こんにちは！！
So as the entry says, I have now been in Japan for 76 days. I can't believe that time passes by SO fast. I really love being here, more than I ever though I would, I'm really surprised by how much it is. The thing is, I don't really want to leave again. Of course I miss my family and friends A LOT and I do miss my little cute Denmark, but I just love it here. SO much. Time passes by really fast, this was about 3 months, but it felt like no more than a couple of weeks - so the next 8 months might pass by in the glimpse of an eye, which I really don't hope they do. I'm having a lot of fun, even when I'm just sitting around at home or taking my one hour trip back and forth between school and the house, all because I feel so at home here. So all that is just great, really.
Today we're going to a hot spring in the mountains, we'll be walking in a tulip garden and we'll be watching some fireworks - I look forward to that! I wish I've had the money to by a LCR camera before today, because catching the fireworks with such a camera could be amazing! But oh well, I guess that has to wait a little longer.
I'm also keeping up with my Japanese blog, which is a LOT shorter entries and in pretty bad Japanese, but if any of you out there studies Japanese and want to read something easy that might be wrong, but good kanji training, you can read it here - the link will open in a new window;
My Japanese Blog I will also use my Twitter a lot more when I buy the free WiFi thing, that I talk about down in the long part - I tweet in both Japanese and English, so if anyone should be interested;
My TwitterWell, now back to the interesting stuff.
I haven't really gone into details about my everyday life including school and I thought, you might actually be wondering what I do - it's a really long description with some small histories of things that have happened, but really - it might be boring, so don't read it if you're in a hurry haha.
So first, here's my schedule (please ignore the fact that my keyboard was in Danish, so that it puts the red line underneath the words - too lazy to removi it haha);
So everyday I wake up at 06:45 and takes on deodorant, my uniform, brushes my teeth and packs my bag, which doesn't take more than some minutes. After that I go downstairs and eat a banana for breakfast, yes I only eat a banana every morning - but that is actually more than I did in Denmark. The my host father gives me the bento which either is rice, salmon, mushrooms, some salad and like that. After they found out I love salmon, I get to eat it everyday - so that is really nice, but I do kind of miss smoked salmon, I know they have it here, I just haven't eaten it since the day I left Denmark, but oh well. If it's not the box with this in it, it's an onigiri which is a riceball with some seaweed around and something inside, I love it with salmon inside of course and I just do love onigiri really much. After he've handed me the bento or the onigiri's, I'm of to school. The bus is about a five minute walk from the house down a big hill, which the house is on. I always go down there too early, so that I see the bus before mine drive by, all because I found out there's free WiFi - desperate, I know haha, but I'm used to always have 3G everywhere, but I found out you can buy a card that gives you free WiFi/3G everywhere!! So I'm going to buy that in this month. Well, doing that thing with the bus every morning still only gives my five minutes, because the bus comes every five minutes during rush hour. I take the bus 20, but I am at the bus stop 16 - right afte I've seen the first bus pass by. The bus ride is about 10minutes. It's from the bus stop to Sumikawa station, which is where I take my first train. I'm always surrounded by people and I kind of end up standing in the middle of a bunch of High School boys while waiting on the train, the fun thing is, that it isn't always the same group. The find me very interesting, but not interesting enough to say anything to me, unfortuneately - Japanese people are shy. The train ride goes from Sumikawa to Odori, which is in kind of the center of Sapporo, at least it's the place you can get anywhere from - Odori, Susukino and Sapporo are the most central places I know and love. So it takes maybe 20minutes to get there and the train just get more and more crowded from each stop - because everybody is going of at Odori to change trains. Somedays you're lucky though and the train isn't really that bad, but even when there is places to sit, I don't usually do it if I'm taking the train alone - I don't mind standing. That reminds me of something quite fun slash embarrassing that happened to me some days ago, Sayaka and I was going to Susukino to meet up with the others and eat at this nice restaurant - yes, we eat out A LOT - but in the train, when I was about to sit down next to Sayaka, the train started moving and before I knew it, I was sitting on top a man. It was so embarrassing, but he took it well - I apologized a thousand times, but he just smiled and said it was fine - Thank God! Anyway, I get of at Odori everyday and walk about 2-3 minutes to the next train, which will take me from Odori to Maruyama Koen. Some mornings in this train, I see this guy who is REALLY good looking, I mean he is just exactly my type! He is not always there, because we don't really always get the same train, but when he is I'm almost dying. He goes of at Maruyama Koen as well, because we both have to take buses to our schools from there. So when he's there I just look at his reflection in the mirror - I know, I'm kind of a creepy person, but I can't help it - and when we go out we just go to the buses - it's a walk that takes about 5-6 minutes - it can take longer if you go slow of course, but Japanese people really do walk fast! That guy and I have never talked, we've had eyecontact two times and that's it - we never walk by each other sides etc. I just look at him, but then yesterday right? We walked next to each other ALL the way from the train to the bus - in my speed, which is slower than the Japanese people - because I'm obiviously not in a hurry. So we walked there side by side and I felt like we were the only persons in the world - yea I know - it sounds a little too exaggerated. The whole time I clunched a piece of paper in my hand with my name and e-mail on (you don't SMS in Japan, you e-mail), but when I finally decided to give it to him it was too late, we was at the bus place and everybody from his and my school where there - so we just went to each of our buses. After this I couldn't stop shaking for about 10-15 minutes - which was SO weird. I mean, a guy must REALLY be good looking if he makes you shake just by walking besides you, right? That just says something about how much he is my type. Oh well, but I go up to the bus, usually alone, everyday and then wait about 5 minutes for the bus to come. The bus ride is from Maruyama Koen to the school - not exactly in front of the school, but I'll tell that after. In the bus I tie my hair up - because it's a rule at my school, that you should have you hair tied up and I don't want to tie it up all the way from home, so I do it there. Then I listen to music, e-mail with Michelle or my Japanese friends and thinks about a lot of stuff. When I get of the bus at the bus stop, I have to walk up a hill and afterwards a mountain to get to my school - I'm not exaggerating - I really do walk up a mountain on daily basis - my leg's are twice as big as they where before, only because of sheer muscles. It's a little creepy, but oh well. Then I get to school where I have to change shoes in the Entrance Hall - you wear indoor shoes at the school at all times. After changing shoes I have to walk 6 flights of stairs, so you can imagine that my leg muscles was KILLING me the first weeks. When I come into the class I say Hi to my friends, put my bag on my desk and put my Japanese phone in a yellow bag - here you have to give your mobile at the start of the day and get it back at the end, the good thing is that I also have my iPhone, so I never give that one, which many students doesn't. Then I use all my lessons to study Japanese, besides OC - which is English Debate, the whole lesson is in English and is teached by a South African girl, Sarah. She is super sweet! English Writing is teached by British Ivan and is also in sheer English - so I'm also following that class. It's super nice. The normal English class is in Japanese the most of the time, so I study Japanese in that one as well. After school I take the same route home, not much happens on my way back - sometimes I go off at Odori with some friends and shop, but I mostly go straight back to home. When I get home I change to pyjama, makes tea and relax with a book in the massage chair or something. So that is really super nice. Then the family comes home some time later and we eat dinner together at home or at a restaurant, after dinner I take a bath as the first one and then I sit on the computer a little and then I go to sleep.
So this is kind of what I do everyday, with a lot of unessecary details, but it's pretty nice, I do like it a lot - even though it must sound super boring haha.
So that is all for now, I hope you are all well, wherever in the world you are!
Take care!!
