Hong kong and Paris

No, not traveling, merely the new nail polishes I bought.
I'm starting to believe I am the only one buying nail polishes around here, because the display seems untouched every time I go there, haha.
But that's nice too, I don't have to be afraid of my favourite shades selling out!

School is taking up most of my time lately, but thankfully it'll be over in may.

Gratuation (卒業！）

So, on the 9th I graduated from ISI Tokyo.
It felt awesome! But of course kind of sad since I've been going there from time to time(don't really wanna say daily, haha) during the last 18 months.

Directly after the graduation ceremony a bunch of us went out drinking, and the next morning straight from the party to school where I took the graduation test(missed it on monday) and after that I slept until today. Yeah.

中級ＩＩＩ－3

Happy bout this photo since three of my favorite teachers are on it,
Ikeda Sensei, Yamasaki Sensei and Oki Sensei!
(Oki sensei have been my homeroom teacher since I first came to Japan)
And a random old lady! (In brown, with short hair)

ISI Festa

Today, instead of ordinary school, we had the school's annual Speech Contest.
And this year, opposed to previous years, they had done it into a super long "festa".
6 hours!! Lots of speeches, and after that the new thing, performances!
Students got to perform with their different talents, so there were some chinese dancing, chinese koto, nepalese dancing, guitarplaying, aido, kpop dance routine (to Girls Generation) and.. a... techno/trance.. dj....yeah.. I don't even..
And they had also booked an actual band, called AUN who plays classic japanese instruments, check them out~

I admit it, I was sleeping through most of it..

One of the chinese dancers

Shamisen overload!

Atleast, we have tomorrow off!

Rain and disappointments

FujiQ was a disaster. We went there in spite of rain, and the reward was that everything was closed.
Ya, really. The haunted hospital, the teacups & The Merry-Go-Round was all that was open(apart from "Go and look at cards!Wooh!" kinda things). Soo. Yes.
Also the piggy tights managed to escape during the night, and I was unable to find them this morning.. Gonna take a shopping day or something soon, so I'll be able to post about them then!

Bought a lipconcealer from Canmake the other day, and I can't decide if I love it or hate it.
Pale lips kinda gives me a bratty-vibe, since the brats(or Fjortisar) in Sweden luvz the palelip.

So, do I look like a douche or is it passable?

On a positive note, I found a supercheap nailsalon the other day that I'm indenting to try out in the next two weeks! Around 4000yen for gels! I really just want simple ones anyway, so I think it's great. It'd be awesome having superlong superdeco'd nails but.. housework.. Hoow?

Study Power!!

One of the things I've been the most angry at myself over, is the fact that I never study.
I never take the time. During this year, I've spent about 10 minutes all togheter, studying outside of school. (How I got this far is a complete mystery)

But! Today, me and Malin went to Doutor to study kanji, for an hour!
And when we got home, we kept studying for three hours more!
So all in all, I studied kanji for 4 hours and my hand hurts so bad, haha.

Pics or it didn't happen.

I'm so proud overmyself for this, and actually got adrenaline rushes from it, hahaha.

Woooh school shopping!

One of the things I love the most in the whole world is stationary!
I have boxes and boxes and boxes filled with pens, notebooks and erasers and all other things stationary at my mothers house. In Japan , I'm trying to restrain myself since I don't have so much space.

But today was time for new stationary shopping! I've been wanting to get a new notebook wich I could decorate myself, and also a pencil case... And if you want easy, rather cheap and simple things to decorate, where do you go? MUJI, of course! :D

Brown binder + lined paper = new notebook!
And transparent plastic pencil case
All for the whopping price of 798yen!

I don't know what to do with the binder yet though, I'm going to Loft tomorrow to check out stickers. Seriously, if you're visiting japan and love stickers/stationary, make sure to visit both Loft and Tokyu Hands! They both have amazing stuff.

Serious Business-mode

(My hair is icky, but seriously, it's 30degrees and humid.
You get out of the shower and you feel like butter within 5 seconds)

Transformed into serious business. Hair in a knot and glasses!

In other news, finally done with this times tests. Had essay and conversation yesterday, and today I had JLPT3 Listening, Reading, kanji, etc. Feeling kind of good about it!

Aaaannnd, thursday and friday are OFF! Yeah!


Summer Sales are going strong, but I have no money to spend there..
Hopefully I'll be able to go to Kouenji and perhaps spend some money there, haha.

Dream within a dream

So, my dream for a plenty years have been to move to Japan. Live here, feeling the groove.
When that dream was fulfilled, I quickly realized that I needed another dream within my dream to be able to stay here, since I needed something to do, something to work for.
I could just take a shitty job somewhere and be able to stay, but that feels kinda pointless, no?

