me at the moment. Everytime I try to go back after commenting on my friends pages it shits itself and shuts the page down. I was thinking it was only on the communal computers (where I'm typing this with crossed fingers that it doesn't do the same thing this time) but no, EVERY computer I try is giving me the same message.
I'm beginning to think that I have some type of STD on my hands that's only transmittable via typing :(
So that's why I haven't been posting of late. Only a couple of eventful, um events have happened over the past month or so (see below). My life lately consists of getting up, going to school, homework, eating, sleeping, rinse and repeat. It's been a bit of a struggle after about 3 months of holidays but it's getting better. My class however, isn't. I know that I bombed intermediate Japanese last semester so I've been placed in practically the same class, perhaps a little lower. It's easy as fuck to the point of mind numbing boringness-I need stimulation in my class and lately it's been as stimulating as watching paint dry. Problem is, I'm not exactly up to 2 kyuu level so basically I'm stuck. A guy in my class managed to jump up but I'm not up to his level so 301 it is. *waves happy banner*
I've had boy problems these past 2 nights with 2 different men in my life. Two nights ago I was chatting with my ex boyfriend online, thought it was just going to be a 'hey how are you-what have you been up to-politics-goodnight', nothing unusual really. He was chatting about how good it was when we were together in Australia and how if it wasn't for the half-global distance (he lives in Tel Aviv) we would have (probably) worked out. This I agreed with, until he let slip that he was thinking of coming to Brisbane next year to do an exchange in February, and how that although he's met lots of girls and had a couple of relationships since me that none of them have worked out and that's probably can be attributed to me. I felt as if I'd just opened up a long ago shut filing cabinet in my brain and a bunch of emotions came swirling out of the dust. Sure, I loved him and we didn't have any problems when were together but that was 2 years ago, and although I can't succinctly put it into words I know that I'm not the same person as I was back then. I was angry for him at first for blaming his relationship problems on me but now I don't know what to think. He was the one who left me, not the other way around. I understood that he had to leave then (visas and money are important) but if he really wanted it to work then he would have come back. But he didn't. So now here I am, travelling and in a (somewhat) stable relationship with a guy that I (should) love and he's back at home reminiscing about what might have been. I feel as if the tables have well and truly turned on our relationship and I'm where he was when we were together. Despite all this, I'd love it for him to come to Australia, but not for me, for the exchange experience and Aussie lifestyle (cause it rocks XD) and just hang out and be friends again. It would be selfish of me to tell him not to come back-wouldn't it?
Onto boy dilemma no 2. Last night Joe's band had a gig at Kamimaesu, which was, eventful. The guys in the band are all good musicians individually but you put them together and, well they still haven't got the cohesion down yet. In other words, they sounded awful. So after the show Joe pulls me aside and asks me what I thought and I told him that 'I honestly didn't enjoy it' so he walks off in a huff and has a big mardy. At this point I'm not impressed because he asked for my honest opinion and I gave it to him!!!! We get back to the house and then he lets rip about how I was insulting him and he was really angry at me. I honestly don;t understand what I did wrong in this situation. I know I"m not a perfect girlfriend but in this situation I think that giving him my honest opinion was the best thing to do. I thought that we'd reached a point in our relationship where we could be completely honest with each other, even if it means ruffling each others feathers by telling each other the truth, not what the other wants to hear. But I don't think that we're there yet. Thinking of Shahar has also made me compare relationships (I know, I shouldn;t but I can't help it). Like how things with Shahar were never frustrating and things with Joe are, and how he actually listened to what I say and with Joe sometimes he;s listening but I can tell his minds elsewhere.
I need to figure out what the hell to get my mum for a mothers day present....any suggestions?
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| All good things must come to an end.... |
[05 Apr 2007|05:17pm] |
Well holidays are now officially over-today I had my first day of class-and it was eventful. Before being placed in your respective classes everyone must sit a few fun exciting things known as placement tests. As a result of said tests people have generally been dissatisfied with where they have been placed and what they have to learn this semester...and one of the guys in my class was making me uncomfortable with his attitude in the first class. Fingers crossed he'll be over it tomorrow. Basically my class is the same in format and syllabus (which I needed as I failed last semester) but with different teachers (ie. ones I actually like.)
Joe and I made the most of the end of our holidays by going on a mini break to Kyoto for 3 days last weekend. We couldn't find ANYWHERE to stay there so ended up resorting to love hotels (!) for 2 nights. Now that was an interesting experience. First it took ages to find the district where they were situated because I wrote down the directions wrong (fucking kanji), then it started to rain/storm, then we got rejected by a old bitch receptionist there who gave us a patronising look and told us 'japanese only' when we enquired about staying there-grrr racism here shits me. Besides that Kyoto was absolutely gorgeous because of the hanami (cherry blossom festival!) so we went to a bunch of famous places (Ginkaku-ji, To-ji, Sanjusangendou Temple) that were surrounded by beautiful sakura-they are everywhere in this country! No wonder Japan is sakura obsessed!!!
