Hm dunno i catched a cold.
それは残念。でおれは今日はきっと彼女と会うと思ったんだし…

このくそったれ風がひいた。

Yeah yeah guess it is stay in for me today...

Not posted in a long time...

Sorry guys.

I have  not had the time or will to post in a long time...

There is a lot of things happening all the time, and I have therefore little time to post anything.

 The least I can do now is summarize a bit of what has happened during the time since the last post.

First of all I went to Kyoto just two days after the post.

It was a really nice experience and I found that I really like Kyoto.

The city as a mix between really old buildings and streets and newly built markets and centers.

You can walk through a new part of town, enjoying window shopping, and then suddenly find yourself a midst old temples and shrines. If you enter one of the temple gates, you are immediately surrounded by old buildings and nothing  seems to be from newer eras except for the vending machines, which are everywhere in Japan.

In Kyoto I went to a temple called Kyo Mizu Dera, it is, if not the most famous temple in and sight in Kyoto and a lot of tourists visits all year around. I also went down Philosophers street, a famous street in Kyoto, known for couples walking it holding hands...

The second day I were there I went to Arashiyama, and Tenryuji, a famous temple in Arashiyama. Arashiyama was a very nice and although also packed with tourists it was more quiet and serene than Kyoto's newer districts. It also has a really nice Bamboo forest which you can walk through, and which I immediately fell in love with.

After Kyoto I had a lot of work that needed be done.  I was to prepare a student comment for the school prospectus. We had several tests after the trips and I spent a lot of time out by the start of november.

The last week I've been attending the Kyudo again after a long absence from it because of all that happened. I want to buy my own bow now, but the NOK is doing badly and so I don't wanna do it yet as a bow here is not cheap, about 40,000 yen. But once I buy one I will be allowed shooting at the range as my skill is more than good enough now. But there is not a bow long enough for me to really be able to shoot with.. (-_-)¤ 

John left us three days ago.. I think Kimmy his girlfriend is missing him very much. She doesn't seem too upbeat these days. I hope she'll survive the waiting time 'til he comes back.

I hope he is working hard back in Norway as he said he would. And that he doesn't forget us down here:)

(Btw if you're reading John. I don't know if you managed to steal one. But I got the poster of your man. He is hanging in my room now. Watching me as I sleep!! I'll bring him home with me!)

Two days ago was my birthday. I had a really nice day:)

I even got a cake from one of the girls in my class, and a lot of gifts as well.

My roommate even decided to decorate my door with a lot of small stickers...

And best of all I got Norwegian chocolate and chips from my family.. Yum!! I ate it with Mari, whom I went on a date with the same day. We saw P.S. I Love You. Which is an american movie I think.. There were a lot of famous actors, amongst those Hilary Swank, whom I actually regard as a far better actor than others coming from that God-forbidden hollywood. 

The movie was actually better than I had expected. And there were also a few other guys, probably with their dates, watching it as well. 

Today I am going to celebrate my birthday at St. James bar. And probably later go to a club. It is a shame John couldn't be here to celebrate but that's how it is..

Anyway I will try posting more in the coming days and hope you are still reading:)

Purikura

Purikura is one of the most known Japanese phenomenon’s except for

 karoke and arcades.

Purikura is an english import word,

 an abbreviation of “purinto kurabu” which means “print club” in English..

In Japan you’ll have your purikura

 taken at least once during your life if

 you are Japanese, and most likely about 100 times..

Purikura’s are a special form of photo where you, hopefully in company of other merry people, walk into a big photo box to get your photo taken. Once in the photo box you choose backgrounds and how many pictures. POSE and get some nice pictures, and do a wide variety of after-touches to them afterwards to make them look really cool.

Purikura’s are highly addictive and one can end up taking a lot of them without having a reason for it. You can get the pictures in print-form and on your cell as a wallpaper. The print-form is really neat as it is actually a sticker!! 

