Schlagwort: Japan

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,



Day 15 in Japan: Even more Toilets

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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

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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

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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*

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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,