JANNCHAN DOEZ JAPAN

You would not believe your eyes, if..

2010-04-13T22:40:00.014+09:00

.. I updated my blog (!!). But believe it or not, I’m not dead.

(the song on everyones mind.)

A lot of stuff have happened. I’ve been to war against (guess who?) EF and won, I’ve started 2nd year of Senior High School (with new students in my class) after a MONTH of holiday, I’ve bought new shoes(…), and well, yeah.. Stuff.
I think this blog is going to be mostly pictures.. I’m actually quite(FUCKING) depressed(ANGRY) at the moment. See how I mentioned war against EF? Even though I won against their lies and shit, Cindi wasn’t quite as lucky.. She was sent home this Sunday. /happyface.

….. I hope you all realize that last part was sarcasm.

So yeah, pictures + comments = epic love?

This is FERN! She's the new exchange student in my school. She's 1st year Senior High School, and from Thailand. (so everything is not easy these days. ) So, HAPPY NEW YEAR ppl! (today is the new year in Thailand. )
My name written in ...thai? >w< (the thing in the middle is Ferns writing, and the thing below is me trying/failing at copying it.)

Well, these pictures weren't supposed to be here( since they're kinda new..), but I didn't want to drop them. Me, Wei, Sophie and Anna went to Ueno and to Ueno Zoo (..only my third time there :'D), and had a great time.
..LOTR fans; SARUMAN equals the Monkey Man. Hah-Hah-Hah. (Saru is the japanese word for monkey.... )
We also went to this one museum!

THIS is where the blog actually starts. The photo below is taken just at the beginning of the vacation. Me and anna decided to take a LONG walk in random directions from Harajuku.. I got a cold and lay in bed for a couple of days X'D

I SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON A VIVIENNE WESTWOOD WALLET. I love it.

mmmmmm, McDonalds and fries with mold : ))))

All of these had different (,what,)levels(??) of mold on them <3>

The other day me and my new(!!Oh, i forgot to tell you I have a new host family, didn't I?) host family looked at the Sakura (cherry blossoms).
Me winning the war against EF= me moving in with my prev Host Moms fathers in stead of to Takano's good friends house. (Takano: EF - final- boss. lolwhat?)

My (new) hostmom!

Me and Anna grieving over Cindi. ................Understandable since we're grieving.

Before:

Now:
...CUTCUT?

Also. SHOES IN HONOR OF CINDI.

Lately me and Sophie has been hanging out a lot. We're pretty awesome Purikura-partners. (most of the stuff we write on our purikuras r random crap though; don't take it seriously! just.. don't. )

..nothing is better than purikura-places where you can borrow outfits for free and do 'in-character' purikuras with them!

(CHECK OUT BIGBANG/2NE1 - LOLLIPOP GUYS. ah, nvm, I'll just put it in my blog! )

VICTORIA was in Tokyo!

We found Oslo (..the capital of Norway, IN CASE anyone doesn't know ... :'DDDDDD -and no, not suggesting that everyone in the world knows, god I would know they don't. Simply suggesting that most of the people who read my blog are Norwegian~)

karaoke. Mm, pretty picture.

AH, me and Sophie went to the Yearly Tokyo Anime Fair as well! We dressed up as Chopper and Pikachu only to find out that cosplayers weren't allowed (....what). That was kinda fail XD
..we did purikura in the outfits too, but I don't have them on my phone.

who gets it? ;P

The voicers of Ichigo + Ulquiorra from Bleach. + People. My friend at school told me it was 130 000 people there that day. Now THAT's something, yeah?

I've gotten to hang out more with WEI lately (the other Norwegian guy in Japan w EF)! Well, only three times, but that IS more than the one time I'd met him before March.
This day we wen't to the Anime Center on Yamanote Line (haha, i can't remember the name of the station right now..)

NORWEGIAN people hanging out.

Me and Yukiko! We went to the cinema, to karaoke and did purikura together! She's really cool! <3

Egoego.

Yeah, I'll update faster the next time. I promise. (lolwhat.)

I'm lovin' it

2010-02-27T00:07:00.010+09:00

Blogin’ !

Life is pretty good at the moment; its Friday (and no school tomorrow, for once) and I can stay up without putting my health on the line (something that’s been happening more and more lately). I’ve actually overslept 4 of 5 days this weekend, which is a record even for me. The weather feels like SUMMER (though if you ask a Japanese person they will tell you that “yeah it’s so hot! It’s like March, already!). Anyways, It's summer and I'm listening to YUI! (新垣結衣 )

(Because pocky is good, and Yui is awesome. Stick to fun! )
Also I’m reading my awesome Howl’s Moving Castle book (the original one- aka the one the Ghibli-movie is made after! :D ), and I love it!

[a lot of you asked to see the ‘hot-guys-purikura’, but unfortunately I don’t have it on my phone! Only some Puri-machines have infra-red and our pre-paid phones can’t get them from the internet. ]

It’s actually been forever since my last blog, again, but this time I haven’t really noticed it. The Valentines-weekend Cindi and Anna slept over at my place. We met at my station where we ate, took Purikura and went crazy(no seriously. Crazy.) at Donkey H; the most awesome, big, store that sells pretty much everything really cheap. We walked out with three huge bags of snacks, well prepared for Titanic and Twilight.
Titanic because we love it, Twilight because we needed something to laugh and make fun of afterwards. : ))
We fell asleep around 07.30 (well, me and Anna did; Cindi fell asleep in Titanic! Haha! She woke up and fell asleep a couple of times though. ) and got up at, what, 15.something, only to watch Edward Scissorhands and The Lion King(haha, mostly comparing Norwegian, Finish and English songs though. )
Looking like shit we walked to McDonalds(2 min from my house or something) and ate a little. We also managed to squeeze in some Purikura-taking before they really had to leave.
[All the pictures in this blog are actually from the sleepover- sorry about that ~ XD ]

I hung out with the finish girls last weekend as well, going crazy in karaoke. I don’t really have a lot to say about it in the blog, but we had an awesome time. (hahah! Cindi went crazy on Japanese- I have it on video. )

Thursday I went to Shinjuku with Truls after school. It wasn’t really planned, so my hair was amazingly flat, I didn’t have my fake school sweater (aka I was stuck in my always-very-pretty-and-gray one), and I had no make-up. Yeah, probably a good thing that I forgot(!!) to force him into taking Purikura with me.
It was pretty awesome talking some Norwegian again, though I kept saying weirdly formed sentences all the time. But then again- there’s a chance I always do that ^^’

This weekend is going to be a busy one (yet again filled with finish girls). Tomorrow I’m meeting Anna in Harajuku at 12.00. It’s a Saturday, aka it won’t be AS crowded as a Sunday, but it’s probably going to be pretty awful. (Harajuku is pretty crowded on all days, actually. Welcome to Tokyo, guys!) I want to buy some shoes with heels and some clothes.
We’re meeting Cindi at 16.00 (I think?) to eat before we meet Aki and his friends at 20.00(I think XD).
Aki and his friends; the hot guys from Anna’s birthday. ;P

On Sunday I’m going with Cindi to Chariots concert, near Ikebukuro. I don’t really know what it is, but they sound pretty cool! Cindi loves them, and Sunday is their last concert. I’m looking forward to it, as it will be my first (and only?) concert in Japan.

Well yeah, that’s all for now! –no wait! I have to brag about being best in school on the TOEIC test –and receiving my ..proof-thing in front of all the other student. I had to practice bowing and receiving it correctly, it was kind of funny. We were three students that received our… proof-things from the headmaster (the nun!), and I think it was kind of a big thing.
Maybe.

Also, Big Bangs song Number 1 is stuck in my head. Something I blame VICTORIA for! XD

BTW!! Anna is most likely comming to MOLDE, NORWAY in the summer vacation to visit me! YAY! :D (her father's first reply to me living in Molde was 'Isn't that where they have that Jazz- festival? Ask her, ask her!'. Her father is a finish man who doesn't even like Jazz. Fun! )

Just another day in Japan!

2010-02-07T22:14:00.011+09:00

Halfway through my latest blog, I realized it was shit, and with renewed spirit (caused by my host mother making my room insanely cute – I’ll tell you more about it later) I decided to write it over again. –hopefully with better result.
The thing is-nothing really special has happened since I wrote the last time. At least nothing worth writing about in my blog. Anyways; I’ll try my best to give you a somewhat better-than-the-previous-blogs blog. Does that even make any sense?

Anna (god, I have discovered that I love her- in a very un-lesbian way! HAHA!) turned 17 on the 23rd of January! Me and Cindi went to Shinjuku and celebrated it together with her. Cake, karaoke and Purikura – what way could be better to spend your 17th birthday? Well, she seemed pretty happy!
Just before we went home we also met these random, hot, guys at the station. They were looking at us (discretely? No, not really.), and we did the ‘poor-lost-girls-in-Tokyo’ and asked them if they knew where the closest Purikura-place was. One thing led to another – and they ended up taking Purikura together with us. Lots of fun!

I’ve visited the huge, 9(?) floors tall Animate in Ikebukuro too! Me and 大Sophie went there and fangirled (and fangirled some more) over all the awesome stuff they have. In the end we ended up buying expensive drawing pens and paper.
Afterwards we went and took Purikura in maid-outfits! God, I kind of love those Purikura-places where you can borrow outfits for free. The game center in Ikebukuro also has two full floors with only Purikura. Heaven!

Really though; I feel like I’ve been in Ikebukuro a thousand times the last couple of weeks! I might just know the place a little too well, if that’s possible. Okay, maybe not (I could never cease loving Ikebukuro~), but I sure as hell have been there a lot lately. (Oh, the ice cream at Milky Way is the best you’ll ever taste! ..Or, actually. The ice cream at the cheap karaoke-place was even better! Point: Japanese people make amazing ice cream. )

February started with a BANG! It actually snowed. In Tokyo! Let’s just say that me and Anna kind of went crazy (naturally!), and that it pretty much was Christmas all over again. (Truls wasn’t as exited – it was freezing, after all.) Going home the 1st of February was, to put it mildly, pretty awesome. Everyone’s been telling me that the chances for snow in Tokyo are pretty close to zero – but hah! They were wrong ~

I went out with Yukiko from school the other day too! We went to Harajuku and Shibuya, ate spaghetti, took Purikura, and went to karaoke! It was a lot of fun, she’s really nice!
..I’ve been going to karaoke a lot lately though. I mean; a lot, a lot. I think it might be what I’ll miss the most when I go home to Norway again. Perhaps after Purikura. ^^’

For those of you that don’t know it; there was another girl staying with my host family. Her name is Joanne (we’ll, she’s from Malaysia and I think it’s spelled differently, but that’s how it sounds, anyways.), she’s 23 years old and she goes to a language school in Shibuya. At least she did- she left for Kyoto(I think) this morning with her boyfriend, to stay with a new host family there for a while. So now I have her bed and the internet! Haha okay, I’ll miss her, but it doesn’t hurt to look at things from the bright side, right?

Anyways, when I came home today (After spending an awesome day with Anna) I found my room completely changed! I absolutely love how it is right now! My host mother cleaned out the closed with her things so that I could put my clothes and stuff in there, moved in the bed (so now I don’t have to sleep on the futon in the middle(!) of the room), and put things in a really cute way. My room is a lot more home now.

I really love this host family though! The last one was very nice too, but here I can actually talk too! My host brother, Shu-chan (Shutaro), is absolutely adorable! He’s only three years old, but he can already read the letters in Hiragana (one of the three written languages used in Japan) and play the violin! I haven’t actually heard him play, but I’m sure he’s really good! XD
My host mother, Kanna, is the kindest person ever! She’s always thinking about how things might be easier, and she’s given me so many suggestions for places I could go and stuff like that. My host father is also really cool! He’s dancing and singing for Shu-chan, and does his best to talk in English to me(haha)!
I really hope I get to stay here!

(Me, Shu-chan, Joanne, Joanne's BF.)

(Kanna, Shu-chan, me)

(harajuku bridge on a sunday! )

Hm, I guess this turned out to be kind of a long blog, but I think it might be just a little better then the last ones I’ve written? I hope so.
I know I’m not exactly the best on updates, but I’ll do my best to give out more than one blog each month(like January /cough) :’D
(it’s not like everyone at home are keeping their promises either! ) <- haha!

