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Day 21 + 22 in Japan: Karaoke Weekend

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Karaoke must be one of the best things in life after chocolate and sex, I guess. I could not await to try it out, so we gathered some people and went to a Karaoke bar called „Cote d’azur“ next to Seiyu. All in all it looks like a big brothel with all the windows barricaded and neon signs everywhere. The guy behind the counter emphasized that image and I didn’t feel too well when I signed up for a members card, but that’s just the way Karaoke is. We paid 1700 Yen per person for a time and softdrink flatrate which wasn’t expensive in my eyes, but it seems to bee a lot cheaper before 6 p.m. on weekdays.

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We had two microphones, two telephone book sized index books with like every song that was ever written and a computer/remote control thingie to add songs to the karaoke machine.

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As it is supposed to be, we were all more or less awful singers and had sooo much fun…I cannot put it into words. Just try to sing/rap Black Eyed Peas‘ songs yourself XD Well, William is MC William from now on, because he rocked it!

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Dan is awesome with Disney songs, and I just can’t hide the comments from you the following picture’s got on facebook XD

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Sarah: xD xD xD

William: Dan’s on fire

Dan: Now if only I could shoot lasers out of my eyes :(

Sarah: thanks to my ultra modern camera u’re eyes are red xD sorryyy, i just HAD to upload this ^^

Mina: So you are Superman but didn’t tell us? XD

Dan: Since when can superman shoot lasers out his eyes!?!? I must be Cyclops from XMen.

Sarah: o.O i thought u only watch disney movies??? hontou ni kowaaaaiiiiiii

Mina: I just imagine Cyclops singing „Be our guest…“

Dan: If Wolverine sang a song about playing with animals at the bottom of the ocean, I’m sure I would sing it too.

Mina: Oh, don’t say stuff like that…I imagine all this, you know!? XD

Dan: We were thinking the exact same thing, LOL.

And last but not least a picture of me singing enthusiastically and with an angel’s voice…of course!

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With this entry my daily reports end after three weeks without sleep because I stayed up every night to write the entries for my blog XD

Daily life takes over and there isn’t something to tell every day…well, perhaps there is, but I can’t keep this up. Still there’s much to come, but on a less regular basis. Please keep visiting my blog!

Alles Liebe,



Day 20 in Japan: Lazy Friday

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On Friday our ways started to part ^^ Sarah’s class is pretty cool and so the teacher organized a dodgeball game for after school. So Anna and I had to entertain ourselves and decided to check out the next department store: „Feel News“. It more or less consists of only a supermarket and a cheap clothes store, but in the basement there’s a small Serie 100 Yen store and a kid’s corner. I just had to take some pictures for you XD Do you know this guy? It’s Anpanman!

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He’s so big, you can actually sit inside (well, at least when you’re a kid).

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There are like gaming machines everywhere, but of course they are super cute!

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Ans most of you may know gashapon. There’s not only one automat here and there, but there are walls of them. Ther’s nothing you cannot find as a gashapon toy. Anime characters, catpaws that purr if you press them, and squeezable cookies.

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They day turned out a little bit boring. Sarah was hanging out with here class in the vening, too, so we two leftover girls rode our bikes to Aeon and strolled around. When we felt hungry we bought some (can’t read the kanji)-yaki. It’s like a fish-shaped pancake with different fillings. This one was a savory variation filled with ham, salad, mayonnaise and ginger. Of course I received a stampcard (you can guess, with little fish-stamps)…my wallet ist full of them >_<°

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With a whole week of sleep-shortage I was half-dead and finally took a very hot bath and went to bad. You see, japan – besides the fact it’s JAPAN – isn’t exciting every day XD

Alles Liebe,



Day 19 in Japan: Mr. Craftman & Bavarian Imports

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As times goes on daily life hits me and the tome to blog gets less. Of course afterwards I forget what happened and I can’t tell you as much about day19 as I had planned but I will do my very best. The story about that day starts in the evening…whith someone ringing the bell at my door. It’s not that I had any visitors in my apartment before (besides Anna and Sarah of course) so I was a little bit suprised. It was my neighbour to the left: Matthew from the UK!

The reason for his visit wasn’t a pleasent one – I was too loud the night before…well, embarrassing. But do you know what? It happened that we had a pretty good talk about…Japan…for about almost an hour XD That was pretty fun! He told me about import/healthy food shops near school and at the Aeon Mall…and as luck would have it, we planned to go there. It’s not like we wanted to go shopping again…one heel of my pumps was broken. If that is not a good reason to go there XD

Of course I checked out the import shop and we were in „in case of homesickness“-paradise: Ritter Sport, Haribo, Milka, Röstzwiebeln und Stanglmeier Weißwürste XDD

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We weren’t able too find the shoe repair, so I had another chance to use my new Japanese skills and ask politley for the way at the information. Afterwards we easily found „Mr. Craftman“ XD

I swear I brought the biggest shoes for a woman he had ever seen (those would be something like queen queen queen size in Japan^^) but he understood what I wanted (and that is more than I can say about some other occasions here).

