Schlagwort: Japan

weekly retrospect 02

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In my universe I’m the sun

Somehow you can’t call this a ‚weekly‘ retrospect, but…well, let’s ignore that. I’m here to give a short update, because most people might wonder what I do all the time because I stopped blogging back in October January (I have difficulties uploading pictures and can’t send emails with attachments…it’s annoying ><*).

At the moment I live the perfect life…I’m still in Okazaki and spring has come to this part of Japan with a lot of cherry blossoms, green and all kinds of other beautiful flowers. I managed to get into C class this semester (with A being the highest level) and have a great class. Actually my class is so great that I’m looking forward to going to school everyday, just to meet them and have fun during class. Besides that we meet several times after school and go to the movies, eat together or make trips. When I’m not out with them I’m of course with my girls, just hanging out or biking around Okazaki to buy cute stuff or cheap manga. I see temples and shrines, kawaii stationary…okay, everything in Japan is kawaii, a lot of craziness…I spend time in stylish cafés, eat my food using chopsticks and speak Japanese. If I’m in the mood on the weekend I just stay at home and spend the entire day on my futon writing letters to my family.

You could say I’m happy :3

Activities or What’s going on in Okazaki?

Highlight of this week was without doubt this weekend. Friday after school I went to Mr. Donut to eat cookie crullers with my classmates, in the evening we watched Iron Man. On Saturday the same group of people and even some more went to Nishio together to see the tea fields (do I have to mention we got lost xD), eat BIG Brazilian pizza and spend the rest of the evening at a pond, looking at the stars and talking about a lot of dirty interesting stuff xD
Today I spent some quality time with my Japanese friend Y. at an adorable café near Minami Koen and managed to send home some printed matter packages with A. and S.

And now I sit here, listening to my iPod in front of the open window, look forward to tomorrow (26°C) and send some short messages to the ones I love and miss before I go to bed. Have I mentioned I’m happy? :3

Alles Liebe,



Day 100 in Japan: New term & Disney mobile

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Yesterday was my 100th day in Japan and start of the Yamasa winter term. Compared to the first day of the last semester everything was totally different. I was the new one, not able to say a simple sentence…vocabulary quiz? – What’s that?
I felt lost and lonely, at least a bit.

Yesterday I came to school and checked the lists for my name: Again F class (but one level up) and again Asada-sensei as home room teacher – nice. Together with Seki-san, Bera-san and Goiki-san – perfect. New classmates…one of them Olaf (I know from our trip to a Japanese garden in November and he lives close-by in one of the „villas“) – what a pleasent suprise. All in all I started with a good mood and very realxed into the new term.
Sure, some of the old classmates aren’t in the same class, again…but you see them in school or meet them at the supermarkt and smile at each other or shout a „ohaiyou gozaimasu“ from afar…I feel at home!

So waht to do, if you feel at home…and Sarah finally turned 20 and is now an adult over here? Go shopping, of course – and a very special shopping trip it was. Look what I’ve got here :3

Hm, what could it be? A very nice bag, indeed. But what about all that Mickey Mouse decoration???

Have a peek inside: A Minnie Mouse file folder (filled with disney stickers), a piece of paper and a mysterious black box.

What a nice box xD

And so the secret isn’t a secret anymore. It’s my new Disney mobile cell phone *evil laughter*

Let’s be honest. – some of you would kill for only the bag or the box!

As you can see it’s a golden DM004SH, which means it’s a Sharp.

And here it is :3

there a different options for the external display, but I prefer a simple clock. When I receive for example a message by Anna it starts to blink in red and green and shows Anna’s name on the display.

Here’s the camera with 3.2 MP (enough for me, as I’ve got my normal beloved digital camera)

And of course a little Mickey head on the battery cover.

Let’s come to the main menu. To be honest I don’t know so far what is possible, I’ve only tried some of the features. I can only tell you that Mickey comes walking onto the screen and does a lot of different things all the time xD

Everything’s in Disney design.

My favourite feature so far is the TV. You just press a button (accidentally like I did yesterday) and you have 10 channels to choose from. The first thing I ever watched on my cell was „Alf“ in Japanese *hahaha*

Here you can see one of those ridiculous and kitschy samurai daily soaps *lol* I love to say this: Yes, Japan is everything you imagine it to be!

Another cool feature is the don’t peek-functionality. I can choose from different patterns, colors and animations. Everybody who trys to take a look at the display from a weird angle only sees…rainbow colored diamonds…

…or purple mickey heads :3

Yeah, I love my new cell phone (keitai denwa or short keitai) and being here in Japan. Who wants to come, too?

Alles Liebe,



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,