PURIKURA:

Long time no see! ~ XD

2010-01-20T20:07:00.012+09:00

Yeah, I don’t think it’s ever been this huge a gap between my updates, but I’m going to blame it on having to share internet in my new host family. *cough* I love them by the way!
It’s been quite a while since I wrote this (so it’s kind of old by now), but I thought I’d just get it out now, before it gets any longer. I want to write about my new family too, but I guess I’ll just do my best to update as soon as possible. Sorry for being late ~

The Bowling Gathering was pretty funny! Me, Truls, Wei, Milk and小Sophie played, and I didn’t get the worst score of everyone. Noway. Everyone except for小Sophie went to Karaoke for (I think) two hours after. (wo-oh-oh-oh can’t touch this~ )
New Years in Japan was pretty different from nyttårsaften(new years )in Norway. Since my family wasn’t doing anything special during the day, me and Truls went to Ikebukuro. We randomly decided to watch One Piece: Strong World in the cinema (it’s insanely popular in Japan), ate dinner at Subway, and I was allowed to stay out until 11.30(!). But if anime doesn’t make you vomit or something worse, I seriously think you should try and watch Strong World if you get the chance; I thought it was awesome. (and I wasn’t really a fan before I watched it).
At 00:00 I went to some temple with my host family and prayed. For the first time I saw my host father for longer than 10 minutes, and that was also kind of cool. The next morning we ate traditional Japanese New Years food, and I got 6000 yen in New Years-money. (apparently kind of popular in Japan).

January the 3rd I got to hang out with Cindi(!!) and her fiancée Niko. We went to Shinbuya and looked at clothes, went to Starbucks and .. well stuff like that. I took the both of them to Karaoke (they had never done it before! O: ), and I think Niko had more fun that he thought he would.
The 5th of January it was time to change my host family. I spend the entire day before packing (seriously. The entire day. ). EF sent a huuuge box with stuff in for me(for free), but it was still impossible to move the rest of the stuff by myself, so Takano-san came and helped me.
I really liked my old host family; they were very nice people.. But oh my god, I love the new ones as well! They kind of speak English, so I can have actual conversations with them!! I try my best to talk in Japanese, of course, but I’m not exactly able to speak fluently. And then it’s pretty good being able to say some things in English as well. The station is pretty huge as well, so I can actually do stuff without going too far away from home! :D Too bad I only get to stay here for two weeks ^^’
The Christmas and New Year Gathering(planned since early November) ended up being only me, Truls and大Sophie. But we had a lot of fun and hung out in Palette Town in Odaiba. We also watched 4th Kind in the cinema, because we thought it was a scary movie. It turned out to be very special alien-movie. Hmm. (watch out for Truls, guys, he have a thing for kidnapping people through the ceiling while singing banana phone! D: )
I managed to drop my soda thing on the floor before the movie started, skills. XD
On the 11th of January I went to the most awesome Amusement Park ever together with 大Sophie and 小Sophie! FujiQ Highland! Both me and小Sophie stayed over at 大Sophies house :D
They had a haunted hospital that was insaaanely scary! It was really big, and had 3 floors. Empty hallways, operating halls, locker-rooms, and much, much more. And (of course) real actors. If you think Japanese people are scary in The Ring, The Grudge, One missed call (and so on), try having bloody people following you through a large building, where you’re only allowed to have a flashlight for the first part. 小Sophie panicked, and we had to ask the last real actor-guy to help her out (as we didn’t know how far it was until we came to the next fast-exit, and she refused to go further. It was kind of cute though, as the actor stopped in the middle of his half dead-ish move(scary~) and transferred into this really cute nice guy. 助けて下さい！ (tasukete kudasai – Please save us/me.)
School is back in business; probably pretty healthy for my Japanese (cause I haven’t exactly been studying very much during the vacation. *cough*).

The pictures are in random order this time, sorry. I don’t have enough time to fix it, and I think I ought to just update this thing (before another month goes by. )
I’ll try to fix it next time though! :’D

Me and Anna found the most awesome purikura macine. Too bad it PMSed and only gave us the ugly purikuras. We watched Avatar, and made funny purikura. But, like I said, the purikura-thing only gave us the bad ones -.-

Amuuuusementpark!!! :D:D

Alien movie / christmas&newyears gathering ftw~

(eheheh engrish)

(okay, please don't take it seriously ^^')

MOVING.

Cindi and Niko!

New Years! :D

Bowling Gathering~

December ffs!

2009-12-28T00:50:00.018+09:00

Lazy people should not blog. At least people shouldn’t expect a lot of updates from lazy peoples blogs. SO hey, it’s not my fault if my blog bore you to death or something, right?

I was going to update my blog ages ago, but then I kind of just didn’t- and then I was going to make it up to you by making an awesome video with the different stuff that’s happened. But since the last time I used it Windows Media Player turned against me and decided to stop working.
- And that’s why I’m going to blog now, before I grow too old and all my joints stop working (which would make it hard, or impossible, for me to update). If it starts working again maybe I’ll edit it and put it in a later blog.
I’ll try to keep it as brief as possible though, since a lot of stuff have happened. (EDIT: it became kind of long, sorry. But really, a lot of it is pictures! Don’t die!)

My birthday (12.12) was pretty awesome. Some girls in my class bought me the most delicious cake I’ve ever tasted. We were like 11 people or something, attacking it with each our fork.
I also got lots of other presents from awesome, cute, sweet girls in my school<3.
After the regular school I had club activity, only we had a party for the seniors! In most schools in Japan people quit their clubs after the second year, in order to have more time for study the third year. I don’t think they have to, but since everyone does so, it kind of looks like it’s a rule. We ate lot’s of candy and some of the girls had made kind of a musical(it was really funny to watch).
When I got home I got another cake from my host family. I kind of died! <3>

December 13^th EF arranged a trip to Disneyland! And just cause I’m awesome, I won’t bitch about EF in my blog.
The EF returnies (C.K., Taku, Chihiro, Daisuke and Kiri), Satomi(EF boss), and me, Truls, Milk(I don’t remember her real name, but she’s really cute and pretty. And that’s her nickname.), Sophie, Elvira and Rodney joined. My favorites were the Pirates of the Caribbean(with scenes from the movies, and Jack Sparrow with Johnny Depp’s voice) and Nightmare Before Christmas. We also saw the Light Show- thing and the fireworks! :D

EF Christmas Party! Lol not that much to say about the party. C.K., Daisuke, me, Rodney, Anna and Truls went to eat after though. The picture is my drawing of CK's angry face and CK trying to do it xD
more disneyland! XD I fail at fixing the pictures in Blogspot.com.

The 20^th I went to the yearly December Jump Convention! Both awesome and kind of disappointing. Up sides; amazing games, stuff to buy, location, (insanely)many people, official, got to see original pages from some of my fav. mangas, got to cosplay(people thought I was extra cute because I was a foreigner with blue eyes), saw the voicers of Ichigo and Hisagi of Bleach perform!
Down sides; kind of cold, not many cosplayers(probably because it was the official thing, and normal people showed up too! XD), not _that much stuff to do, expensive, all in Japanese – kanji<3(got in the wrong line and had to wait for an extra hour XD), got a little boring.
Absolutely worth going to though!
(find one mistake in my cosplay. *cough* headband *cough* )

IKEA! Me and Anna travelled for, er, 2-3 hours(one way) on the 21th. It was absolutely worth it, as we went to IKEA! We were able to love Sweden again (after four months of having to explain people that Norway/Finland is the country next to Sweden before people actually understand it). I spent over 2500 yen on Swedish (and kind of Norwegian too! KIND OF!) candy. <3<3>

doing the L. Again - i messed up the pictures! D:

BACK to Ikea! XD

Christmas Eve: I ate dinner at McDonalds. I’d say that’s pretty fucked up! Me, Truls and Marie went to see some light-stuff in Ikebukero. It was kind of funny, but since every single Japanese in Tokyo went out to eat, it was 10 times as hard to find a decent place as in Norway on the 17^th of May. Anyways, I guess you could say that the Christmas spirit was buried twohundredandfourtysix feet under. At least!

Christmas: the 25^th of December is called Christmas in Japan. I ate pizza and (the oh-so-famous) Christmas cake together with my host mother and my host brother. I also got presents(!!), something I felt really bad about. When I asked my host mom some time ago, she told me they didn’t give each other presents, so I hadn’t bought anything for them. I got some (very famous) Japanese Childrens Fairytales-books from my host brother, a make-up bag-thing from my host mother, and a Halloween-bear from my host father. I gave them Sweedish candy though. They liked the Ballerina-cookies, the Daim and (kind of) the ginger bread, but you should have seen my host mothers expression when she tried eating Salt Sill. I haz it on video!

New hair:

Christmas. Lol my host mother thought the Salt Sill looked like one of those things that you have your chopsticks on. She also thought it looked like one of those things you hang on your wall.

Christmas Eve XD

In January I have to change my host family. Apparently my host father had a stroke last year, and have to do some operation every year in order to keep him healthy. But the last time he went to the doctor, he was told that there was another mistake; and that’s why I have to change. Most likely I’ll change around the 5^th of January, but I’m not 100% sure. I might change back to this host family later, but I don’t know if that’s very likely.
And don’t worry guys, I’m not dying! Actually, I think I might be the last person in Tokyo to change host family (as bad as it sounds, and is.). Most of my friends are already on their 3^rd- 6^th host-family by now. I hope I won’t get into that whole circle of ‘temporary- host family’ though, it would kind of suck. But as Anna said; it can be kind of positive to change too. You get to see a lot of different people and love in many different parts of Tokyo. Maybe my next family speak some English too? I really hope they, too, have internet though. (!!)

I cut my hair today btw. Me and Truls went to Shibuya, discovered we had nothing to do and randomly decided to cut our hair. Well, it wasn’t completely random, as we both kind of (really) needed it.
Tomorrow I’m meeting lots of people for bowling! To fail or to really fail, that’s the question~

Q: what do you like best? All images at the end of the text, or text and images mixed(pictures together with the belonging text)?
btw: /rage against the blogspot.com upload pictures- thing. I'll try to do better in the future! XD (No Keitai(cellphone) pictures in this blog, sorry! I guess there's enough pics as it is though! )

Spam, video, love

2009-12-16T15:27:00.010+09:00

Yeah, the blog is back in English after an actual request for it( i didn't see that happening. So thanks for actually reading my blog, even though you're not one of my closest friends / family. ) :'D

Thiiis..is not a real update, sorry! I'm going to blog about my (17th)birthday, the senpais(seniors) goodbye-party in my schoolclub, and DISNEYLAND! But the day of DL i managed to oversleep, and therefore I used Trulses camera the entire day (it's not like he takes a lot of pictures with it! -.- ). But I haven't got them yet, so you have to wait :]
I guess you could say this blog is kind of dedicated to my awesome Norwegian friends. I miss you all a lot. I want you to come here and live here together with me. <3>amazing birthday-video. I love her for it ( I love you for it, pus!).
I died of happiness. Everyone should watch it! (it's in Norwegian btw.)
..BTW! audhild: what does Oda say? I'm not able to hear it! XD
TAKK TIL ALLE SOM VAR MED I VIDEOEN. JEG ELSKER DERE<3

2: HOHOHO~ >_<>
My text have dissapeared two times now <3>
But yeah. Last year I had a lot of fun(and I like to think I was not the only one) making JibJab videos of me and my friends. Unfortunately the funniest ones, Elf Yourself, are gone forever. But since I had nothing better to do I made a new vinter-JibJab with the old heads from last year, that was already saved in my account-thing.
Not all of them were there anymore(maybe I made them before I made the account? i can't remember anymore), but the ones I actually had were funny enough! XD
At least I laughed (but I've been told I always do that, anyways). :]

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

Okay, the thing doesn't work. But if you still want to watch it, follow this link--> http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/JpQnaxGMPbpGddNY
Lol sorry for putting links in here ^^'

Also: sorry for editing this so many times. The text kept being insanely stupid (and same goes for the videos! XD )

Amanda og Shinya :D

2009-12-09T22:40:00.013+09:00

Nirgilis – Snow Kiss. Seriøst, jeg elsker stemmen hennes. Dere burde søke saken opp på youtube; eller så legger jeg den bare ut i bloggen! Tjoheei! Jeg tror jeg må lete etter CD av dem i diverse butikker. Yui er forresten også veldig awesome.