Now while I’ve been in Japan I have had the the chance of taking many purikura’s. I also really recommend doing it if you decide to go here, as it is a really nice memory of the trip. They are also great fun to watch!!

I can share some purikura’s here, two seconds..

New way of blogging

Hi, today I have acquired a new way of blogging:) This is an easy way
of blogging from my phone and it will hopefully lead to more posts
coming from me!!

I at least hope so.

In waiting for my next post I'll give you a nice picture:) ...

Radiohead in Concert

On wednesday I went to see Radiohead in Osaka. After class was over I went down to the dorm and got ready to leave before dashing of towards the busstop with the bus that would take me to Hoshigaoka station. After leaving the bus I went down the stairs leading to te subway. Of course at this point there are bound to be two old ladies blocking the stairs down, walking at slow speed because, oohf the left lady has had this hurt in her leg since last saturday 10 years ago and she can’t for the life of her

remember why. Well anyway. After a painful stair-walk and entering the subway at high speed almost not catching the ticket coming out, I am finally at peace amongst a club of salarymen talking about what happened at work. I sat.

Finally at Nagoya station I manage to screw a bit up. I have never taken the shinkansen or any similar trains before. Or rather I had never experienced putting two tickets at the same time inte the ticke machine… Anyway I got through. And miraculously ended up walking back an forth looking for the right shinkansen entrance, ignoring all the big obvious signs saying “Shinkansen ➡”yeah yeah. I did actually find out in good time for the train though.

The shinkansen platform is very easy navigating and you feel really cool standing there for the first time. Once the train rolls in to the platform, a fierce looking long and slender train, you instantly feel that “yeah! I am going high-speed.”. And that’s exactly what you do as well. You enter the train which is actually more roomy than what you first thought. Once sitting down on the train you feel really comfortable and you have got nice space for legs and luggage. Almost like taking a first-class airplane. 

The train starts to accelerate out of the station and continues well out of the station as well. You can really feel the acceleration in the train and notice the gradual increase in speed just by watching out the window.

Now I thought I had some time to do my homework as travelling 170 kilometres would take some time. But I was wrong. It took 40 minutes, through which I sat playing with my iphone, an amusing instrument, before we reached Kyoto and had a brief 1 min stop. And by that i mean 1 min. The train accelerated again and I could soon hear that we were arriving at Shin-Osaka. I hurried to take on my shoes and see if I had lost some values on the train, said goodbye to the girl I had sat beside, she was going to Kobe, and got of the train, which immediately started off again. Well in Shin-Osaka I had to find the special rapid service i would take to Osaka. Easier said than done. Well I found out that almost all local trains, even the subway stops by Osaka. Anyway I boarded the rapid service it took 5 min. and I reached Osaka. From there I had a hassle finding my way to Asashiobashi, because of transfers.

In Asashiobashi I knew my way. As I had familiarized with it on google maps. At first I thought “Hm, is it supposed to be a Radiohead concert here?!” I could not see any people around but as I came closer to the gym, I could see that a whole mass of people had gathered. 

I took a tour around the waiting area to find out what it looked like, then I went to the closest convenience store, a 7Eleven, to buy myself some food. Upon coming back to the waiting area I could see that a lot more people had gathered up in the queues. I sat down in front of all the queues to have my lunch. And had a nice view of everyone from the bottom of the stairs. After finishing my lunch I started wandering up and down the queues to see if there were someone I knew there whom I could sneak in there. For I actually did know some people who where going but I didn't have their phone number unfortunately. About one hour before the concert I stalled myself at a stand close to the queue A selling CD's. My ticket said Block A so I reckoned it was the right queue. I stood there for some time pretending to wait for someone. The reason why I snuck in the queue was because by the time I had gotten back for the "convi" there were already 1 000 people queued up in that queue. I did all the right things when sneaking into a queue and nobody seemed to take care or notice. Only a pair of girls discovered. But it seemed they were too immensely taken by my looks to even take notice of what I did.

