Day 15 in Japan: Even more Toilets

I’m sorry for the lack of information yesterday ( I received complains), but I’m more and more tired everyday. Last night I had mosquito terror, but I killed the beast this morning *evil laughter*

But back to yesterday. I had planned to meet Sarah at a nearby coin laundry so we could go manga shopping again (on saturday we get twice the amount of stamps)…but somehow she didn’t turn up. I was afraid I had mistaken the time and so I looked at my map and tried to find her Yamasa accomodation. In the end (when I was about to give up) I found the house and even the correct appartment due to a certain frog umbrella ^_~

Together we bought a bunch of mangas and went of course again to our beloved 100 Yen store „Daiso“. I don’t think there’s much more to tell.

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With Anna a little bit sick today I was on the road with Sarah again. For the first time we used the toilets there…so, yeah, another entry about toilets ^^ I like all the service appliances around. For example there are toilets with child seats, so the Mommy’s can have a relaxed restroom experience and the baby does not crawl around.

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The icon of the „spray“ button is lovely, isn’t? ^^ And my new favourite to the right: „Powerful Doedorizer“! XD

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This is a look into the handicap stall. We didn’t dare to go into it but there were even more buttons!

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Near the toilets there are lockers for the complete shopping cart, not only a small handbag and coat. Great!

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Today we were brave enough to try on some skirts. (you have to be brave to go shopping for clothes here, at least with my size and butt ^_~) First I was irritated about the changing room. There’s no stool or chair like in Germany for your clothes but a basket and the wooden thing on the left side is a dispenser for face covers so the clothes won’t be spoiled by make-up.

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Though I found a cute skirt I didn’t buy it. Perhaps in some weeks when my prediction comes true and I have lost some weight. Instead I bought some more of the crystal cube  pens and a very kawaii Disney memo…what do you call this? It’s for memorizing vocabulary.

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Now I’d like to introduce you to my new friend Natchan ^^ I tried to resist him for two weeks, but now I had to buy a bottle. Who could resist such a charming guy?

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We met at the supermarket and on the spot he decided to move in with me. His hobbies are being cute and staring out of the window. Isn’t he adorable? I love my new Natchan!

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Another Postcard left Japan, this time to Germany. Who of you might be the lucky one?

Alles Liebe,



Day 14 in Japan: Shokojo Seira / 小公女セイラ

By accident I watched a new J-Drama this evening while I was eating my dinner. It’s called Shokojo Seira and based on the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It catched my eye because the story takes place at a Boarding School. Everthing was really cheesy and exaggerated, the actors not that good, but still I watched it till the end and plan to watch the next episode on Saturday. My Japanese is good enough to follow and understand about half of what is spoken.

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What I like the most about Asian dramas is that you are always provided with a relationship chart ^^ For German Daily Sopas that wouldn’t be possible…after some weeks everybody slept with everybody elso, so… ^^

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Image Source: Drama Wiki

Alles Liebe,



Day 13 in Japan: B.B.Q. & Creepy Sweets

Dear readers, it’s Friday Night and one week of school is already over. We’ve done three and a half lessons, that’s so quick and still it doesn’t feel too fast. My Japanese improves with every day and at least rudimental conversation becomes easier. It’s a new hobby to ask people in the supermarket or at the post office for some help concernign different matters. I might scare them, but for me it’s great.

For lunch I’ve tried a new bento (I was too tired in the morning to make my own) and lion-hearted I chose the cheap one with the fish…you know, seafood isn’t my favourite kind of dish. The classmate I had met at the shop told me that the deep-fried stuff might be potatoes and sweet-potatoes…it was not. When my German girls at the table saw what I had bought, they were all like „There might be fish/seafood inside“…this sentence hunts me over here…and it’s true: In Japan there might be fish in anything!
I cannot exactly tell what all of this was…but the yellow thing in the middle was calamary and it tasted good…it’s only that I shouln’t have had a look at what it looked like beneath the tempura…calamary do have suckers, you know!? Creepy!

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Today after school I slept for some time (I cannot admit it’s been almost two hours) and then met Anna and Sarah to go for some shopping in Wing Town before we left of to the „New Students B.B.Q.“ at the student’s bar „Zig Zag“. With Helloween ahead there are funny costumes in every shop like Care Bear overalls or Pikachu caps.

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At a car park I took this picture, secretly, of course. I didn’t intend to annoy the hardcore biker who’s the driver of this… (haha, compare the size to the bike next to it ^^)

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At the B.B.Q. there were less people than expected…nobody seemed to know or be interested. No matter what, it was a fun event.