I helga var Amanda(Sverige) og Shinya(Tyskland) på besøk i Tokyo! :D De dro sammen med Shinyas vertsmor, og bodde hos sønnen hennes.
Amanda var en av dem jeg hang aller mest med på camp (sene kvelder med fangirling <3),>Kyūshū, av alle steder. Jeg kan ikke huske å ha snakket noe spesielt til Shinya i det hele tatt, men hun viste seg og være skikkelig kul hun også. Amanda er veldig anime/manga fangirl(bare shonen, tho), mens Shinya elsker Visual Kei (+++ ). Sorry, folk, jeg orker ikke forklare hva alt det betydde; dere får nesten bare google det!
Uansett, det ble en veldig lang helg. Jeg møtte på skolen på fredag, kun for å øve på prøve for meg selv på rom 12.
Jeg burde egentlig ha et eget innlegg om rom 12; jeg er blitt ganske glad i det. Uansett; veldig lite rom (men muligheter for å gjøre det steinvarmt/kaldt, alt ettersom hva man føler for) hvor man kan være for seg selv. Jeg endte opp med å sove de første tre timene, og så lese Harry Potter and The Deadly Hollows til Amanda sendte melding og sa de var i Shibuya. Jeg kunne dra fra skolen når jeg ville, så det var nice.

Til slutt (etter å ha møtt forskjellige folk på ”the fucking dog”, en gang for mye – også kalt Hachiko ) dro jeg, Amanda, Shinya, Sophie(lille – store Sophie kaller alle bare for Ooki-Sophie), Truls og Anna på karaoke! Seriøst. Den mest ekstreme karaoken jeg har vært med på i hele mitt liv. Truls og Anna sang ikke i det hele tatt (men betalte like fullt, sikkert, 180 kroner eller noe), mens jeg og Amanda tok helt av. Jeg aner ikke hvorfor, men det var bare sanger jeg hadde lyst å være med på, og da det altså var en egen hylle (type: hull inn i veggen) for å legge vesker og ting på, fant folk ut at den var ideell for å danse på mens man sang for full hals.
Sophie, Anna og jeg (alle med skoleuniform på) tok blant annet av med Lady Gagas ’Love Game’ og dansing; der vi så vidt fikk plass i Hylle saken over sofaen. (jeg og Amanda gjenoppdaget også High School Musikal, haha! )

Lørdag og søndag gikk på diverse(veldig mye) vandring og mengder bra(dårlig?) humor på Akihabara og Harajuku. Ooki-Sophie joinet oss begge disse dagene, og på Søndag kom Elvira og (!!!!) Cindi også <3>
Så spiste vi kebab.
OG; det glemte jeg nesten å si. Jeg, Ooki-Sophie og Shinya kjøpte oss hver vår Gothic Lolita kjole, mens Elvira kjøpte en julekjole! Haha, jeg antar det er en av de tingene man må gjøre når man først er i Japan et år! XD

Okay, jeg skal avslutte bloggen nå, siden folk tydeligvis ikke er så glad i at jeg skriver for lange blogger (-.-), noe som er vanskeligere enn man skulle tro.
Men tusen takk alle jeg har fått bursdags/julekort og gaver fra i posten! (det er vanskelig å ikke se på innholdsbeskrivelsen på fremsiden! XD)

Jeg har forresten fri fra skolen helt til den bursdagen min! ~ Og jeg og hostmoren min var å så 2012 i dag. Den var ikke direkte dårlig, men jeg tror ikke jeg kommer til å se den flere ganger, heller.

Ekstremt masse bilder. I fin og tilfeldig rekkefølge! ~ <3>
Øh, gammelt bilde fra da vi (Truls, jeg, Sophie, Jessica og Cindi) dro til fornøyelsespark. (Jeg husker ikke navnet ^^'). Jeg fikk det ikke før nå, så jeg fant ut at jeg måtte legge det ut. Jeg skal forresten Disneyland på søndag! :D Btw, liksom.

Jeg og Anna på det _kule/awesome karaoke-stedet!

For mange folk i en purikura-boks! XD

Beste Purikura-poses<3>

Lolita-antrekket mitt! XD Hva syns folk? :'D

Kebab, kebab ~

CINDI KOM <3>

haha, det var ikke så mye hjelp å få fra Truls.

Hanske/lue-saken var forresten SHinya sin. Tror jeg ^^'

Shinyaaaa, ooki-sophie og sophie!

HAHA! <3>

Automat med Hetalia Axis Power drikker! XD ikke spesielt gode, men det er uansett awesome.

Desember ~

2009-12-03T23:15:00.008+09:00

Oppdatering! Okay, jeg tror ikke jeg gidder å skrive på engelsk mer. Veldig lite vits, når det faktisk bare er norske folk som kommenterer! Does anyone mind?

Ellers.. Lenge siden sist jeg blogget, men strengt tatt er jeg vel ikke den enste som har gått langt over streken ’en blogg i uka’ avtalen vår satt.
Har ikke skjedd så mye siden sist, tror jeg. Jessica(venninnen min som var i en bilulykke) har dradd hjem til Canada igjen. Heldigvis får hun kanskje komme hjem igjen til slutten av januar, om helsa hennes er enig med meg og de andre utvekslingsstudentene.

Sist helg var jeg, Marie, Truls og Anna og så på Twilight- New Moon. Marie er japaner og (selvfølgelig) Edward-fan, Truls er uvitende (men lastet ned og så den første filmen dagen før), mens jeg møtte endelig et menneske med samme meninger som meg i Anna! (<3<3).
Jeg viste nok kanskje litt mer respekt enn henne under filmen da(hvor jeg mer enn en gang hørte latter på feil steder), men det skjedde en gang eller to at jeg ikke klarte å holde meg jeg heller.
Men det var veldig gøy! Problemet var bare at det ikke var da filmen prøvde å være underholdende! :’] (jeg sitter egentlig igjen og lurer på hvordan den greide å få en toer med dagbladet! ).

I dag slengte jeg og Yuni på oss reinsdyr-luer, mens Peterson-sensei hoppet inn i Julenisse drakta. Hurra; Jabechjapan.blogspot.com er nå offisiell moteblogg!
Vi sang julesanger og .. så på en film med Disney i bakgrunnen og random artister som sang julesanger!
Jeg døde på meg av julestemning den 1.desember da!
Ikke så mye forståelse for Japanerne på det punktet, er jeg redd. Men klassen min har en sånn søt julekalender, så jeg trodde kanskje de hadde litt peiling after all. Men så lurte de på hvorfor de ikke kunne finne noen datoer etter den 24. Her i Japan er altså 24. julaften, og 25. jul, og that's it. Ikke alle feirer, heller (hostfamilien min feirer ikke- men jeg har fått lov til å kjøpe et lite juletre, så skal hostmoren min betale meg tilbake! ).
The Julekalender er forresten lastet ned. <3

Hostmoren min har dessuten kjøpt The lord of the Rings-filmene! *happydance* ! Usikkert når man rekker å se på noe av det da, for (!! ) I MORGEN KOMMER AMANDA! ÅÅÅ jeg gleder meg<3 Amanda var en av de jeg hang mest med på campen, og hun er superkul. Vi hang oppe _alt for sent og fangirlet diverse ting når vi måtte opp seks neste morgen.
Eneste negative punktet er at jeg må av gårde i skoleuniform igjen -.-
Helga blir skinnsykt travel da, om jeg får det min vei.
Ut og møte henne fredag, lørdag, søndag og kanskje mandag. :’D

Jeg satser på å få kjøpt ferdig julegavene mine og. *kremt* OKAY, sorry folk i Norge. Noe sier meg at gavene kanskje kommer litt etter jul! D’: (men de kommer, altså! )

Har ikke så mye mer å si atm, oppdaterer mest for at jeg skal greie å komme meg i gang med blogging igjen. Er det noe dere har lyst til å høre om fra Japan, så kan jeg fortelle om det? :]

Masse bilder tjohei!

Har ikke nesten ikke bilder fra idag ^^'

Jeg vurderer å få jobb innen portrettfotografi. Okay, i det minste har jeg veldig lyst å kjøpe kameraet til Truls. O:

Utsikt med Fuji-san i bakgrunnen! Har jeg forresten nevt at jeg kan se ham fra rommet mitt på veldig klare dager?
Det var en stor stolpe med One Piece på. Jeg tror kanskje jeg kan tjene på å starte å være litt mer seriøs på bilder though. Jeg drar hjem med bare sære bilder! XD (omg nå kom CC- Why i bakgrunnen. *skifte sang* T_T )
Final Fantasyyyy! ~

Den triste snømannen :'D Kinoer i Japan er gjerne i bygninger med kjøpesenter, purikura, bowling og berg og dalbaner, forresten. (!!!)

AHAHAH!

LOOOL <3<3<3 *gasp*

Peace and Love ~~

2009-11-19T23:24:00.004+09:00

I’m bloggin’ ~
Short update though. I don’t want to die at school tomorrow.
As for the title; Love pretty much represents Muse and the kotatsu today! ~ (confused? Continue reading)

Okay, so I’m insanely happy at the moment. I’ve been running around school, hugging people for no(haha, right) reason today.
Yesterday me and Audhild got tickets for the MUSE concert on WEMBLEY STADIUM, London, the 11th of September 2010. I almost can’t believe it. They’ve said they’re going to make it even bigger then H.A.A.R.P. (!!)
Is that even possible?

Today my family moved out the sofa for no apparent reason. Though the mystery was solved when I came down for dinner and a KOTATSU was on the living room floor! I became even happier and died. It’s sooo hot and comfortable to have your legs under. Me, Ken and Michiko lay under it and watched random Japanese television. Hurray!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu

Also, lol, people have been asking a lot about the peace sign! Pretty hard to not notice that it’s used a lot here, if you look at the pictures in my blog, eh? But yeah, I’d almost go as far as to say that it’s not just popular, but more like culture!
Everyone does it. And when I say everyone, I really mean everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re in kinder garden, in high school, working or retired!
The first thing they do when a camera comes close(or when you see a camera at all) is striking the oh-so-original pose. <3 :]

hoho, it was used by certain people (only me? D:) in Norway as well! ~

At camp. First trip to Akihabara! Me, Amanda and Rei together with random Japanese Schoolgirls. The piece siiiign ~

AAANd~ Short update. But picture of my HOST BROTHER; Kentaro! (and it's still awesome when Michiko calls him Kenchan. Something she _Always does<3 )
GAH, ISN'T IT AWESOME? <3<3 coozy ~ luls.

Same old, same old

2009-11-13T22:53:00.008+09:00

As always a couple of hundred things have happened since the last time I wrote. Of course.