I had bought myself a pack of Pocky's that I was supposed to 

eat while waiting for the concert to start, but however unfortunately I had to throw them as they were not allowed in the hall. I got into the hall  as one of the first people. And to my great surprise I saw that the ones with block A tickets had front row stands. I got myself a nice spot, put my bag down and started waiting.

The hall filled slowly up with people. People passed by me and I don't think I even have numbers for how many stupid people that managed to park in the security walkway. No matter how many times the security said that they had to move. This was also the case for two girls who found out that they wanted to stand close to where I was. And managed to stop in the walkway. And when they were ordered away from there they immediately took place in front of me instead. For what reason I don't know..

Anyway. The concert started after a while.

Electronica had been warming up for the concert and it didn't come as a shock that the warm-up band was a Hip hop/Electronica duo from Germany called ModeSelektor. The reason for them warming up was simply because they are one of Thom Yorke's favourite bands. I have nothing to say to his taste however as the duo was quite good.

They played for a good 40 mins. and managed to get the crowd quite warm.

After some time to rig the Radiohead's scene and make sure everything was OK, it was time for the main act:

Radiohead opened the concert with some electronic background music while entering the scene and started immediately playing the opening song of their new album; 15 Step from In Rainbows.

The song switch the crowd on immediately and everybody started dancing, including Thom Yorke who seemed well more prepared than the audience.

Now it is hard to explain how the concert went on, but I can say as much as the setlist was a real good one. I'll post a link with it further down the page. And fortunately but at the same time unfortunately it was a quite a special setlist as it contained lot's of Radioheads more unheard songs. It sometimes took the Audience a while to recognize the intro of the song. But once they did they knew the song in and out.

Radiohead did two encores the first one being a really good one. I really liked the end of the first encore which ended with all the band members leaving the stage one and one after having played "Everything in its Right Place" and keeping the music alive. 

The concert was an amazing one. And I truly recommend people watching them live as they in my opinion are more of a live band than studio band. And especially Thom Yorke seems to like stage.

I will definitely start listening to more radiohead after this concert. It is a really good band. Although it may take you some time to get accustomed to the music.

When it comes to my travelling back to Nagoya. I ended up walking up and down Umeda and Yodobashi in Osaka looking for a Manga Cafe. After finding one I spent 5 hours sleeping in a chair at the cost of 2 000 Yen.

I woke up at 5 the following day and got my way to Shin-Osaka and took the 6 o'clock shinkansen back to Nagoya, arriving 7 am in Nagoya and 7.40 at my dorm. The time at which I usually get up in the morning. And I went to school as normal the day after.

Tired but feeling really good!

じゃ、それでけっこう。またこんどね。おやすみなさい。

Links:

Setlist

My favourite song at the concert bad sound quality but:..

Everything in its Right Place 

Kyudo's Progress

Not many posts ago and I know yes I haven’t posted much lately. That is because a lot has happened since last time.

I am now a member of the Kyudo club and I have already done two official training sessions with them. Although still not ready to fire an arrow I have made a lot of progress and beginning from next week if I do well I may start on some hay-balls on close range.

I have also bought a full kyudo outfit that means; Do-gi, hakama, obi, keshi, and tabis. Altogether for a whopping 25 000 yen… (find the conversion tool, cause I ain’t gonna do it anymore…)

Today I wore the whole outfit and I liked it. People said I looked like Alghren (from the Last Samurai). Pictures will come when I take them. 

I am really looking forward to next week’s training:)

Iphone

Finally I have bought an Iphone. I do not regret it at all… Yet.. Just kidding. I paid in advance and bought it for 70 000 Yen which is something like 3500kr(). And for the next 2 years I will be reimbursed with 1900 yen which means I will be finally pay 22000 Yen for the phone, whichis app. 1100 kr. Included I also have to pay a subscription but I won’t mention the cost of that..