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All three of us LittleRedRidingHood-Gang-members love cute stuff, but Sarah is especially fond of frogs, and Japan is like a frog pool!

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Over and out for today XD

Alles Liebe,



Day 18 in Japan: Little Natchan

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Hm, one Natchan is never enough so I bought a little one that is easier to carry (mochiyasui) for school. Can you see that little Natchan’s cuteness is even topped by the fact there’s a supercute Miffy phone strap attached? XD So this was my bento for school, rice, fish and edamame (green soy beens). I really love those. You slightly slit the paring and shoot the beans in your mouth (or at the person next to you, it depends…).

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I guess my blog entries will get more and more boring, because it’s the same every day: After school I slept and then we went shopping.  ^^ But this time we discovered a little shop in Wing Town where you can buy cute and sparkly stuff to decorate…everything? This is the cash desk:

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On our way home we discovered this totally cute „press me to cross the street“ button near the local school. And the traffic lights turn to green after only some seconds, it’s very pedestrian friendly *loves Japan*

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I NEED a bed…NOW! I’ve stayed awake due to black tea for days now…tired…bed…

Alles Liebe,



Day 17 in Japan: Lizzards & Purple Baths

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So just a brief summary for today. You already know I’m tired every morning (because I had slept in the afternoon I wasn’t able to sleep at night ^^°) and today was no exception. Together with Anna we rode our bikes to school (for the second time I crushed into the wall, I wonder what’s wrong with me *lol*) and met this prehistorical appearing miniature lizzard.

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Due to need for some coffeine we went to the schools automat and I simply wanted to buy a bottle of Coke…of course I didn’t have a 100 Yen coin (not even a 1000 Yen note, you can buy with them, too) so I asked Anna for one…nor did she have a coin, BUT a 1000 Yen note…we bought the coke and…the automat returned 900 Yen in 10 Yen coins!!! O.o The slot for the change was soon full and the coins piled up. now there were so many we werent able to push the little slide door to the change open…it worked finally with a little love and lots of violence. My wallet looked like it was pregnant with all the 10 Yen coins inside.

The day went by like no one ever did before in Germany at school or university, though today my selectives started and lessons ended at three thirty. Those of you following this blog for some weeks now know Tuesday is tokubaibi at Jusco so we went there for groceries shopping…and yes of course we got lost in all the kawaii shops and bought some cute stuff, too. But more about that tomorrow. I have bought meat…real meat. I have to stop eating carbohydrates from morning to evening, so meat, fish, eggs and even more meat ^_~

Every time we come to the Aeon Mall in the evening we laugh because at the bicycle parking lot the bike gang has parked its motor-bikes..and then we come and squeeze our rusty, old bikes in between.

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We stopped at the women’s restroom and I realized there’s this sign where you can see how big actually only that one restroom is!

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at Daiso i bought some rosemary batha dditive and didn’t realize it would also color the water…but cute, isn’t it?

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That’s it for today, take care!

Alles Liebe,



Day 16 in Japan: Doraemon & Nighttime Post Office Strolls

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It’s the start of a new week and I feel good. As you know there’s a vocabulary or grammar quiz every morning and while I always have little mistakes in the vocabulary ones I got full marks for the grammer one. I’m happy ^^

Like always time flew away and suddenly it was half past one and at least the end of my school day. I couldn’t await to get home and sleep. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I could sleep and sleep and sleep all the time (don’t tell me there are Tse-Tse flies in Japan). Quick-witted i had set an alarm at four o‘ clock so I would get up again before sun sets. My plan was to go to Daiso to buy lots of cute stuff for my first test package to my family but before I tried a new course on my bike. However I didn’t came across anything special besides a lifesize Doraemon ^^

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I played a bit with my camera and took several shots of the city at sunset:

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This medival appearing buliding is…

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…nothing else than one of the many wedding chapels. Japanese like it romantic, you know.

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Back at home I packed everything I had bought into a very nice pink checkered bubble wrap envelope and met with Anna and Sarah to bring our parcels and letters to the post office (that is open, I gladly repeat it, 24/7). We were served by very nice woman with plenty of patience and the will to send our stuff with stamps instead of printed labels…I don’t know HOW many stamps they put on my package to meet the price of 380 Yen…it must have been at least six or seven, even one with Mt. Fuji, I think ^^

I’m going to send much more postcards, letters and packages to all of you, but you also have to be patient with me ^^ Between school, sleeping, shopping, blogging and housework (in that particular order ^_~) there’s not that much time for writing.

Alles Liebe,