I got super embarrassed today because of my boyfriend revealing something about our sex life to our mates-I wont go into details...needless to say it's very funny!
I'm still deciding where to go to dinner...what to do tonight...probably watch another disney movie like I did last night with everyone...the Lion King is such a wonderful film with a great soundtrack-I forgot how much I enjoyed that movie. So much so I've been humming Lion King songs all day today and it's driving me insane!
I have recently become obsessed with writing letters to my rellies and friends...if anyone would like a handwritten letter from me (on cute Japanese paper) please comment and I'll email you for your address.
That is all.
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This isn't really an entry as such, just a promise to myself to update my lj tomorrow-I have seen and done so many exciting things this past week that just thinking about them right now gives me a headache. I'm off to bed-gotta get up for first day back at school tomorrow!
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Apologies for the content of this post...if you are offended by penises or urination please stop reading here.
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A couple of days ago a bunch of new and old students went (for cultural purposes of course) to the penis festival around an hour or so outside Nagoya. The festival is actually held so as to worship/pray to the god of fertility, however the reason for my visit was to buy as much penis paraphernalia as possible! I heard from japanzine that they sold penis lollipops, and bought them I did!
After checking out all the penis stuff on sale, from sake glasses to sausages, the main event began. Basically this was a parade where a huge wooden penis was paraded through the main street and priests handed out sake. A couple of girls in our group were interviewed and ended up on TV!!! Awesome awesome fun!
Last night we had a party for the new people who arrived...very fun. Before the party started we had a meeting to run through I house life with the new people...blah blah blah pretty boring really, except for the part where the RA's told us not to pee in the shower!!! Apparently 'skin flakes clog the shower' so you mustn't pee. Can someone please explain this to me?????
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Band: Bathtub Implosion
Venue: The Tightrope, Sakae, Nagoya
Time: Yesterday, 3:00pm
Verdict: Awesome!
Joe's band Bathtub Implosion played a brief set (3 songs) whilst very very drunk. Was very excited to see Joe play, I had to film my TV program the other time they played, but was informed that his drumming has improved a shitload since he last played on Boxing Day. Their songs were about clown rape and zombies, which would have been better if we were able to hear the words, guitars completely drowned out any vocals.
Have spent the past few days watching the greatness that is Heroes. I have now caught up to episode 18 and am completely addicted. It's a nice change from anime. Or this:
http://www.potterpuppetpals.com/sexy.swf
So silly...yet can't look away....
New people arrive next week to start the new semester. Quite a few are from good ole Oz, for which I am grateful, am getting quite lonely without anyone from Australia here to talk to! Each new person gets a small drawing with their name and welcome to I house written on it. Last semester a guy from adelaide drew these strange figures, i just assumed they were random anime characters from a show i hadn't heard of. I was shocked to find out several months later that they were pineapples! Who the fuck would draw pineapples in Japan, a place where the shitty shitty 'pinepapples' they sell here cost around AUS $6-15 each????
Other than that...went to Okinawa for a week a while back. Really reminded me of Queensland, the flowers, beach and climate were very similar to home. It was nice after spending 5 months (but feels like so much longer) stuck in cramped Nagoya. Even nicer was being able to go on base with Joes friends parents and actually understanding most of the food that was on the shelves in the commisary! I thought I was going well until I picked up a can and asked if it was pringles, only for joe to tell me it was beef jerky! oops.....
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I got incredibly frustrated today when I checked my email only to find that half of the post I wrote last night had been lost to cyberspace. I'm not sure where that is exactly, my guess-somewhere in the vicinity of the land of the lost socks. I lost one of my white ones recently, speaking of.
What I was trying to mention that my darling friend heavenlea (who I spoke to about this tonight) had created a rockhampton based community, and that I'd dreamt that not only did I have a dream in which I vividly recall changing my lj format as well as look up a community that my best friend created! It was so strange that as soon as my boyfriend woke up I immediately, which is a rarity as he's always the one that can recall his dreams in unbelievable detail. However this was a while ago as he is currently in Kyoto and I have not seen him for the past 3 days and as such am feeling a little lonesome as I write this. A lot of the people living here have been gallivanting about the countryside so it's been eerily quite of late.