The phone is with me everywhere and I manage to get much use out of it. As it also functions as an electronic dictionary. I reckon not many people know what an electronic dictionary is as I think it is only popular in Japan. The dictionaries are quite similar to a paper one. But it is made of plastic and instead of turning pages to find a word you write the letters and it searches automatically. Pretty neat huh.

The Iphone can also have NES emulators and stuff as well and of course you can buy a whole lot of programs from the apple store. I really like it. 

I know I basically didn’t need a new phone as I already had brought with me one. But I soon found out that the phone I had brought would never live for more than 11 hours in standby and that it is hard to use mail with it. A feature very important in Japan as SMS is almost nonexistent here.

I will now perhaps be more available with mail as I now have it ready by my side all the time.

Kyudo

A lot of things has been happening this week and luckily, I have got some time to write them down as well. First off I am in dire need of some real bread and a red onion. As both things seems to be impossible to find here. With that said I can move on to a more interesting thing. 

Although I wasn’t able to take any pictures today.  Zannen dakedo.. 

I have started Kyudo.

Finally my hunger for martial arts will be fed. And how wonderfully hard it is:)

(For you people who don’t know what Kyudo is, look it up. It is filed under Japanese archery.)

I am really looking forward to the next practice. Although I didn’t get to shoot for real today, I got help with the elementary stuff which, yeah yeah, I know to well from other arts. But, and that’s a big one. When it comes to the art of archery, the real art of drawing the bow. The forms and basics are not as easy. I learned how to draw the bow and release and practiced that for three hours. Gradually getting better. But this is not easy. I hope next time I will get the chance to try for real but for now I need to practice the form. And I would not say that it is done in 1,2,3.

I think I am going to stick with Kyudo for a while and try Aikido at a later stage. and perhaps join the Kendo club at the other campus. 

I so can’t wait til I get my Hakama and Gi. And my own bow:)

I am so happy:D

Oh… Tomorrow we have our first big test as a summary of what we have been doing these first three weeks. hm.. Kantan desuka.. Soukamoshiremasen...

Gake no Ue no Ponyo

Today I went seeing Studio Ghibli’s and Hayao Miyazaki’s new masterwork, Gaki no Ue no Ponyo or Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea. Although my Japanese is poor I actually understood  the whole text in the movie with the exception of some words. The movie was amazing and to this date one of Hayao Miyazaki’s better movies. The movie is loosely based upon H.C. Andersens “The Little Mermaid”. You can see the relationship with the novel but the movie is far off from being a screen adaption. Every background in the movie is painted entirely with colorsticks something which gives it a really nice appearance.

Throughout the movie you will also meet many of the figures from Hayao Miyazaki’s universe. When the movie comes to your country you’d have nothing to do but run to the cinema and watch it!!

Ponyo trailer

O-Matsuri

About two weeks ago I was at a Matsuri (festival). In downtown Nagoya, Sakae, The festival is one of the most popular ones in Nagoya and also one of the festivals Nagoya is known for. 

The festival is known as Do-matsuri. It is a celebration with traditional dancing. From every corner in Japan schools come to compete about having the best dance. In the streets there are parades and on a scene in the Sakae area the competition is held. The plus about this years festival was that it was a 10th year anniversary, the downside was that I when I was down to watch it, it was raining as hell. The rain was quite irritating although it didn’t destroy my experience. I had an altogether good time with my classmates at the festival. I even managed to buy an expensive crepe, 500 yen.

The dancers were really skilled and the parades where a lot of fun. This was my second festival since I’ve been here. And I am most certainly going to visit more soon.

A normal day?

I wonder, have I finally settled?!. It has been two days now. I have almost done nothing. I am not in need of doing anything so I am just wandering around randomly. 

There are a lot of things I should do. Lots I haven’t done. But still I don’t feel like doing any.

That’s part of why I am writing now. In spite of having anything better to do.