Last Saturday I met up with Sophie for what was supposed to be our girls-day out. Instead we went to the (apparently very famous) Waseda University festival. It was HUGE.
C.K. is actually a student there (C.K. is one of the EF-returnees. Aka he is done with his EF exchange. He’s actually from Hong Kong, I think, but he speaks fluently Japanese. –obviously, as he’s studying here for real!), so he knew his way around better than me, Sophie, Truls or Taku (another returnee, but this one is 18 years old and Japanese :3 ).
It was SO much fun. Sophie and I were hunting for hot Japanese boys, and we spotted quite a few (the white innocence- boys! *3* ). We got a guy (Sho) that sold waffles phone number. He was kind of hot, but not like the white innocence-boys! XD

After I got home, I got a message from Jessica where she told me she had been hit by a car. I’ve been worrying sick about her the last days, as she’s so injured that she has to stay in the hospital for three weeks. Two pieces of her spine is cracked, hip bone is fractures, broken leg, and something with the shoulder too. D:
EF won’t let us visit her, as we might cause her to move too much and screw up the healing process. (!!) But she’ll be completely fine again, as long as she gets enough rest <3

Sunday I met Mio and Lisa from school for the Shinjuku Bitter Sweets Buffet. Truls, Anna(/Ansku), Sophie and Bianka joined me. Jess was supposed to join to, but obviously she couldn’t make it. It was _SO delicious.
I ate, ate, and then I ate some more. Mostly chocolate. (lol, it became both late breakfast and early dinner. –I did eat a lemon bread later though <3>
When we’d finished dying (and going to heaven), we went to the coolest karaoke-place ever! You had to take of your shoes and sit on a low table with a big hole under for your legs. Also it had the original movie for Poker Face! XD
After that Mio and Lisa had to go home, but us exchangers went to Harajuku, and for the first time in my time here I actually shopped! (I’ve bought some small things before, but not like this. ) It felt awesome, and now I have at least one outfit that’s kind of japanese XD

Tomorrow my school has Mini Undo Ukai, or something like that. It’s a small sports festival, only that it’s not really sports. We play different games :D
I’m in the eat potato-thing though, mostly because it’s the only thing I’m able to do as I don’t speak very much Japanese (and I’m not able to read the kanji! ), else I would love to be in the cosplay-thing! :D (Something about running around and changing into different cosplays.) - I have to say though; It’s pretty obvious that you’re not in Norway when you’re requested to bring your Pikachu-costume to school because they don’t have enough cosplays for the games.

Looots of pictures ~~
Shinjuku Bitter Sweets Buffet Day:

Gotta love the purikura-places where you can borrow outfits for free <3>

New clothes, hurray! What do you think? XD

Waseda University Festival- day
Taku is suuuch a good singer! O:
The white innocence guys! XDDDD
.. A celerbrity! XD I've seen her on tv. :]
Truls, Taku and C.K.

Halloween and life in general

2009-11-07T02:05:00.008+09:00

The time is currently 01.37 a.m. and I’m realizing that if I my next blog to be, in any sense, meaningful; now is my only chance to write it.
(I’m feeling almost insane urges to write in Bridget Jones style, as I’ve read the first book during the last week. ..I’ve also read most of Dead until Dark; the first book in the TRUE BLOOD series. Spend way too much time on train. )

I’ll start talking about Halloween.
Japan have, ironically, held commercials for Halloween for almost two months now (starting almost immediately after I came to my host family), and it’s been hard finding any store without decorations from floor to ceiling. I say ironically as Japan actually doesn’t celebrate it at all!
Of course there are people that have get-togethers, and stuff like that (some schools may have certain cool costume-rules/ put up some decoration), but it’s not really a big thing, and most Japanese have never dressed up.
SO! Us EF-students decided to go crazy (lol, not really) in Harajuku; what place could be better?
Jessica and I bought Pikachu-costumes, and Truls bought a Chopper-costume (the reindeer from One Piece - google it!). Elvira showed up with her cat-lenses and cat-ears. And Sophie and Ansku joined us as their normal selves! I
t was a lot (lotlotlot) of fun! More than one group of hot guys turned around, whispering “Kawaii!” (cute) at us. I enjoyed myself >:3
To be fair; a lot of girls did their best to get a second glance at Truls, too (amazing how popular he is with the girls in Japan! It’s the same almost all the places we go! XD).
Some of us had school earlier in the day, so we weren’t able to get to Harajuku before 3aclock. Time went by so fast (singing karaoke, wandering the street, eating ice-cream, taking Purikura) that by the time we had to go home, we realized we had forgotten all about dinner. Bought with us burgers at McDonalds.
(Halloween-commercials replaced my xmas ones. )
Halloween in Japan; <3.>

Last Sunday (the 1st) me and my host mother went bicycling in the area. It was really nice, even though I had pretty much melted by the time we came home (when we left the house it was still cloudy).
But seriously though; not supposed to be 26 degrees in November!
Mi-Mama (/desperately trying to get used to the idea of calling her that, as she told me to) probably saved my life by taking me to, and treating me, Starbucks.

Tuesday was national holiday, and I went to a museum with some friends from class. The ..exhibition (?) was called Treasures of the Imperial Collections – Splendor of Japanese Art.
I had a great time, and saw a lot of awesome stuff- even though it was a little too crowded for me. When we had finished watching we all went home; had lot of time to relax<3 face="arial">my host mom Mi-Mama that I really like the LOTR-movies (Japanese TV-shows have a thing for playing movie-soundtracks in the background), and she told me that we could rent it. And on Tuesday she came back with two Agatha Christie (is that how you spell her name?)- classics, as well as Angels and Demons. Not rented, but bought!
Apparently she had gone hunting for the LOTR-movies, but when the store didn’t have them, she bought the other movies instead!
Seriously, how sweet isn’t that? (Not as sweet as Mom, mom-mom, sending me Norwegian books in the mail! But still really sweet.)

I have plans for both days this weekend (finally a Saturday with free from school!), and I hope it’ll be a lot of fun. Was supposed to have a girls-day all day tomorrow with Sophie, but then we both got a text from Taku (returnee in EF, maybe a year older) asking if we had any plans. So now we’re meeting up with Taku, CK and Truls and'll go to Waseda University for some festival! And maybe later we’ll split, and we girls will have out shopping as planned. Note: not quite sure what kind of festival. Asked Sophie but got this in return; “I don’t know but we can meet cute students.” :D

Sunday I’ll meet two of my SENPAI’s from school (I never think much about these things, as Norway’s not very big about age-differences. At least not when it’s just a couple of years), lol.
Mio and Lisa are both 3rd year students at my school (I’m 1st, together with the girls one year younger than me), and I think I came to know them mainly because they’re friends of Yoshino (also 3rd year – just came back from her exchange in the US). Anyways, they’re two of the sweetest girls in all of Japan! :D
They both speak English very well, as I think they both used to live in America when they were younger. We’re going to Shinjuku (have to check name).. Shinjuku’s Bitter Sweets Buffet, together with Truls, Bianka, Jessica, Sophie S, and Ansku.
1800 yen for 90 minutes of stuffing one selves with as much as one want ~
Later maybe shopping! :3

The weather in Japan is all weird at the moment. Just last Sunday (bicycle day) I was melting, but Monday was really cold! (My first cold day in Japan without any typhoon as excuse. ) And all the days until today have been really cold; waking up this morning was awful! I even put on a scarf. But then I had P.E. outside with shorts and jacket, and all of a sudden I was back to melting-mode. (Haha, I’m actually better at hitting the balls in tennis, hard baseball, and soft baseball then most of the girls in my class! –I say hitting the balls, because that’s actually all we’ve done this far).
I hope tomorrow isn’t as hot though. It will ruin ‘buy cute winter stuff –mode ‘for sure.

AND! (!!!) Today I found out that the YEARLY JUMP CON is in December!!! (Apparently they have more than one, but this is the absolute biggest one). I am SO going!
Unfortunately they’ve changed the rules this year, so only like 1-2000 people can see the biggest stages, where the voicers from Animes like Naruto, Bleach, One Piece and so on will have performances!! D:
I want to see them so bad, but you have to send in some mail with some.. thing that you get in the jump-magazine (stick it to a card, and mail it). And then if you’re really lucky, you get selected. (But what are the odds; it’s literally one in a million! -if not more!)
- There’s a One Piece Yaoi con this month too, but possibly this weekend. Maybe I should trick Truls going there with his costume? Probably shouldn’t, as he will hate me forever.

Just realized my computer is dangerously full, as the line has become red. Should delete/move some movies.

And now the time is 01.43. Have not yet started finding photos or checking text<3>

Bare.. Oktober XD

2009-10-31T00:22:00.005+09:00

OPPDATERING! –På norsk den gangen her!
Grunnen til at det er norsk er rett og slett fordi jeg ikke gidder å stresse med Engelsk. Ikke at der er så veldig mye å stresse med, egentlig, men greid å ikke glemme helt av Norsk og. (jeg snakker tross alt relativt lite norsk for tiden. )

Um, greia er at siden det er så lenge siden sist jeg blogget, så blir det en haug ting som får mye mindre oppmerksomhet enn det egentlig burde. SORRY!

Jeeeg har vært i dyrepark og på museum med hostmoren min, Michiko, men det er så lenge siden at jeg husker ikke nok detaljer til å skrive noe særlig vittig om det. Jeg legger nå likevel ut en video med en del bilder derfra (BILDE AV HOSTMOREN MIN, FOLKENS). Det blir allikevel alt fra den saken ^^’

Siden sist har jeg fått PAKKEN hjemmefra! Seriøst, alle sammen er verdens beste folk. Både mamma og venner XD Tusen takk mamma, for at du sendte ned pakke til meg med diverse ting som jeg garantert kommer til å trenge i løpet av året (+ en den ting jeg nok kanskje ikke kommer til å trenge like mye, haha).
Og søte pusene, som skrev fantastiske brev og sendte med gøye ting osv osv! HJERTE.
Det blir ikke respons i dette innlegget (siden det allerede er ganske sent D: ), men det blir! Får se om det ikke blir på slutten av Halloween-innlegget mitt (som jeg skal prøve å få ut ikke så veldig lenge etter halloween), eller om det blir å sende meldinger til enkeltpersoner. Hva synes dere er best? ^^

Ellers har jeg altså vært på STUDIO GHIBLI museet(!!) <3 OKAY. JEG ELSKER STUDIO GHIBLI!<3 (haha, alle japanere som skal skrive det i romanji kommer og skriver ’jiburi’. Det er litt gøy for min del :’D )
Yoko-sensei (en av japansk-lærerne mine) tok med meg og Yuni til museet i skoletiden, mens alle de andre i vårt år satt inne og hadde prøver hele dagen! XD UNFAIR for deres skyld, men veldig gøy for min.
Ghibli bygningen er ekstremt pen! Jeg har lyst å flytte inn – så kan jeg sove i kattebussen fra Min nabo Totoro om natta. (godteri tar jeg fra butikken og fra pulten med masse originale arbeidstegninger. Der står det nemmelig krukker med jelly belly jelly beans OSV. <3 )
Men, janei. KOM OG BESØK MEG FOLK, så kan vi dra dit sammen <3
ELLERS. I morgen er det som sagt Halloween! Jeg gleder meg masse. Jeg må først på skolen, men skal skippe iaido-trening til fordel for å møte folk. Jeg har kjøpt meg Pikachu-drakt, så det kommer til å bli så siiiinsykt gøy. Karaoke, Purikura og (mest sannsynlig) McDonalds XD

GØY video fra da folk vandret rundt og fant love-hotell. (Altså et hotell hvor man kan betale seg inn og ha sex). Dessverre var det ikke mer plass på minnekortet, siden jeg ikke hadde tatt ut bilder på en god stund ^^’

(begge videoene er lagt til før de er ferdig å prosesse, så det kan hende kvaliteten er litt tait. Jeg er forresten veldig lol på den første videoen XD OG ellers er video to uten lyd pga youtubes fantastiske piracy thing XD )
OOOOG siden tingen er hemma, må jeg velge mellom 2 videoer eller halv tekst XD Derfor, for å se teit video hvor jeg er sær osv(!!!) klikk på linken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663pBoKeGs4

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the last days- a badly written blog by Jannicke Bech <3

2009-10-11T23:04:00.005+09:00

ENGLISH SPEECH CONTEST-DAY
Two days ago my school had English Speech Contest- day.
I had a headache the day before, and my host mother told me to sleep in the day. This lead to me only being able to sleep for a little over three hours the night before. Fail.
But yeah, even though we showed up at school at normal time I didn’t feel like sleeping while listening to the speeches! (And that is more than I can say for a normal school day.)
Almost all the girls were from 1st and 2nd year of Senior High School (SHS and JHS did it separately. If JHS did it at all, that is XD), only one of the girls were from third year!
A lot of them were extremely good, and it really showed that they had worked hard and done their best.
After all the contestants had finished performing their speeches, it was time for me and Yoon Hee to enter the stage. Unfortunately I had to go first. I was really nervous, as I didn’t have any exact script to read after, but I was able to do it without dying. When I laughed, so did everyone in the hall. It was pretty funny (H).
I think I shocked a lot of the girls when I told them that High School Musical is pretty much considered a primary school-thing in Norway though. (Laugh)
Yukko won third price in the speech contest. Congratulations! <3>

After all the different formalities involving the contest, we watched a play called A Pinch of Salt. (I’m pretty sure that was the name.. haha ) It was a lot of fun, and everyone laughed a lot. Japanese people own Western people at watching plays.