This morning I watched The Island. This was an ordeal as the TV I bought off another guy did not come with a remote so I cannot scroll on DVD menus, etc. Which usually isnt a problem as most western movies arent dubbed in Japanese, but when they are it frustrates the shit out of me! However once I got it to work in english (which took ages because of my limited kanji knowledge) it was well worth it. Gets you thinking about stem cell research and the whole clone issue.
It's winter vacation here at the moment so I haven't been in Nagoya a lot. A couple of weeks ago me, Joe and 3 English mates travelled by boat up to Sapporo for the Winter Festival. I have never seen so much snow in my life! It was awesome, frolicking around in the snow and checking out some big ass ice sculptures, chocolate and beer factories as well as snow land (my personal favorite) with a snow maze, which made for good coverage in our endless snowball fights. If I had a dollar for every snowball thrown I could have paid for my entire trip!
3 days after we all got back I went to go on homestay for 3 nights that started on Valentines Day. Joe gave me a cute little teddy bear and a big bag of American chocolate. I'm now up to my ears in Hersheys runts and Reeces Peanut Cups-yummo.
My homestay experience was in a word: interesting. My family were the average Japanese, a workaholic father which I rarely saw, a stay at home mother and 2 young daughters aged 2 and 6. The daughters were adorable, and it felt good to be able to interact with people with similar level of language as me. The 2 year old was especially gorgeous, I said 'cute' and 'very good' all the time as she tried to form words. It wore me out a little though, I forgot how energetic children were. My host mother arranged for me to try a whole bunch of different things, to get a taste of typical Japanese life so to speak. I wore a kimono (which took 4 old ladies to dress me and do my hair) and tried to do a traditional umbrella dance with my 6 year old sister who's learning this complicated traditional dance for the sakura festival in April. The 2 year old didn't recognise me in my kimono and was scared of me, poor thing. I felt like hugging her and telling her it was me but she looked so scared, bless.
Who I didn't want to hug was the 3 year old child who tried to put his hands down my top after he said my breasts were big!!! I was mortified...this kid was 3 YEARS OLD!!!! This happened at a takoyaki party (mmm takoyaki) my host mother organised and her friends and their children came, so I had both parents and children to interact with. Worst part was he tried to grab them another time, this time was in front of the mother though. If that were my child I would have slapped him, and god I felt like slapping this little charmer but I forced myself not to. The mother then proceeded to apologise by saying that he must have learnt those words off his older siblings, after which a long discussion about breasts and how mine were big ensued. I pretended not to hear. Japanese people are absolutely oppai (breast) obsessed! I was able to find a wicked little phone charm in Hokkaido with a pair of breasts and a body like the shape of hokkaido with 'oppaido!' carved in in pink writing.
Tomorrow I go to Osaka to meet up with my boyfriend, boyfriends friend and his parents (which are my boyfriends adopted parents as he's lived with them for the past 3 years) so as to fly out to Okinawa the day after for a week long vacation. I'm not getting my hopes up about the beach (which I have heard is just like Queensland's) or the warm weather (it's mid 20's). Nor am I too hopeful about being able to hold my tongue in front of the parents, who are quite political and vegetarians (a tough ask in this country-meat in put in EVERYTHING). Its also slightly complicated with me and my boyfriends friend as we don't have anything in common and don't really get along that well, like to bitch about each other yet when face to face are nice as pie. I'm nervous, but am crossing my fingers and hoping that the week doesn't self combust but goes along smoothly.
I bought a couple of Sophie Kinsella novels today. They looked like just the thing to enjoy on the beach. Or in the bath, which is where I'm headed for now.
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I have had quite a few things happen in my life of late, some eventful and some not so eventful, therefore I feel the need to express my thoughts about said events electronically. Since Jodi (my American mum) gave me a beautiful journal titled 'Blessings' for Christmas, I have been keeping a purikura-oriented diary of my life in that, and don't really feel the need for livejournal anymore.
While searching for a rockhampton based lj community, I was surprised to see that my darling ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) heavenlea [Unknown LJ tag]
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As I slipped in and out of sleepy thoughts today on the train back from osaka a normally unimportant thought gained momentum inside me until I was terribly shaken. I'll be 22 in 10 days. Bit deal, no. Not normally. However today I was terribly terribly scared of getting slightly older. Around the time of her birthday I'll always ask my mum how old she is, and the answer is always the same..."21". I'm freaked out that I'll be like that one day and feel that I have to lie about my age. I'd like to think that I'll age gracefully, but due to the fact I've lived in a sunny climate my entire life combined with my fair complexion all I'm seeing for the future is age spots and skin cancers *shudders*
Bad thoughts aside, Osaka wasn't that bad. A little quiet and all which was to be expected considering it's new years and people tend to go back home (ie. countryside) for a few days, but we checked out the observatory which gave us a sweet ass view of the city as well as a shrine on New Years Day. What was bad was that I couldn't get drunk on New Years Eve. It's not like I couldn't, more like there wasn't much alcohol by way of bevs and bars around in Umeda. I only wish that after a few drinks I wouldn't get so emotional like I do sometimes, poor joe copped a bit of shit from me, which I hope will not happen again.