Oh well I guess I am just tired. I’ll sleep it off, there’s school tomorrow and I need to get my  inkan finished, seal. Soon I will be spending a lot of money on transport, phone and so on. By the end of this week I will probably have spent about a 2000 $. That’s a lot… I think I need to take a month of where I neither eat nor travel..

Help...

Homework...

I am sorry I have not written as much as I would like on my blog. And you probably think that the excuse would be homework, why else the title. But it isn't only shukudai which has kept me from writing. Actually the annoying fact that I have to drag my whole computer rig to the library down the hallway and re-rig it before I take it down and back again, all that just to get an internet connection, has kept me from being able to post things too often.  I would be more inspired to write with wi-fi...

Anyway the reason for this post isn't excusing myself. I want to show you what I actually do in my spare time, except for watching anime, going to the store and being with friends. My homerwork actually takes me up til three hours each day. And I will show you why. Watch this; (The music was not intended).

That was 15 pages of handwritten Japanese. Or what is called half a week of homework. I have to notebooks which I alternate between each day. One for homework monday, deliver homework on tuesday and do homework for wednesday in the other book. Together they make up 29 pages of written Japanese... No wonder I have much to do. And I am only attending the first level of Japanese. What we call basics. and this was my first week of homework.. Fun!!

Out clubbing

We had planned actually going out the day before, but people at the dorm wanted to go the day after instead. John was

 also available and we decided to go together. 

Earlier that day we had been at the welcome party for

 the foreign students, it felt more like a display of foreign students for all the “international com. students”. Anyway it was enjoyable and we played, Bingo, not kidding. After the welcome party a larger part of my fellow students went shopping, I played table tennis with a japanese boy and girl.

Later on the evening while I was getting dressed up, John came as agreed. We finished dressing up and went to the kitchen to steam some nikumans to eat. What I found out then was that everyone had backed out and that nobody were going out tonight. I then went down to ask Jo' what was happening, she knew that people weren't going because everyone was tired from shopping. Jo on the other hand was also sorry about people not going out and came with us. 

After taking the subway to downtown Sakae we went to St. James Gate, an irish pub at where John's girlfriend works at. I was supposed to meet her for the first time and I had to thank for the gift I had gotten from her. A frog-purse or a purse-frog. It's

 called Naruto no saifu. Or in other languages, Naruto's wallet.

After visiting St. James Gate and drinking some extremely cheap beers, 300 yen per beer, thanks to John having a half th

e price discount at the pub, we went do

wn the street walking where our feet would take us. Although eventually we managed to end up at the place we had planned to go. Club JB and Rush.

There was a 2500 yen entrance fee and drinking coupons cost a thousand yen, two drinks for 1000 yen. The club had, name

ly Club JB, had a live band playing as a warm-up for the night. And at the entrance we got a copy of the session CD. The club was quite crowdy but manageable. We went up to buy some drinks and sat down at a table close to the bar. 

Upon finishing our drinks we left for the dance

 floor and it is here my memories of that night starts fades into shimmering lights.. No

t from alcohol though. (*)

Haircut

Today I cut my hair:) I did it at a Biyouin, (beauty saloon), called Details.bis. There were mainly men working there, which is a really good thing. Men are in my opinion often better than women at cutting hair. Anyway the man who cut me was a young guy with a really unhealthy look and long hair. Longer than my hair, before I cut it. He spoke just a little english. And the whole time me and Josefina had been standing outside the biyouin waiting for Asuka, the one who had booked the hairdresser, he was staring at me. (Man that was a long and hard sentence). 

Anyway I wanted a Visual Kei haircut. And thus he did make one as well as style it:) It came out something like this. 

Or rather the weather destroyed most of the styling on my way back home. I will upload a better picture of it styled once I find the time to style it:) 

My first day of school

Today was my first day of school. I had two classes today. Thanks to some missing information. I and two others managed to come too early to school. What a waste of time. One hour of missed sleep. The good part though was that I got some time to order some concert tickets for the PS Company's 10th Anniversary. That means if I am a bit lucky I am going to see both THE GazettE, Miyavi, and Alice Nine live at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo the 3rd of January 2009!! Man I can't wait...