RANDOM MEETING WITH PEOPLE FROM CAMP! :D
The plan for yesterday was going to random place with Elvira.
In the end Elvira, me and Bianka went to Akihabara. HAHA, we managed to get lost in a hentai basement. (LAUGHLAUGHLAUGH).
Or, yeah.. We went into a normal store, laughed at the 18+ sign in front of the basement stairs, and went upstairs with the only escalator around. After looking around at the stuff there we found out that there were no escalator for going down, and that we had to walk down the stairs that led to outside to the other side of the building; some boring empty street. So we had the choice of walk down the street and back to where we originally came from (like down the street, around the building, and up the road again) or simply just walk through the hentai basement that happened to have a second entrance in the empty street. And no 18+sign O: (laugh) So we picked the second one, thinking that it wouldn’t be any problem to just pass through it.
Of course it was almost impossible to find the stairs up to the store again, so we ended up being lost down there, surrounded my random men in their 50's and 60’s. Hahaha!
Later I also managed to get trapped in an elevator. But that was another building.

Truls came and met us after he had finished school (he had school, ha-ha) and we all just walked around a little more. With some help finding from the oh-so-awesome gang I was hanging out with, I managed to find a CAMERA!! :D :D Thank you so much mom, for giving me money! <3>
But yeah. It’s really cool and purple. And the bag is lime green! And it’s SO cool. So JOY! Now that I have a camera that works perfectly fine and is not too big, I’ll probably start taking more photos and videos! :D
Now you can all look forward to that (Or turn emo, if you think that would be more fun! :D )
After Bianka had to go home, the rest of us wandered even more. Into a park where I turned on my camera for the first time soo that’s what the video is. Sorry for all randomness and weird laughing and weird noises! I got free Red Bull just earlier (commercial thing- they handed them out for free! O: ), so I’m totally blaming that. *cough* (laugh) It's actually kind of embarrassing, but also kind of fun. So feel lucky that you get to watch it. (It's in Norwegian though, sorry!)
Soo. We walked out of Akihabara and all the way to.. Don’t remember the name. We forced poor Ellie to eat at McDonalds before we went home.
OH YES- junk food for the win.

..TODAY? XD
Today my host mother woke me up at half 10 and said I needed to hurry up and clean my room! XD So before ten I had cleaned it pretty good, and also managed to take a shower.
We took the train to ..Yeah, I don’t remember the name, but it’s kind of big. Keio line, but in the other direction of Shinjuku! XD
We ate spaghetti for breakfast (lol, I’m not sure if that’s a normal thing XD), and since they had no cola my host mother ordered something else for me, I don’t remember the name.
But it was lemon soda (lemon soda in Japan is SO cool. It’s green. Like really really GREEN. ). But my lemon soda was even more special than the normal ones. Because it had vanilla ice-cream in it. HOW COOL ISN’T THAT? (Laugh) I’ll admit I was a little skeptical, but it tasted awesome! (Gotta love Google, I just found a picture!)

I joined her looking around some store that seemed to have the hots for old stuff and America. Really.
She bought the cutest toilet- ..um. Stuff to have on the seat and the lock. (I really hated that stuff when I first came here. But now that I’ve gotten used to it it’s actually just really practical; the toilet seat is never cold XD) After that she bought us Starbucks and we went home. And since the DVD-player finally is home from repairs, I got to watch my first English movie! <3>
Haha, my family have all the Harry Potter movies, but that is also the only English movies they have, I think. But after commenting on the TV-show that always send the Lord of the Rings music in the background (and making her understand what I meant when I said Lord of the Rings), she suggested that we could rent it. She had apparently watched them before, but seemed to think the same as mom; Harry Potter is okay. LotR is good, but way too long. Hahahah XD Something like that.
Tomorrow I have to wake up at 08.30, because I and my host mom are going to an art museum or something like that! :D (Not quite sure if it’s a museum though, but that was the latest words she and Ken used XD). Not sure if Ken is going to join :P ¨

YEAH. I’M AWESOME AND UPDATE BEFORE DEADLINE.
I do realize that this blog have a LOT of mistakes though (i saw them as i went through the text just now), but I don't have the energy to correct them XD They're annoying, but you won't die of them. (there are a lot of yeah's - i actually removed some, and well. Just a lot of random annoying stuff i absolutely should remove before posting this. -something I won't be doing ^^' )

OH BTWBTWBTW! The people in on the Christmas thing: SEND A MAIL TO AUDHILD! Audhildt@hotmail.com Kind of important! XD (and please ask people you doubt have read this blog to do it as well. -not random people though XD lol

MOVIE AND PICTURE TIME!! YOOSH XD

Haha, even though two of us were from Norway and one from Sweden, we were only able to speach our own languages for periods at the time. Then one of us forgets it, and we're all back on the English. (I just happened to film just when were in a non-English period. ) -and as i said earlier. DAMN, this movie is kind of embarrassing for me, as I make weird noises and laughs in high-pitch the entire thing. ENJOY making fun of me later <3>

IS ME AND P!

Haha, the Purikura had a witch-hat that we could use for free XDD hahaha

Different random pics in the park! Gotta love new cameras :D It was really dark though, so the pics didn't get very clear XD But believe me, with light they're awesome XD

LOL btw, the height of that thing in the latest pic.

Stuff I've been up to lately!

2009-10-08T22:51:00.012+09:00

YESYES, I KNOW I KNOW. I’ve neglected my task as dutiful blogger, once again! (Even though I swore to all of you to update at least once a week! XD )
..The ‘sorry-for-late-update at the beginning of every blog is beginning to grow old, isn’t it? (Laugh)

I’m not quite sure what to blog about, actually. Since my last blog I’ve been to the same old places more than once (aka Shinjuku, Harajuku etc etc) –HAHA jealous people at home – done Purikura and Karaoke several times – HAHA again, jealous people at home – and, well, a lot of other stuff too.. XD

Even though my Japanese is still crappy, I can announce that I did not die at my kanji-test with Mr. Peterson (I only kind of failed. –One thing is knowing the meaning and explaining them, another thing is to know the Japanese words. Luckily for me I had to do all of these things - the reason for me not handing in a blank sheet. ).
It wasn’t really a hardcore test though, more some little ‘let’s review’-thing.

I just realized that it’s been so long that I had not yet joined a club last I wrote. Now I have!
Or, I had. I just forgot to write about it.
Anyways, the club I joined is the Iaido-club! For those of you that don’t know what Iaido is (that would be most of you, I guess), it’s kind of the same as kendo.
And for those of you that don’t know what kendo is (..Still most of you? XD ), it’s traditional Japanese swordfighting.
I think the difference is that we don’t do any sparring in Iaido. (If you want to read more about it; a link to the oh-so-wonderful-and-bellowed Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaido )
It’s a lot of fun! I would probably have rather joined kendo, but being able to join an Iaido-club in a Japanese high school is pretty awesome. We have practices too often though. (Laugh)
Two days a week before school, and three times after. But apparently they’re not very strict on showing up (as they’re not counted as a real sports-club), so I’m able to get away with not showing up on the morning practices ~ (I have to get up at 6 a.m. as it is T-T )
In Saturdays the practices are lo(o~)ng though. Seriously. School ends at 12.30 or something like that, and then it’s practice until 17.00.

Tomorrow is English Speech Contest Day in Koka. Some of the students will give speeches, and the rest of us sit and listen. Of course, I have to give a little speech of my own about the Norwegian school. I prepared it about 5 minutes ago(^^'). YoonHee will be holding a speech too, not quite sure about what though. The funny thing is, though, that she will be holding it in Japanese – something that makes her the only Japanese event the entire day. (Laugh)
After the speeches and stuff, we’ll be watching some play.

GASP/
The other day when I came along for Jessica and Truls guitar shopping (spending way too much time in guitar shops, haha), I saw a Japanese wedding ceremonyyy! <3 (well, not the actual ceremony, but XD )
Truls had bought his Guitar, so we all went to Harajuku. We bought jummy ice-cream, and went just outside of the main thing to sit down and eat it without being walked over by people (it was a Sunday, after all).
Then we realized that the stairs we were sitting in were leading up to a shrine. And while we were walking around on the grounds, the drums started playing (beautifulbeautifulbeautiful) and the bride and.. um, all the other people came up from another set of stairs and walked into the shrine.
It was so cool! She was very beautiful in her white kimono.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. My dance group is no longer dancing to Circus by Britney Spears. We have changed our song till the latest Bleach opening with Scandal. We’re doing the bleach opening version :]

BTW: remember to watch the latest Naruto episodes on Tokyo TV every Thursday at 7 a clock. (Double laugh)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu-624MmLo0&feature=related
Lot's of pictures this time (so noone is allowed to be mad at me for being a crappy updater ~ XD haha)
As usual, the order is completely mixed up, adn the lates pictures the first XD I was smart enough to set in pictures before the text this time though, as the text always get mixed up if you do it the other way around (something that always make me very annoyed. XD ) !

Funny faces!

random shrine-thing we came across, walking from Harajuku till Shibuya! XD
Is that a cool building, or is that a cool building?
The cute bunny on the gates to the kindergarden in Harajuku. (we always eat our ice-cream in this area :3 )

Jannicke's many (and always) beautiful faces ;*(H)
Karaoke ~ there's a video in facebook with us singing YMCA (laugh)
Just arrived in Shinjuku.
HAHAHAH

oooomg, seriously! See the toydog on that guys lap? It's the dog from the Softbank commercials. (Softbank is one of the biggest cellphone-companies in Japan). It is strapped to his cellphone.

Elvira and Sophie

Jannicke and Jessica with BEAUTIFUL SKIN. Haha, gotta love the different Purikuras XD

PURIKURA <3<3> ..thiiiis.. would be me in the thing outside the Akihabara sexstore XD Hahahah XD The thing is too low though (as you can see by the angle of my head. )

The Japanese wedding ceremony! <3>
The shrine where the wedding ceremony thing was. Just before they arrived ^-^

People we met on the street :3 ("TRULS, LEND ME YOUR CAMERA!! " ) The guy talked a lot to us XD

..Truls has just bought the worlds most awesome camera that take the worlds best pictures ever. BTW. XD

Aaand. A late HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Kristina, Agnes, Camilla and Yukko! ~ <3

My day

2009-09-27T01:14:00.007+09:00

Yeah. I’m updating only one day after my last update.
If I don’t, I’ll just forget everything I wanted to say, and give you all a pretty crappy blog later on ^^’

Today I went to Sophie’s bunkasai!
I went through the trial of fire and came through it without too many burns.
(Aka I found the way without using more than two hours. )
The day started with me oversleeping (approximately 30 minutes), taking a shower and putting on make-up. Not too much stress, as I hadn’t told her exactly when I would show up.
It did get a little bothersome when I finally arrived at my train station and realized that the directions I wrote last night still lay at my desk at home, though. After going back and getting them, this is what I did;

Mindamidaira – Takahakafudo [local train] 3 minutes
Takahakafudo – Shinjuku [rapid train] 40 -50 minutes?

Shinjuku station is HUGE, as Shinjuku is one of the most popular shopping areas in Tokyo. So I spent some time trying to figure out in what direction to leave, where to go, and then where to enter. I finally found a sign that said Saikyō line, and did my best to follow all the directions. When I finally found the line though, I obviously chose to take it the wrong way. So from there, this is what I did;

Shinjuku – Shibuya (I think it was Shibuya?) [Rapid train] 10 minutes
Shibuya (?) – Ikebukuro (that’s past Shinjuku again) [rapid train] 15 minutes (?)
Waaaiting for 10 minutes
Ikebukuro – Akabane [local train] ..short time
DONE! If you don’t count in all the people I had to ask to get through the –should be 15 minutes – walk to her school.