But today it came to me! I want to go to University! It's something I've never actually been thinking of doing before, just maybe for the grades, but not felt passionate about, until today.
Found out there's a campus/uni called Hachiouji, about an hour away from Tokyo, and.. well, it was just perfect. My dream(apart from being a robot-scientist) is to work with design, and Hachiouji just have like.. 98329482 different types of design fields to choose from.
I'll be working my ass off from now on to be able to go there.

I mean. Just look at it.

Nice

Hectic days. Martin's father and brother came for a visit, so we ran around doing tourist-y things for a week.
We even went on a bustour! That included a rivercruise, it was sweet.

Also, school started and apart from some new people in the class nothing much changed, still have the same mentor (Oki-sensei), wich is swee-eet.

Supposed to go hanami yesterday but the weather and coward japanese people decided that it was too cold, so we experienced the japanese version of a house party instead.

Currently in quite a daze, been drinkin on two school nights in a row, have no money and desperately want a cancan-hat!
Hoping on Martin to solve it, haha.


Here, a picture of Tokyo Tower with some nice movement:

First day of spring term!

So, today school started again after a three week break!
Felt nice being back, and see Josephine for the first time in almost a month!
Some people had gone to other classes, and there were some new faces, but basically we were the same people.
Feels a bit empty without Osan, one of the chinese guys, very nice guy, who spoke very good english and japanese.

Also, went to Harajuku, no buys though, except for some drugstore needs, deo and stuff.
Snuck around Laforet, looked into Nile Perch.. God I love that store. I want everything! I'll get a necklace some day though, since they are kinda cheap~ For being nile perch.


My extensions finally arrived, ordered some from a swedish store, since I haven't found anything light enough here in Japan~



In order to spice things up, pics from when me, Ylva and Malin (and Martin) went out the other day

Me and Malin, I'm looking deliciously shiny.

Mogisan and Masumi, bartenders of Current

Pictures are from Ylva, and only two because on most of them Ylva is in, and she didn't want them published, haha

Shinjuku I went to.

So, yesterday was our schools christmas parties!
I just went to mine to get attendance, and to lol at my favorite teacher Oki-Sensei, who was wearing a felt-hat complete with black afro. I love that man.

Quickly got to Shin-Okubo school instead, we're Martin is going, to attend theirs.
We were supposed to sing swedish christmassongs, but, no.
Christmasparty was made of epic fail btw.

So me, Martin and Ylva went to Shinjuku! Getting some last christmaspresents bought, and stuff!
Eating mosburger and... purikura!

Yes baby, yes!

Seriously creepy machine,
ALIEN EYES OF DOOM.
Me and Ylva, rocking it out.
Everyone I hang out with have dark clothing-styles!
Makes for interesting Puri, atleast!

Today, it's the day before christmas, so Ima gonna throw some dirty stuff in the washing machine, get myself ready and run for Ikebukuro, to do some of the LAST christmasshopping!
And if Martin wakes up, I'll meet up with him and buy a christmas tree! Yay!

Procrastinator!

Haven't updated here in a while.

Lot of stuff going on, and next week we have a supertest in school,

that decides if we get to move up a level or have to redo the one we've done now..

To make up for it, small photopost!

The path into a tempel in Shinjuku.

Nice and all, much yellow.

Okisensei(left) & Roberto(right)

Last week was Roberto's last day..

Roberto really made school alot of fun,

and everyone was really sad that he was leaving.

He had a wicked awesome goodbye-gift to Okisensei, though!

During these 3 months we've all been joking alot about

Robertos love for Kabukicho, and Umeshu,

so as a goodbye-gift, he gave Okisensei Umeshu!

Okibrand Umeshu!

He had photoshopped a picture of Okisensei from the schooltrip,

and photoshopped in Santossan from the schoolbooks.

Ah, Roberto will be deeply missed.

The swedes(including me) at my school decided to take over the

Tree decorating, since the Japanese staff proved to be FAIL.

They tried to put the star on first!

I do think we did a great job with it, though.

Job..

I want a joob..
I have my permit for a part-time job, but.. the rules!

"Pre-College students are not allowed to work at the places listed below.

Ex) dance clubs, night clubs, cafés/bars/restaurants with a brightness of 10-lux and under. A business related to gamble(mahjong, pachinko), billiard clubs, aesthetic salons, nude theaters, love hotels, adult goods shops, video/DVD rental shops, adult phone-chats, distribute flyers etc."

Really, what's the deal with Mahjong?

Haha, but no, I can understand most of them, but like. why not aesthetic salons? Isn't that hairsalons and stuff? And the light-limit? How do you do that? "I'd love to work here, but does your brightness exceed 10-lux?"


I love how our school ends the paper with rules with:
"We are sure your new life in Japan is so challenging and tough but you have your precious futures and dreams. School is always here to help and support you to reach your own goals in Japan"