I'm still alive
Hi there, I know I haven't blogged in a few days but I haven't had the time! I'm sorry.. I've been devastated to hear about my cat dying (he got run over by a car outside our house.. it's so horrible) so I have been a little bit down the times I have had the time to think about anything but apartments and furnitures. The days here are stressy and the jetlag and the heat have made my stomach a bit worried so I feel a bit eh but I'm trying to enjoy Kyoto as much as I can! I will give a recap of the trip here later, I'm sitting at a manga café with internet access right now so I don't have unlimited time sadly.. I will pop in some pics and I hope everyone at home are doing fine, I miss you all!
This would be the view from our apartment's balcony to the left.. It's very pretty with the mountains all around here in Kyoto.
This is the river that runs through Kyoto and it's very close to our house. Just across the street and down a stair and you're on the river walk which is very beautiful!
These are the futons in me and Johanna's tatami room, if you pull the sliding doors to the side you're on the balcony! My futon is the blue one :D We went to IKEA today and I was glad to see that they had marabou there! But for some reason only with daim flavour.. Oh well, that one's tasty as well XD Being separated from my parents is definitely not all sunshine and flowers, I miss them so much I tear up when I think about them but I know this is when my independent life starts and I should try to move on as fast as possible but I don't want to! Mom, dad.. Jag älskar er jättemycket!
The start of a new chapter
I'm sorry I haven't written much these last few days, I've been too busy being with my friends and family. I think I've cried several litres of tears, I will miss my life in Sweden quite a lot.. Especially my family, my mom and dad.. It's gonna be hard to leave them today on the airport. I don't know when my next update will be since we wont have internet in our flat in th beginning.. But I hope it'll come to us quickly! So this is goodbye for a little while, see you in Japan!
I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything feels right
Världens underbaraste mamma köpte nya höstskor till mig, det blev dessa fina från ROOTS. Jag är fullkomligt kär i kängor med brunt läder och de här är ju helt perfekta till mig! De ä fodrade så jag kommer kunna använda dem under den kanske inte så brutala vintern i Japan. Allt eftersom dagaran kryper närmare så blir jag mer och mer hemmakär.. Men det är ju en känsla som måste komma fram, men jag känner ändå en lätt touch av ångest när jag inser att jag ska skiljas från mina fina föräldrar och syskon och vänner under mer eller mindre ett år.. Buhu. Men man måste vara stark och inse att det kommer kännas så nu men sedan kommer det vara superspännande och roligt så man inte hinner längta hem så mycket. Jag kan ju använda mig av skype trots allt!
KANELBULLAR (aka cinnamon buns)
Me and my mom baked cinnamon buns today, also known as the best pastry in the world.. I want to turn the smell of freshly baked cinnamon buns into a perfume, seriously it smells soo good! I enjoyed quite a few of these lovely fellas with a glass of cold milk, as it should be. I've also turned my passport over to the Japanese embassy in Sweden, which means I've applied for my visa.. It should be sent back to me next week and that means I'm all flippin' set for the move! Which happens in exactly one week and three days. Since I had to go to the Japanese embassy to fix the visa I had to fly down to Stockholm over the day with Dena&Johanna, it was fun but the shoes I wore were like half an inch too small for me so my toes hurt so bad I couldn't think about anything else..
Step one in the baking process (after you've given the dough a go around with the baking roller) is to put butter all over this nice square dough and then put sugar and cinnamon there..
Then you roll the square dough into a looong roll and you cut the roll into like 2-4 cm long pieces which you then put like this.. After that you brush them with egg and put decorative sugar on top and put them in the oven..
Taadaaa! After around 8 minutes in the oven they come out looking like this and smelling delicious! Mm.. I think I have to go downstairs and grab one now..
No damn money.
Today I went to the bank and got poor. I paid the school semester fee at 396,000 JPY. That hurt. I am now a poor little poor girl.. Oh well soon I'll get the money from the national board of student aid and I wont be as sad when I look at my savings. I've shopped some things I need for Japan.. Like tampons. I now have a carton with 56 tampons in it.. Economy pack FTW!
JPN
Places we're visiting in JPN. Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo, Okinawa, Hiroshima, Hokkaido.
Me and Johanna have booked our flight tickets to Stockholm so now all we need is that VISA and we're good to go. The only thing that's worrying me is the fact that the stock market is crashing like crazy and this just has to happen JUST when I need my money that are invested in stocks. I've finished working for the summer, had Johanna over, realized that living with Johanna will be amazing, realized in 5 weeks and 2 days I move to the other side of the world, said goodbye to my brother for over a year (I'm moving to Japan, he's just moved to Gothenburg). I'm starting to sense I've grown up, the growing pains are almost gone.
Ticket, check!
Today I purchased my ticket to Japan.. Monday the 26th of september 15:15 the plane leaves Swedish soil and I wont be going back for a looong time. It will take me 22 hours to reach Osaka, Japan and we go through Frankfurt - Shanghai - Osaka.. It's craycray!
One step closer
Yesterday I got some really great news, turned out that the national board of student aid was way faster with evaluating my application than I thought they would be (well in my defence it said 3-4 weeks on their webpage and it took them 2 days) and I got a mail saying that they had accepted my application!! Which means I get my loans and well sort of like a scholarship that every student gets from the goverment. So this means one problem is out of my way now! Only the visa left and then I'm good to freakin' go! We'll be purchasing our plane tickets next week too! Found some real cheap ones from Air China so.. Yeah! Things are moving forward!
Trust me I look happier than this but posy pics are not as fun as tardy ones! XD