She and Sophie (nr2) waited for me outside of school! Sophie nr.1 one and Sophie nr.2 are both from Germany, both look slightly older than they are, and both wear glasses. FUN!
We spent around two hours walking around in her school, trying out stuff and checking out the hot guys. I and Sophie2 are both stuck in Christian all-girls schools, so Sophie1 had a good time rubbing it in our faces.
The people in her school are sooo cute though! We did different kinds of games, and even though we failed at everything they gave us a lot of points. (Seriously. To the point of picking up the paper plain from the ground and forcing it through the point-thing- Then yelling YAY, smiling, and writing a lot of points on your sheet of paper.)
I feel so smart though; I managed to answer the questions “what is this? *pointing at a balloon* “ and “what is 10 + 10?” ! I won a Winnie the Poor bear and some chocolate candy! :]
I also spoke two sentences with Wei, another exchange student from Norway (he and Truls go to the same school in Norway, actually) right before we left.

After the bunkasai we went to AKIHABARA! It was my second time, and it was even shorter than the first time T-T But it was a lot of fun, and I bought a Kiki’s delivery service (Studio Ghibli) hand-towel for school (Japanese schools don’t have anything to dry your hands with. You need to bring it yourself.) ! It is really cute ~
We ate dinner at … some burger place with really small burgers, and hurried to Shinjuku. In Shinjuku we did Purikura, and wandered the streets.
Akihabara – Shinjuku equals Maids – Host boys. They were pretty hot! (Laugh)
A lot of African people that want to drag you into random clubs too, though.
(I don’t look Russian. -.- )

And yeaaah, that was my day.

BTW!
I need to know who’s in on the Christmas thing! (The ‘I send you a box with presents, and you send me a box of presents’ – thing)
I’d like to start buying and getting things done as soon as possible, as I most of the time only has Sundays off from school (and I might be busy with other things too).
So Audhild (I’m kind of under the impression that you’re in charge? XD), please give me a list or something with all the people that are in on it? And everyone just ask around a little, and give her or me a message :]
If she’s going to be in charge of sending from Norway, then maybe giving both a message would be ideal.
Also. How much is each present going to cost? (Not exact, but .. guidelines or something XD) I can’t afford too much, as I need to buy a lot of people something, and also take care of the shipping fee all by myself :]
AND. People that know they’re on the list (-or want to be on the list!), please tell me if there is something special you would like. Or something you would hate to get. (Again – nothing too expensive! No promises on keeping your wishes, so maybe give me more than one option ^^)
Just send a mail (jannita_12_12@hotmail.com) or comment in the blog. Something like that.

GOODNIGHT! ~

Okay. I wasn't sure if I should upload this, as I speak crappy english and is weird in it. But it was kind of fun, so.. yeah. Please don't make fun of me for all eternity. It is taken with my crappy cellphone-camera btw.
(you had to crawl, REALLY CRAWL, on the ground under random stuff. -so that's what we are doing, in case anyone was wondering. )

Yosh! Update!

2009-09-26T00:14:00.024+09:00

OKay. Shame on me. (SHAME!)
Sorry for always taking forever to update, but because of my awesomeness I’m going to blame it on me being a good girl, not spending too much time on the computer. (I have, ofc, been able to squeeze in time for some chatting with friends and keeping updated on facebook and so on. Heh heh. )

Like Ane mentioned in one of her latest posts (the latest? ): I feel like this thing should be split up in more pieces, because some of it really deserve own headlines. So.. I’m going to do my best trying to write this blog, separating three main events that I would like to share with you.

(Also, this thing is filled with spelling errors and weird sentences. I'm too lazy to go through it. Sorry! ^-^ )

PART ONE: BUNKASAI! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Cultural_Festival )
We at Koka Gakuen had our bunkasai the 19th and 20th of September, a little earlier than most schools.

Everyone worked really, really hard to make it as good as possible, and it really was a once-in-a-lifetime experience!
Me, YoonHee (the Korean exchange student) and Mr. Peterson worked together in our foreigner-room. We put up a big map(two, actually), had a corner each for our countries, and did our best to make it look as little boring as possible! XD
I didn’t get all the pictures I wanted to show, since the neither school-printers or Mr.Peterson’s home-printer would cooperate with his iMac. A lot of the pictures I wanted to show from school didn’t make it, but for some reason all pictures with Ove in them did. Something the Japanese schoolgirls seemed to appreciate. (They also appreciated Malenes long legs. (laugh ) )
- The first day I hung out a lot with Shiori and Yuni(how we spell YoonHee’s name, for obvious practical reasons), walking around in all the different classrooms watching all the awesome stuff they had managed to do. –and seriously, I’m not exaggerating when I say that everyone work hard, and try to do their absolute best. (lol, I feel like I’m in some shojo, saying that. )

-day two I got to meet the guy that used to have Mr.Peterson’s job. 80 years old man from Australia. I really liked him, as he always made funny remarks and was very nice. He invited me to the former-teachers room(yes, there was a former-teachers room)where I got free lunch and a free calendar for 2010 (one of the teachers had her cat in it!). Haha, I realize how boring it sounds, but it was actually kind of cool XD In dozes, ofc.
I hung out with Shiori, Yuni, Sayaka, Yukko and a lot of other awesome people from my school!
- after day two it was concert-time! Bands and dance-groups from school performed for a cheering crowd, only interrupted once for bingo-time and free candy.
And then: VACATION <3

(WHY DON'T WE HAVE BUNKASAI IN NORWAY? D:<)

PART TWO: EF Tokyo-area gathering! (September 23rd)
What to say, what to say..
So, all the different areas with EF students had gatherings, and seeing as we’re around 12 in the Tokyo-area, you would think that a lot of people showed up, right? Well, in facebook around seven people answered yes in the poll, while around two people answered no, and the rest said don’t know or didn’t answer at all.
In the end we were four. And both Truls and Sophie were group-gatherers in charge of getting everything sorted out. Haha, I guess it’s what you could call major fail XD
Part of the blame should probably go on the fact that the date was pretty much in the middle of everyone’s bunkasai. Also, we were originally supposed to go to Disneyland(after a tip from EF we decided to wait until another time), and some people didn’t care to join as we simply went to some unknown Adventure Park. But seriously, it was absolutely awesome!
We went to Toshimaen A.P., not too far from where Sophie(Germany) lives with her host family. Me and Truls(also Norway) live pretty much almost in the same area, so we travelled together and met Jessica(Canadia) at Shinjuku before we continued to meet Sophie. The Park was pretty fun, though non of the carusels were too frightening. We really enjoyed ourselves though, and laughed pretty much all the time. Me and Sophie got our own intern humor (“weee don’t haave that in Nooorwaay! D’:> “ ). I pretty much died of randomness and laughing all the time.
We also met Cindi!! <3> She and her host family came and met us for about 2 hours in the middle, so we go to take Purikura with her and just hang around.

I, Jessica and Sophie spotted a lot of hot guys all the time (“weee don’t have that in Nooorway! We only have snowmen, ice bears and Truls”). Poor Truls. Haha, it was all in good sports though :]

After we felt like we had done all the stuff we wanted, we left and went to eat dinner at McDonalds. It was so, so awesome. My first not-Japanese meal since I came to Japan. After that it was Starbucks and Karaoke! ~

Honestly, the people that didn’t come really missed out on something!

PART THREE: Playing with schoolmates in Harajuku!

(Okay, I still find it amusing that Japanese schoolgirls always say let’s play, or do you want to play with us in.. instead of let’s hang out and so on. )
Anyways; Me, Yuni, Shiori and Sayaka played in Harajuku today!

Yukko was supposed to come with us, but unfortunately she has caught the swine flu, so it’s gonna have to wait until another time :/
We walked around for hours, looking in stores, taking Purikura, going to Karaoke, eating at McDonalds, and looking in some more stores.
Haha, it sounds like pretty much the same stuff that I did with my EF-friends, right?(Other than the Amusement Park-part, obviously)

It wasn’t. At all.
Everything was entirely different, actually! So weird to see the differences looking from the ‘outside’ and the ‘inside’, as you’d think everything was the same. I’m not exactly able to explain it either, so I’m sorry for the limited amount of detailed information. (laugh)
But yeah, the time flew by really fast as we had a really nice time, and I had to go home too fast XD

(haha. The only english songs the girls knew were Girlfriend, Poker Face, Womanizer and High School Musical. I have to admit though; it was pretty amusing when all of us jumped up and down on top of the sofa, screaming WOMANIZER WOMANIZER again and again and again. )

Tomorrow I’m going to visit Sophie’s bunkasai, something I’m looking forward to! After we’re going shopping and sneaking on certain kind of boys.(hoho~)

I’ll try to update telling you about it (but you all know how awful I am at it. )

[ BTW: what’s up with Japanese people showing miles of legs, but freaking out at shoulders? -.- ]

PICTURES: (sorry about the insane amount.)

FROM PART ONE: BUNKASAI

from PART TWO: GATHERING

FROM PART THREE: PLAYING WITH FRIENDS IN HARAJUKU

Okay, I have no idea why they're turned the wrong way, cause they're not really like that T-T

Shinjuku!

2009-09-13T22:44:00.002+09:00

Today was awesome! I woke up around ten, took a shower, ate breakfast, cleaned my room, and went to SHINJUKU with Truls.

We were supposed to buy electronic dictionaries, but failed. All the dictionaries were in Japanese only, something that made it really hard to understand all the different functions. (No kidding)
I’m not quite sure, but I think we even failed at getting it to do the (lol) Japanese- English. Something that would be kind of understandable if it had been only me, but Truls actually speak (/reads) Japanese.
But C.K. said that he’s going to ask a classmate of his (a foreign classmate) what kind of dictionary is the best, so we’ll probably figure it out later.

Even though we were not able to buy what we were supposed to buy, we managed to buy awesome matching ear buds! (Laugh)
Both of us wanted new ones, and the ones we bought were both really cheap and really cool. (They were also almost the only ones without that thing that goes way into your ear. I’m not able to wear those XD)
I figured it would be wise to have an extra set, as I always manage to ruin my ear buds. (Laugh)
I also bought another adapter! After trying to ask the man behind the desk where they were in English (.failing), I stared at Truls until he asked for me in Japanese.
Haha, I suck.
We weren’t quite sure if it was going to work, but it did. So now my PSP has power again! (Crisis Core on the train tomorrow, plz?)

In the middle of the day we came across some celebrities! The road was blocked and people were standing in masses around it, trying to get a good shot of the actor and actress. I think they were supposed to do a public interview or something like that. It was almost impossible to get past there though; we were pushed and pulled in every direction!
Losing each other was not really an option either, as I still don’t have a phone! XD (damn, I want a phone!)

After wandering for hours (not exaggerating) we finally found a STARBUCKS! I’d made Truls help me look for one since we came there, but surprisingly we didn’t see any (In Shibuya there is one at each street corner.), so I was pretty pleased when we finally found one.
Truls didn’t really want one, but since we had to wait forever before we ordered he changed his mind. (I feel bad for the employees at Starbucks. Really, it’s always overcrowded! )

After going around randomly for several hours we had to start thinking about going home, as both of us had a curfew at 7 a clock.

But first we wanted to see if the bookstore had any cool manga. After waiting for the elevator for couple of minutes without it showing, we took the escalators ten floors up. But they didn’t have what Truls was looking for (One Piece pocket nr one. Only all the other ones XD).
Luckily for us we managed to catch an elevator for the trip down. Rule nr one in Japan: too crowded is not an option.

After barely getting home in time I ate dinner with my family (Kentarou is starting to get sick. I’m crossing fingers and toes and all there is that it’s not a certain flu).

School again tomorrow! I have to get up at 6 a.m. so good night <3>

Randomness

2009-09-12T23:51:00.003+09:00

I know, *LA GASP*, I’m updating!
For some reason the buttons that change the size and type of writing is gone. The colorbutton as well O.o So you're just gonna have to live with this XD

Not too much to say, really. School is closed due to the flu, not quite sure if it’s starting again on Monday; EF will call and inform me if it does.

