In sickness and in health

こんばんは！！

Warning: Picture stream! Was too lazy to actually do a montage today.

So in the weekend I actually did something!!

Michelle, from Holland, and I went to Sapporo eki Friday. It was really nice to meet and talk with her again! We ran around for a while, stopped to eat some tempura, did some purikura and ran back and forth between Odori and Sapporo eki, it was much fun. Also these guys came and talked to us while we were waiting for our purikura to get printed, since I haven't talked to guys besides guides and stuff since I came, I was kind of shy and didn't have the courage to actually give this cute guy my number, dammit. I have to get myself together and be the usual me, but about three months with NO contact to boys.. It does something to you. There were also these creepy guys in Odori, but that kind of happens in trains as well.

We went for a four hour long drive to Takinoue at Saturday. It was SO beautiful, pink flowers all over the ground. So we had a lot of fun there and in the car ride as well. We ate sushi at my request when we returned home and that was so nice. God how I missed the nice and tasty sushi, that you just don't get anywhere else than Japan. We ate a lot and a nice dessert. There was this kind of creepy sushi guy who winked at me, so I choked on my tea and couldn't stop laughing for a loooong time. But oh well. It's quite funny.

Don't know why, but the pictures wouldn't change the way they are.

Sunday, Mikko and I went to Odori to go to this Visual Kei styled café. It was super nice, they played VK music, there where A LOT of VK magazines & posters and the waiter was really cute and talkative. Also, we were the only costumors the WHOLE time we where there, so we ate, drank, read the magazines and listened to the music. Super nice. After that we went to the h.NAOTO store and looked around for some time. There where a lot of cool stuff, but well.. It's soooo expencive. I'm going to buy Mikko something from there though, she helps me everyday with everything and she's just the best friend you could possibly imagine. Well, after that we went to do purikura, as always. It was nice and after that we went home.

Monday I was sick with something like a cold, only for two days though, so I'm up and good to go again, which is really nice. Even though I could use some weekend already haha.

Yesterday we looked at wedding pictures from my host family, they are so pretty - and we had some fun with masked!! Today in class, I got them to draw giraffes for me, damn they're good!!

All for now, take care!!

Not Much

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So, not much has really happened these last couple of days, so I don't have much to say. I got a package from Denmark which make me really happy, I missed a lot of those things so much! So now my Host Family have tasted rød grød med fløde & risengrød - which just is too hard to describe in English, but well.. It's VERY Danish.

Anyway, we also went to an ume-park and ate umeboshi ice cream which was really nice! That ice cream was probably the best I've ever gotten!!

Today Por-chan brought home a new kind of KitKat, raspberry. It was SO good I swear, I love it so much. The raspberry, the green tea, the normal - gosh I can't wait to taste other kinds, it's amazing haha.

So that is all for now, I should have some more to say after this weekend - I hope everyone is well!
Take care.

River Rafting

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Today our River Rafting pictures came - that was so nice! I've been looking forward to see them since we did the River Rafting - it feels like such a long time since we did it, even though it's only a couple of days. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the photos!

Take care!!

Hanami

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This morning was very beautiful, it looked like the perfect day for hanami, but unfortuneately the weather changed to the more grey & boring. It changed while we ate some extremely yummy italian food. When we finished eating though, we went to the sakura trees and took a lot of pictures - it was so nice, even though the weather was boring, we couldn't stay for long though, because it started raining. We just went home and enjoyed the day, ate some curry & so on. So today have been really quiet and nice, which was nice after a extremely nice, with something to do everyday, Golden Week. Today I've talked to some friends and my lovely little sister & mother, so that was really nice. Now to the pictures, and then I'm off to bed - there's school tomorrow afterall.

I also made a Japanese blog; http://ameblo.jp/erikarou/

Take care <3

Golden Week ★

おはよう！！

Golden week is almost finished, so I want to tell you a little about what I've been up to! Saturday April 29th, I was supposed to go to school, but I was lucky that AFS held an orientation the same day which kind of freed me from school! The AFS meeting was super nice, mostly because I got to talk to Michelle and the others again - I mean, you miss speaking with someone not Japanese at times. After the meeting Michelle, Emma, MuSeon and I went purikuraing' in Sapporo eki. It was super fun & we also ate some really tasty ice cream!

I only got 1 point in bowling......

The day after Por-chan, Otousan & I went ice skating - it was super fun! Even though it wasn't really Por-chans strong side. She is from Thailand afterall! I tried to teach her and at the end of the day she was actually getting a lot better. It was a lot of fun and there was these little Japanese girls who did figure skating and was absolutely amazing! After the ice skating we went to a game center and played tons of games! It was so fun & I swear our arms hurt the next they from the boxing game, haha.

 

 

After we've been in the game center for quite a while, we went to eat okonomiyaki - which both Por-chan and I loves way too much!

May 1st, Por-chan and I went to Odori to meet my LP. From Odori we walked to Sapporo eki and bought some small things before leaving with a train to a place between Sapporo & Otaru, where my LP lives. We ate some nice lunch and talked a lot - it was really nice. She even gave me a back & Por-chan some new shoes - which was really sweet of her!! She's a really nice person. Then we went to a shop called Shimamura. This shops has SO much cute clothes and it's just soooo cheap! Por-chan and I went around trying on all sorts of things & of course I ended up buying something - pictures will come later. At Sapporo eki I found out that there's a lot of bakers inspired by Denmark, they have all these 'danish' names, there was Café Danmark, The Little Mermaid (a bakery) & something called something with the word danish. I also know that there should be a bakery called Andersen or Anderson in honor of H. C. Andersen. My LPs' husband told me that Denmark is VERY famous in Japan. They LOVE lego, they even have lego clubs at their universities, he told me. In these clubs they will build these amazing and extremely big things out of lego. He also told me that Søren Kierkegaard was really famous - he himself, loved to read Søren Kierkegaard. It came as quite a surprise for me.

Then we went to Otaru where my LP paid for Por-chan and I so we could make this cute little glass balls! It was so much fun, he took a picture of us for the homepage - but it's not up yet. I made a little blue ball with some with in it & Por-chan made a white ball with pink dots. It was so much fun!! After making the balls, we went to the Otaru museum, where I beat some kind of wierd record in making fire haha - it was so much fun. After that, we went to the ocean and looked at the beautiful sunset & mountains. Then we went to an Italian restaurant and ate some super delicious food. There were so many dishes & a nice dessert.

May 2nd I went shopping with Misato, Miwa & Mikiko. We went purikuraing' as always, then we ate some delicious tempura & after that we ate some crepes & went to sing karaoke. It was all so much fun!! The day after this Otousan, Por-chan & I went canoeing. There was also this big graveyard we visited on our way, it was so nice!! The weather have been so good these days, so the sakura also started blooming - hanami must soon come to Hokkaido. I'm SO looking forward!

After all this we went on a two day trip to Niseko. In Niseko we went  river rafting, it was so much fun and the guide was just so good - even though he didn't speak English and I don't speak THAT much Japanese, he were able to make me understand it all. A shoutout for NAC's Ken-kun, Nac - Niseko Adventure Centre. Pictures from the River Rafting will be send to us by post, we should have them sometime next week. We slept at this pension, where we got some really nice food. On our way home, we stopped at this little cute leather shop and Sayaka-chan, Por-chan and I made these leather keychains - it was really nice & a good memory to have.

I had A LOT of videos I would like to put in this blog, but Blogger wouldn't let me upload them. Unfortuneately. Maybe I'll get them up somehow later on. I hope all of you have had a good week!! Mine was amazing!
Take care <3