In the same vein, I've decided to get a few 'resolutions' (which I'll call promises to myself-resolutions have been done to death in my opinion) together for this new 2007. I promise to not lash out in anger whenever I'm frustrated/unhappy/helpless. I'll promise to cut down on fried food for the sake of my waistline, which has slightly increased since I arrived in the land of nihon. I promise to finish the end of buffy the vampire slayer. I promise to be a better girlfriend/friend. I'm not too sure how to go about doing the last one, suggestions are always welcomed.
I just received an email from my host mother and am at a complete loss what to say to her. I'm sorry I've ignored you for a couple of months, but whenever I try to email/call it either wont send/get through?? I'm sorry I've been busy travelling around Japan which has left me with little time to see you??
Nah that can wait til tomorrow. Memoirs of a Geisha however, cannot.
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2 things that have excited me over the past couple of days, and they both involve a white substance (minds out of gutter, please.)
Firstly I got to not only see, but play around and ski in the snow!!! I felt as if I had been transported into one of those tacky Xmas cards with nothing but snow covered trees on the cover. Subarashii na!
I was also stoked to wake up after a measly 4 hours sleep to snow in Nagoya! It should not have been snowing because the sun was out, logically thinking, but it did (albiet briefly) and i'm so excited.
I'm still slightly peeved, my white xmas dream was not realised *sigh*
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I really need to buy a schedule book. You know, a few pages bound together that contains your life for a year. They have so many over here, and they're all so cute-I don't know which one to choose from. But looking back/forward on my last/future few days, I'm starting to come around to the writing stuff down idea.
18th December: Cleaned my room all day for a 20 second inspection (!) and packed for Tokyo. Got on bus at 11:30pm, arrived Tokyo at 6:00am.
19th December: First of three days in Tokyo. Walked around Imperial Palace East Gardens in search of food, then realised that only food available in middle of Tokyo was in Tokyo eki. FInally found a first kitchen (i heart that place) for breakfast and a sit down. Then onto Yasukuni Shrine, followed my Meiji Jingu, Harajuku (where I found orange massage oil yay) and back to the hotel for a very early night.
20th December: 2 words-TOKYO.DISNEYLAND. Happily lost my Disneyland virginity to Tokyo. So much fun for 5800yen. Walked around all day and did everything (I mean everything-I thought that Dreamworld and Movieworld were full on days.) I felt like a child again, and I managed to score a horrendously overpriced Aurora pen in the gift shop. It's such a magical place, and so colorful. Another early night.
21st December: Shinjuku, Ginza and Asakusa. Seen one temple and shopping district, seen them all, especially when you're tired as shit and you're legs feel like lead. Another 11:30pm bus, hit Nagoya at 6:00am.
22nd December: Slept for 4 hours, then woke Joe up for band practice. Couldn't go back to sleep as I had a telephone interview with a TV station at 3pm that didn't eventuate, and didn't want to sleep after that as my body clock would have been really damaged.
23rd December: went shopping for Joe's Xmas gifts. Never have I seen Nagoya so busy, turns out it was the Emperors Birthday and a National Holiday. A fact seeming unnoticed by businesses, which were trading as usual. Bless Japan's economy.
24th December (today): wrapped pressies, emailing ppl atm, helping prepare Xmas dinner, also have to figure out what to pack for skiing on the 27th. Must write thankyou letter for caretaker in japanese (see 26th). Also have to shop for tomorrows food.
25th December: give/recieve (if I've been a good girl) pressies, 10am: phone interview with TV station (see 26th) Xmas dinner at 1:30pm, very early night.
26th December: 8:00am-7:00pm- I'm the subject of a one hour TV program (a comedy) hosted by two guys. The concept is that I 'wrote into the TV station' (*read: TV station contacted my dorm and for some reason unknown to me my name was pitched, had a brief telephone interview and then was selected to represent my uni) wanting to thank my caretaker since I've been here and they're going to help me thank her. Which somehow involves me learning how to do street dancing in the middle of the city as well as going to Osu Kannon during the day for ???? all of which will be filmed and be shown on TV here on the 7th February. Should be fun *shudders* 9:00pm: leave on bus for Nagano.
27th-28th-29th December:skiing in Nagano!
30th December-2nd January: New Years in Osaka.PARTY!
Merry Christmas and Happy New year!
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