Yesterday me, my host mother Michiko and my host brother Kentarou went to a Chinese restaurant. Am I the only one that find it weird with Chinese restaurants in Japan? XD Pretty natural, I guess, but it still seems kind of funny in my head.
HAHA, you should have seen how sneaky we were, taking some chicken and stuff with us in napkins XD Whenever the waiter looked away Ken and Michiko were like rawr xDD

Today Michiko and I went shopping for a new tablecloth, but unable to find one we left back home with only a new salad-thing. Then we sat and watched two episodes of Detective Conan on TV before dinner XD
We also watched some weird animal show that played the Lion King Theme and compared Michael Jackson and some bird. FUNNY!
Ah btw Daniel, the TV also played Perfume in the background to some other show ^^

OO, I totally forgot to mention this in my last blog, but I’ve bought my first Japanese book! Final Fantasy VII: On The Way To A Smile. Honestly, the day I’m able to read it I will die of happiness. (I was like OMFGWTF when I first saw it. In a normal bookstore at some random stop.. O: Not buying it would probably have left me with suicidal thoughts XD )

Tomorrow I’m most likely going to Shinjuku with Truls! (lol the dictionary wants me to correct it to Trolls.) It’ll be awesome. I hope my host mother lets me go though, she and EF is kinda worked up over the entire swine flu thing.

I’m still phoneless though! T-T I need to get my alien registration before I can get one.. And it’s boring and black! T-T (It was the only pre-paid phone they had.. )

Um, that’s it. (Laugh)
Sorry for the fact that there’s really no information in the entire thing XD Also no pictures this time. Though if you want to see weird photos from the camp, feel free to visit the EF LCC Japan 2009 group on facebook.
:D

OH: I almost forgot. Answers to your questions, Audhild!
My brother is two years younger than me (1994), and loves Dragonball and Baseball. I think he’s in his schools baseball club. He smiles a lot of the time, and he call his mother baka when she don’t know how to pronounce English words. OF course, he's not all that good himself XD But he’s kind of cute. (in a “little Japanese person”- way)
BONUS: I found out that my father is some kind of delivery-man? HE drives around and deliver stuff. I don’t know what XD (He’s never at home. He just says hello and goodbye and then he’s off again XD )

And no, I’ve actually not heard anything about Twilight at all! O.o Though they’re maaajor Disney fans. As in Disney series and real movies-music fans. Everyone loves Hannah Montana and High School Musical. They’re pretty big fans of Disney in general as well, ofc. (I mean, they DO have two Disneyland’s in Tokyo. Haha, while talking to some girls in my school on the bus, I found out that Disneyland – just Disneyland – is for families, and Disneyland Sea is for couples. Something about the DL sea having some kind of adult-atmosphere XD)

/cough? (a)

2009-09-11T00:03:00.010+09:00

(SORRY IF PARTS OF THE TEXT IS GONE. BLOGSPOT LIKE TO REMOVE RANDOM STUFF. D: )

First of all I have to say sorry for not updating as often as I should! Again. I can’t really blame it on the “the time going by so quickly”- either, because honestly, If you told me I’ve been here for less than three weeks.. Well, I’d probably laugh at you. The time is so weird here. Even though I haven’t been here for very long at all, it feels like I’m here on at least my second month!
The first days of school I felt pretty much like some Japanese, female version of Harry Potter. (With blonde hair, blue eyes and of course no scar or glasses)Everyone looked at me and greeted me all the time. Seriously. All the time.

I have to admit that Mr. Peterson’s sense of humor is growing on me. It’s kind of weird, and kind of dry, but actually kind of funny as well XD
*looking for things to use at the culture festival*
“Ohh, THERE is that thing. It’s my Santa Claus outfit! –I’ve been looking for that! “
Not really intended pfun from his side, but I did laugh.

For the first time in my life I’ve actually discovered how it feels not to feel my legs. I mean, sure, I’ve claimed to more than once, but never actually felt(..or not felt) it. The reason? Tea Ceremony.
Yeah, me and YunHee (is that how you spell her name? D: ), the exchange student from Korea, have Tea Ceremony as a class. We’re being taught by scary old ladies in kimonos. Fine, they’re not really that scary, actually very nice. But very non-English speaking as well. (Also the oldest woman – the boss – is kind of scary.)
I suck, btw. I kept holding, drinking, walking and sitting wrong.
I also have calligraphy together with another teacher. It’s okay, I guess. A little cool, but not too much action XD

Everyone at school are incredibly nice! They keep smiling and trying to communicate with me! The 24th me and some of them are going to Harajuku to shop and take purikura! <3 I love them! <3

Ah, yeah! I almost forgot!
Just like Ane’s school, Koka Gakuen has been invaded by the swine flu(dum-dum-dum)! So no school for the rest of the week ~ (or maybe even longer O: ) I think the teachers on my school take it slightly more seriously than Ane’s though XD (laugh)
Not all good though; I wanted to stay after school and watch the Kendo club (that's not named kendo club, but something else and is pretty much the same), and see if I wanted to join. But due to SF it was cancelled in the beginning of the week. D:

I was in Shibuya this Sunday with Cindi(remember that awesome Finish girl with same taste in boys as me?) and her host family! It was one of the coolest things ever! We were at that place that’s always in movies and stuff – you know, where most people in the world cross the road in the minute, or whatever? AWESOME! I’ll show you all pictures later when Cindi’s host father have e-mailed them to me. But yeah, Cindi is really awesome and I’m so glad I got to meet her <3
Btw. GOSH, those Japanese shopping malls! They play LOUD music. And I’m not talking just a little louder than a normal Norwegian thing. The kind of loud where you have to yell to be heard! You get really pumped though XD (it's mostly techno)

Sorry this thing is so short, but I managed to forget all the things I wanted to say! D: But please just tell me what you want to know more about in the comments, and I’ll make sure to answer it in the next blog! XD

Btw, they all stick to Jann now. Also: I'm meeelting! - Japan is really hot.

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My host mother, Michiko! (I'll try to get pictures of the entire family later)

winteruniform! I can't wear all of it until.. later XD

Also winteruniform! We're allowed to wear this though :P Just not the tie.
But it's waaay too hot! and I don't have the summer shirt or the summer west-thing. SO i just wear the wintershirt and roll up the arms. (lots of other people do this as well XD But it looks kind of boring). I love the sweather though! I hope it gets cold soon XD
. I like my school uniform. Though the skirt is a little boring. Also doesn't look too good in only shirt. (Which is why I didn't upload any pictures of iiit ~ Though I'm pretty sure it exist photos of it on Facebook T-T )

MY ROOM:

..This was before i cleaned my room, btw ^^'

Jannicke in Japan!

2009-09-01T21:56:00.014+09:00

Okay, first of all I’m sorry for the late update. Actually, I did write some stuff while I was on camp, but because it became more like a day-by-day diary than a blog, I decided to drop it. (you do get the difference, right? )

(PART ONE)
Either way; about the camp!
Coming to Japan was pretty insane. Talk about change of culture! I went from soft bed (oh well, some sort of thing with air in – that I had to share with my mother) to airplain to futon. Not my first choice. - Not that futons are that bad, it’s just that I prefer to have my own bed. To keep it short; I had a really great time at camp (though I did miss home at times), and I met a lot of awesome awesome people! We had different kind of classes, and C.K. and Taku taught us (me and some other people) the hiragana. Some of them, at least! (You guys are awesome senseis! XD )
We also played games to help us improve our Japanese. Sometimes it was very hard because of my lack of Japanese-knowledge, but all in all I had the greatest time. And because I am absolutely unable to not tell you guys about it, I am going to force you all to listen about our one-day-trip to Tokyo!
At first I must mention all the hot guys in Tokyo. (HONESTLY! They grow on fucking lamp posts –or whatever it’s named – out here! )
We started our trip by going to Tokyo Tower! It was pretty cool, with a really good view! (We also got to eat with fork and knife for the first time since we came to camp. ) A huge picachu walked around outside, but sadly non of us got to take a picture with it! T_T Though we did take a picture of it :]
Me and Amanda (the “oh-so-awesome sweedish with oh-so-similar fandomness as me” girl at camp. Yeah. ) bought the same Tokyo Tower with Naruto on! IT’S AWESOME! : D
Old Town was also very awesome. Even though I got a bad fortune T_T (But fortunately -heh heh - you could leave it behind! So ha-ha bad fortune: I will do well with my moving, settling and family! >:’D )
Me, Cindi and Ansku (awesome girls from Finland with same taste in guys as me! :D :D ) papparatzi-ed (ok, I have no idea how to spell that) some random group of hot guys through a whole street. We almost gathered the courage to ask them to take a photo with us as well, but then we chickened out D: But no worries! I still have my sneaky sneaky photos! >:]]
We also went on boat cruising through some river. The view was seriously awesome. But the most awesome part that day was without doubt AKIHABARA! We had some maids showing us around some different places, me and Amanda squiiking at every little thing we saw. Also, a cameraman from Nihon TV followed us around filming to some program about what kind of people that visit Akihabara. (laugh) He filmed almost only me and Amanda! Probably because we’re both blond (that will change this weekend though – then I have to color my hair back) and both went totally nuts. Almost not a second went past without his camera stuck up in our faces or to whatever we pointed at XD Also, when our tour went to fast for us to have the time to buy drinks with Hetalia Axis Power on, he came later and gave the two of us a drink each! <3<3<3<3>

(PART TWO)

I arrived at my host family 3 days ago. Michiko(hostmother) and Kentarou(hostbrother – younger) came to pick me up, and Hiroshi (hostfather) drove us home from the station.
Saying goodbye to all the other exchange students was kind of tough, especially the ones we had to part with at the airport! When Amanda left, Moa, Victoria, me and Amanda cried and hugged each other! It was very touching, and my face stayed red forever. Like always ._.
But yeah, my hostfamily is really kind. Michiko have helped me practice/learn hiragana (for those of you that don’t know – one of the three Japanese alphabet), and made western-style food with fork and knife for me. Even though her English is very poor and my Japanese suck we’ve managed to work out all the stuff that we’ve needed to do! Kentarou is a hu(~)ge fan of Dragonball, something I find very amusing. The days before school started we watched anime to breakfast (One Piece, Dragonball, Inuyasha – those kinds of things.)
Today was first day of school. I was really nervous, to be honest! But it turned out way better than I expected! My school is kind of international, so at least two of my teachers are American.
Mr. Peterson is my schoolcontact, English-teacher, and kanji-teacher(YEAH, kanji. ). I will also have a lot to do with mr Van.. Van bemmel, was it? Something like that. They both seem very nice, and mostly the rest of the staff(and the students) speak English! The girls were all “KAWAII KAWAII KAWAII” around me. I got really embarrassed. D: (laugh)
My feet is majorly hurt after walking till and from school in my new leather shoes though. That kind of sucks, especially since I have P.E. tomorrow! As I kind of mentioned earlier I have to change my hair-color back to brown. I could probably have lied and said that blonde was my natural hair-color, but it would be too much trouble to keep track of the ..ettervekst (can someone please tell me what that the english word is ? XD ). You know – when the real color comes out. Or something like that.
I also get to take Japanese history and some other thing in English – how awesome isn’t that? I’ll upload pictures of my uniform later (when I’m not about to go to bed XD ), so that you can all see how cute it is! :3 I’m going to have to learn how to do a tie though, because even though it’s not something I have to wear it looks really awesome XD (laugh)
Photos of my host family will also come later. Again - when I'm not about to go to bed. XD

I think that was all I have to say for now. Again, sorry for the late update! Also sorry for whatever spelling errors I’m sure have to be in there, no time for proof-reading XD

[PFUN FACTS:I changed language. – no kidding - It’s so that all the awesome camp people will be able to read it as well. I’m not sure if I’m really able to write very well in English though D: ..though I might not have written very well in Norwegian either XD ]

Other fun facts about Japan:
- they're all kind of obsessed with not getting the flu. You wash your hands and gurgle(lol yeah) water every time you come back inside the house.
- it's hot. Like hot hot. Like hot hot HOT. Actually a little too hot.
- The ...greshoppe's (lol again, someone please tell me the english word) make a lot of noise.