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At around ten we left and went to the post office (there ARE plenty of people to hand in their stuff at this time) and to JUSCO to satisfy our late night Fanta and chocolate cravings. Here are two funny pictures (at least for me, I don’t know these things from Germany) with a back and…what’s that…a shaver for the sole of the foot? b. assured me it’s anatomically impossible to have hair at that spot, so it must be for horny skin instead…but if you only take a quick look…XD

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Ans I suppose those are …what? Perhaps Q-Tips…?

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But as I said we went there for chocolate and in between all the delicious cookies and sweets I found THIS! Creepy, creepy, creepy! It’s dried octopus or something and looks like an alien from „Independence Day“!!!

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However one of the best things today was that two Japanese young women suddenly spoke to us and asked if we could meet to hang out together for some English/Japanese practice, girls chat and to simply have fun. I’ve received an email by one of them just some minutes ago. I wasn’t sure wether I’d be able to make Japanese friends, now it was that easy!

Alles Liebe,



Day 12 in Japan: High Tech Toilet & Fanta *censored*

I feel better again and so I was looking forward to this day. Lessons were as much fun as the days before, I don’t know how they do it, but every teacher has so many games and stuff prepared, there’s no chance to get bored…not a second.

After the headache yesterday I try to drink more, so at lunchbreak I brought myself to buy that scary Fanta Grape ( I don’t like grapes)…I opened the can and it smelled like…fruit condoms (or like a Dixi Toilet for all of you who do pretend they do not exactly know what fruit condoms smell like). OH MY GOD! The others sniffed and approved what I had just said. Ick!!! Never again.

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After school we were all squeezed into a small bus and carted to the City Hall to aply for our Alien Registration Cards.

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You might think we are at the airport here, but it is the City Hall. Awesome, ne?

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There I had to go to the toilet and LOOK: It’s one of the high tech ones. I screamed when I opened the door and saw it (a bit embarrassing, I know).

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So many buttons…I only used the one for the flushing sound and it was so loud *lol*

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I had planned to take a picture of „Volkswagen Okazaki“ for days…loks very German, doesn’t it?

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And it’s a pity you cannot see this properly…next to the street is a really old and rampaged caravan that was turned into a travel agency XD

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For those of you who missed pictures about my cute buys…it seems as there is more cute food with faces on my desk than ever before XD And a new sponge in form of a chocolate roll cake. Damn, I love being in Japan!

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Alles Liebe,



Day 11 in Japan: A little bit sick

My plan was not to become sick while I’m in Japan…well it’s day #11 and i woke up with a really bad headache. Not the migraine type of headache but the „I’m getting sick“ one. Of course despite the fact I felt half dead I went to school and lessons were just as much funa s the days before. Today we had to write down what our best day ever looked like and we were allowed to make something up. So you can imagine our stories involved a lot of money and girls finding diamond rings by accident on the beach or receiving them by their boyfriends ^^ In the end we had to decide who’s day had been the best.

One hour after school I had a 20 minutes meeting with my class teacher about what I did before Japan, what goals I want to reach while I’m here and what i want to do after Japan.

On my way home i took some photos with the „sunset“-setting and I like the colors. This is the „Info gallery“ where we can buy books, rent bikes and electronic devides and so on. It’s an old and small Japanese buliding.

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The car park and surrounding buildings.

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That’s the school itself ^^

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On the way I discovered something that might be a shrine.

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Or is it not?

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And of course another cute sign that says something like „take the poo back to your home“ XD

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With my head ache I slept the entire afternoon and tried to drink a lot (I havn’t the last days). unbelievable, but it helped. Hopefully tomorrow I will be fully recovered!!! We’re taking the bus (adventure!!!) to the City Hall to get our Alien Registration Cards and want to explore another shopping center afterwards! Hooray!

Besides for the first time I made some meat for dinner…umami! God, that light soy sauce by Kikkoman is incredible!

Alles Liebe,



Day 10 in Japan: Tokubaibi

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Today nothing special or very intersting happened, besides that I’m very tired because I stay up too long every night to do these blog posts. So today: bed!

We went to Jusco today because Tuesday is tokubaibi, which means it’s special sale day again and I was able to buy apples…well, only two. But some fresh fruits, hooray.

No new pictures either, my camera gets a rest after the shock yesterday. Tomorrow we will go shopping to Wing Town, so expect a longer entry then ^^

Alles Liebe,