Anyway. First class was okay. A lot better than I expected actually and A lot more relaxed than I had ever imagined. This is nothing like attending high school. We started weirdly enough with learning adjectives and prepositions. I took this as more of a review of what I already have learned. We even got homework. For thursday we are supposed to write a whole lot of ajectives.

Now excuse me I'll have to eat I'll continue this later..

A picture

Hm well I decided to add this picture as well.

It is the university at where I will spend the next 10 months of my life.

My time here

Many days have passed since I found myself sitting on a train running towards Nagoya-shi. Without any ideas of what lie ahead of me.

I have been living in I-House now for about a week. I have bought most of the things I need and have finally got to settle before school starts. I have been on many orientations regarding the school and the place I am going to live. And it is soon time for me to pay my first room-rent.

Thinking back on the days that has passed I have experienced a lot. I have been sightseeing Nagoya with John Fredrik and Yuki, I have biked around the district I live in, in search for supermarkets and electric stores. I have been downtown visiting clubs and bars. I have walked back to my dorm countless times from the subway station and even managed to accommodate to the Japanese life, if just a little.

My life here seems finally to be starting. Even though memories of home still swirls around in my head, I don't feel homesick.

I maybe tell some time of what I have experienced in these days prior to school start. But for now I'll leave it be. I am hungry and I intend to make me some food. 

Tomorrow I start school.

-Filip 

The first day

Right now I am in Japan.

I am sitting at a library with a japanese friend of me. The library is in I-House. A dorm in which I am going to live for, the next ten months.

I will start this blog by telling how I got here in the first place.

The primary idea, and still continued, was to study Japanese language in Japan for a year.

To visit Japan was something I had wanted to do for many years. I decided that I was going to do it after high school.

After a heavy load of paperwork and searching I was accepted into a school in Nagoya, Japan. Or more correctly Nagakute, Aichi, Japan.

John decided also to go to Japan but unfortunately he was not accepted into the same school as me.

Our original travelling date was the 25th of July. We had to change the date later because of my visa application taking some time to process. This however meant a better opportunity to save up money for the trip.

Our travelling date was in the end the 20th of August. On the 19th of August we went to Oslo to spend the night there as our departure was from Gardermoen airport OSL. We spent the evening out on town with two other friends and slept over at my grandmothers apartment. That night I had a hard time sleeping.

The next morning we were picked up by my mother at 10 am. She drove us to the airport where we took our goodbyes and I and John left for our flight. 

We landed in Helsinki to change flights after about two hours from our departure in Oslo which was 1 pm. Our flight for Nagoya was due 5 pm, local time. After some beers and a tax-free we boarded a large plane.

We spent 10 hours on that plane watching movies and trying to sleep. 

Upon arriving at the airport our first problem came. While I neatly went through the passport control, John did not. We had both written the name and phone number of the Japanese friend we were going to meet on the passport control ticket, Yuki. Since we did not have any place to stay for the first night the control officer said that we should write the name of our friend instead. 

Now wether this worked for me or not, I don’t know, or rather I don’t think so. Because I came through registered at Aichi Shukutoku University, as did John in the end. The control officers had called Yuki and after a long time of waiting in anxiety, I had taken the time to fetch our luggage and find

 John’s return ticket, John was let through the passport control, registered as a student at Aichi Shukutoku. If this does affect his travel on later point in history I don’t know, but now it seemed just fine.

The next thing was meeting with Yuki. He was standing at the arrival section waiting for us. I was walking just behind John and as I came in to the arrival section John had gone. Not for long though, I saw him standing beside a guy I barely knew the face of. It was Yuki. The weird thing was that it felt so normal. We had had almost no travelling nerves during our whole flight. And now that we had arrived it all felt kind of like we had just travelled a short distance to meet a casual friend.

We met with Yuki and started our travel around the large airport. And by large I actually mean it. If you have visited normal airports they usually have some hotel and a taxfree and some stores in the terminal. But this one-terminal airport actually has a whole shopping town, and even an Onsen.

John and I went right for the Onsen. We parked our luggage at a nice luggage deposit. And went to the Onsen to take a long awaited bath.

Now if there is one thing one must try out when visiting Japan then it is an Onsen. I later plan on visiting one with real spring water but until then I’ll stay with this memory. There is nothing like a bath in an Onsen. The water is very hot. There are several different pools of water to choose from and some showers to shower off dirt before entering and clean yourself after bathing. These showers also hold shampoo and soap. It’s hard to explain why Onsen are so nice, I think it is the feeling of cleanliness and freedom when entering the bath.

Anyway after the Onsen, John, me and Yuki went to have something to eat. John was of course really hyped up on eating Ramen, so we found a Ramen-ya, a Ramen shop, and ate a pretty good Ramen. Even though later I have tasted much better ones.

While eating Yuki, who was very sorry for not being able to have us over to sleep at his place, had found a hotel in Nagoya which had 4000￥ for one night per person. Roughly 200NOK or 40$. Me and John accepted the offer. And so after eating we left the airport with approximately 50 kilos of luggage and one hour of travel. We took some trains and subways. And at last we arrived at the place where we were supposed to sleep for the night. The hotel was a neat little one with tenants only speaking Japanese. Luckily with had Yuki there to do the translation. We settled down in small room with a double bed. I quickly understood why the room was so cheap on short notice. It reeked o

f tobacco. A horrible smell with which it was impossible to get rid of.

After taking a short rest at the hotel. We took a walk to find an electric store selling cable output converters. As I later found out from B to C and C to A. That is how I operate this mac now. If it is safe, I don’t know.

After a short walk we ended up in a newly built but still old Shinto shrine. These are called “Jingu”. And so this was Atsuta Jingu. We wandered around the shrine for a while taking in it’s beautiful nature and sights. John most certainly has many pictures of this as he had a professional camera with him solely for that purpose.

The shrine is more like a small green-spot, very tranquil and comfortable to walk around. 

After having visited the shrine we slowly went on towards the large electronics store. There were many high streets and by-streets to walk before we got close to it and after some 30 minutes of walking, or at least what seemed like it thanks to the incredible heat the air posed, we could see Yuki’s university where he was going to study later this year for a third year bachelor grade. Nagoya Gakuin Daigaku. And just behind his University lie the electronics store. The store which by anything 

I have seen earlier of electronic shops was huge.

And again no one spoke english. I was looking for an Iphone to support me through my stay in Japan and John was looking for the converter. We found the converter. And a pharmacy that sold Calorie Mate. Regarding my Iphone I had to wait until I had a bank account, a Japanese one.

After having visited the electric store we were all hungry and wanted to go to eat. We went to a convenience store and bought us some snacks. we were now almost in the center of Nagoya. But we decided to go to a mall to get some real food and more for the morning after. 

We went to Jusco if I remember correctly. It is a large shopping center with all kinds of stores. We went up and down and ended up at a supermarket. We bought some light food for the next morning. And afterwards we walked back to the hotel, which showed up to be only half an hour away by foot. At the hotel we parted with Yuki and went in to get some sleep. After this day we were completely burned-out.

This is only a preface to the blog I am writing and it will not be truly complete before long after this travel is over. I am also going to experience with different styles of writing to see which best suits me. There might be some time until my second submission. But I will try my best. Ganbaru.

The day after tomorrow I will start school. Tomorrow I will try to start on my next submission but it depends. I must also admit that I am a bit lazy and I am in the middle of reading

 the whole Naruto manga which may take at least 6 more hours. Please stay with me. I'll also add some pictures although not many. Check Johns blog for our pictures. I'll add a link once it comes around.

- Filip