- They make a lot more noise at school than we do! (i mean, who would have thought O.O )
- They have posters for things such as full metal alchemist and kuroshitsuji everywhere. It's awesome.
- The japanese insects suck. Bad. -literally

- They have a weird thing for sitting down when you shower.
- They have a weird thing for bathing naked together. (in the onsen, that is)
- Japanese schoolgirls tend to have a thing for asking "do you have a boyfriend" almost immediately. XD
- aand, that's all i can think of for now. Jeez, I can't believe I've been here for such a short amound of time. It feels really long.

PICS: (sorry for the random order. Check out more photos on Facebook! "EF LCC Japan 2009" )

Cute, nee? *-*

Haha, Truls is always so enthusiastic. Tho Cindi and I rock! :]]<3>

Yays :]

Lol C.K. and Jannicke has nice poses.

Amanda, Jannicke and random schoolgirls ! :]]

Random group photos for the win! :D

AH, btwbtw! You would think that the Japanese would find my name easy to pronounce, right? I mean, it's like Ja - ni- ke. But nonono! XD Mr. Peterson just introduces me as Jann-san to whoever asks my name, and the other japanese teachers just call me Jammi. I think the students area ctually trying to say my whole name. Though some of them just stick with the Jammi as well XD

en dag igjen (for pokker)

2009-08-21T00:58:00.013+09:00

FYFAEN, JEG SKAL TIL TOKYO, JAPAN I MORGEN!
:3

I dag sto jeg opp tidlig. For å greie å legge meg tidlig. For å greie å stå opp enda tidligere i morgen tidlig. Confusing?
Jeg og mamma dro til byen for å se etter shorts til en stakkars Jannicke. Etter hvormangetimer har jeg fremdeles ingen shorts, men er 1stk rosa eyeliner, 1 par rosa solbriller, 1 pakke jordbærpocky og 1 par lilla lave converse rikere. ( Og jeg er allerede på overvekt! )
Jeg innser at det virker som om jeg har gått inn i en ekstrem rosaperiode, noe jeg egentlig ikke har. Eyelineren har jeg hatt lyst på lenge, de hvite (hjerte-)solbrillene mine døde, jeg følte for jordbærsmak og fant ikke lave knæsjgule all stars. :3
Jeg har dessuten fått meg 22050 yen i cash (ca 1400 NOK) :D gøy gøy, de har pene penger <3

[PFUN FACTS:
EF sendte først mail om at vi fikk ha 20 kilo. Så sendte de brev om at vi skulle ha 23. Så spurte vi, og fikk beskjed om at 23 var riktig. Men pass på å ikke ha overvekt; det blir dyrt. Så spurte vi igjen og fikk beskjed om at det egentlig bare var 20, men siden vi skulle til Asia i 9mnd lot flyselskapene oss sikkert ha med 3 kilo ekstra, uten å ta betaling for det. (right!)
Vi ringte til flyselskapet. 20 kilo, MAKS. Gotta love EF <3 ]

Nå om ikke så lenge skal vi spise avskjedsmiddag! D': Det blir kos, for jeg er veldig veldig glad i lasagne. (Jeg er også veldig veldig glad i menneskene jeg skal spise lasagne med :3 ) Stakkars onkel Arne er halvveis død av visdomstann-problemer though. Det ser så grusomt ut at jeg håper jeg aldri får dem. D':

Jeg ble litt inspirert av den siste videobloggen til Victoria, hvor hun prøvde å si ha det til venner og familie men begynte å gråte igjen og igjen. Burde jeg også gråte? D: Jeg håper ingen ser på meg som et hjerteløst monster siden jeg ikke skaper Dødehavet nr 2. Jeg er veldig glad i alle sammen, virkelig.
INDRE JANNICKE LIGGER I FOSTERSTILLING!

D: Jeg kan ikke tro at jeg legger ut det bildet der. MEDIEMINNER<3<<3<3>

Ellers. Jeg drar til Japan i morgen, jeg. FYFAEN, jeg tror kanskje jeg dør O: Det blir seriøst helt fantastisk awesome <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<33<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<33<3<3<3<33<3<3<3<3<3<3>
Um, jeg er ikke helt sikker på når jeg får mulighet til å blogge igjen. Ikke sikkert det er nett på camp, og ikke sikkert jeg får tid til verken blogg eller vlogg. Er heller ikke sikkert vertsfamilien har tilgang på internett, men jeg liker jo å tro at de har det, da. :3

Skal være på Gardemoen i morgen kl 10, hvor jeg reiser sammen med Victoria og Truls til Munich(håper jeg ikke skrev det feil. flauness D: ), og så videre til Tokyo etter timer ventetid.

ØNSK MEG LYKKE TIL DA, FOLK! :D <3

(Jeg kan å vise meg fra min beste side. <3 )

Litt mer(!) random natt-news fra lite fungerende Jannicke (!)

2009-08-19T06:53:00.008+09:00

Først: awesome med mange bra kommentarer på det nye håret mitt! (loool, tydeligvis en del som hadde sine tvil før jeg faktisk farget det o.O XD ). Men ja, takk X]

Gode Nyheter folk! Ikke bare er jeg ferdig å pakke diverse kofferter; jeg har også fått vite at hjemreisedatoen jeg la ut var feil! :D
Jeg skal i virkeligheten hjem igjen rundt juni-juli. O GLEDE! Nei, seriøst, det var utrolig nice å finne ut at jeg ikke skulle hjem i mai, slik jeg trodde.

Skal innrømme at jeg ikke egentlig har så alt for mye å blogge om, atm, men dagen startet i hvert fall med menssmerter og tur på tollvesenet for å registrere diverse elektrisk stuff jeg skal ha med meg til Japan. (er ikke helt sikker på hva som vanligvis er tabu i blogg, men siden hele familien har blitt involvert i samtaler om p-piller, mensen, pupper + i dag, tar jeg sjansen på at det ikke er et problem. Men om du tilfeldigvis skulle være svakhjertet eller familiemedlem; lukk øynene og skroll forbi! ..ikke at jeg tror det kommer flere skumle nyheter. )
Seriøst, hele håndbagasjen min består egentlig av elektronikk.

Speilreflekskamera
videokamera
PC
harddisk
iPod
PSP
LADERE (!)

Uansett. Ting ble tungt, og det var bare så vidt jeg fikk med meg et lite skift i samme bag.
Den store baggen ble forresten skiftet ut med en større bag, dere kan sikkert gjette hvorfor. Det ble mirakeløst nok igjen 0,5 kilo å pakke på, så om noen kunne tenke seg gratis tur til Japan; ta kontakt!

stor bag nr 1

stor bag nr 2

EF baggen min som er ødelagt. D:<

PEnt og ryddig <3>

OG! Jeg var en tur innom Outland med mamma, og der traff jeg KODA! For de som ikke vet hvem hun er, så er hun ei utrolig søt jente jeg traff på Ai/soracon. Jeg mener å huske at hun egentlig heter Marie eller Maria. Uansett, hun hadde også nettopp farget håret blondt. Det var skøy :]

Øhm, ja. Jeg hadde jo mange fine bilder av henne <3>
Mjo, ja, nei. Som sagt lite å blogge om. Skal til tante Liv på Japseparty (the encore) i morgen kveld for å se på bilder fra turen til Gulbrand og t Liv. Jeg regner med at det blir ganske gøy (det er i hvert fall det jeg satser på XD ).

Torsdag skal jeg en tur til Tønsberg for å treffe Annbjørg, og kanskje flere. Det blir også veldig kos.

Sorry for dårlig gramatikk btw, jeg orket ikke se over noe særlig D:
Men nå skal jeg spise is.

BTW: Nå er det over midnatt så: GRATULERER MED DAGEN ANNE-HIME <<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<333<333<33<33<3<3>

OG SARA! <3>

Easy tiger! (- Jeg er blond )

2009-08-18T05:42:00.013+09:00

I går var jeg og mamma på besøk hos onkel Gaute og spilte Settlers. Det var gøy! (Selv om mamma har en tendens til å trø meg på foten og brøle "HAAAAH - HAAAAAH" på en skummelt nasal og irriterende måte hver gang hun får til noe. D':< )

Jeg storkoste meg ellers ved å se i den japanske fraseboka jeg fikk(låne?) av kompisen til onkel, som inneholdt en god del flere setninger enn jeg kommer til å trenge.

Man fant blant annet "Easy tiger!" og "It helps to have a sense of humour." under sex, og under drugs slikt som "I take mushrooms occasionally". Jeg lo ganske mye, kan du vel trygt si. Den verste delen er at det ellers var en veldig seriøs bok. (lonely planet for the win)

I dag sto jeg opp tidlig. (neiok, jeg sto opp 11.30).
Jeg hadde frisørtime 13.30, noe jeg bare nesten rakk, hos Studio Alf. Hun som klippet og farget håret mitt het Julie, og hun var utrolig plagsom. Da det ble snakk om Japan og jeg sa jeg ikke kunne japansk var reaksjonen hennes "haha, nei seriøst altså. Om du hadde kunnet japansk, da hadde jeg virkelig begynt å lure, altså.". Da hun fant ut at jeg ville dra dit for å se kulturen osv fikk jeg som reaksjon "haha, ja nei for du drar vel ikke for å lære språket (laugh laugh) ". Jeg satt i grunn med et smålig anstrengt smil rundt leppene de hele to timene det tok å bleke håret mitt.
MEN! Hun var i det minste ikke så dum til å bleke hår. Jeg er nå offisielt BLOND! (I know, wtf. )

Etter et par misslykkede forsøk av selvportrett fant jeg ut at jeg ikke falt inn i selvbilder-på-toalett - kategorien. Bildet er tatt av mamma.

Jeg var effektiv å tok bilde av meg selv da jeg håpet ingen så på.

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Njanei. Jeg er som sagt ikke helt into det der med å ta masse bilder av meg selv. Det ble egentlig bare ukomfortabelt å ta smellseriøse bilder på verandaen mens mamma tasset rundt rett innenfor de vegg-store vinduene. Resultatet var det greiene under.

Et seriøst bilde! SCORE! O: (sort of)

I løpet av dagen fikk jeg også:

PC-hud
iPod-hud
Hatt (XD EF er veldig oppsatt på at vi skal ha hatt. )
Badevekt (ok, den er faktisk for å veie koffertene XD mamma tar den med hjem og setter den på badet når hun reiser fra Oslo)
Oog - that's it, tror jeg.

Var så vidt på misslykket buksejakt med onkel Gaute, før jeg i grunn fant ut at det er like greit å kjøpe når jeg er i Tokyo.

Jeg og Line lagde brownies som vi spiste med is til fotballkamp hvor Molde tapte 2-1 mot Viking D':<
Maten var god tho! :D

Helt til slutt:
SKUFF! Jeg fikk billetten av EF idag, og der står det at hjemreisedatoen er 1.mai. RUMPE! D:<<

Helga

2009-08-16T22:27:00.006+09:00

Jeg startet fredagen med å dra ned på den japanske ambassaden i Oslo for å hente passet mitt sammen med onkel Gaute og mamma. Jeg har fått en sånn egen japse-side inni passet mitt! (også kalt visum.) Den ser så stilig ut at jeg skulle tatt bilde og lagt ut, hadde det ikke vært for at det kanskje er tidenes minst smarte ide. (laugh)

Du skal i stedet få se et nice bilde av fremsiden av passet mitt + jannicke + plakat med japse. Horray!

Onkel Gaute var like "POSE DA! stå foran der og hold opp passet da! :D :D" x'D

Senere spiste vi supergod is (sjokolade + sitron + skogens bær -elns ) i stekende varme. Smisking fra random valg-sak ga oss gratis konsert i bakgrunnen.

Jeg og mamma dro hjem til onkel Arne og Line mens onkel Gaute dro å bada. Dermed fikk vi ca helt ok tid til å rekke middag og somewhat- japseparty hos tante Liv. Gulbrand (sønn til tante Liv - søskenbarnet til mamma) har nemmelig kommet hjem fra et halvt år i Japan nå ganske nylig, så vi ble matet med ganske mye nyttig informasjon. Tante Liv inviterte også den japanske venninnen sin (som jeg ikke husker hva heter atm D: ) til å fortelle oss enda mer. Hun var utrolig hyggelig og enkel å snakke med, syntes dessuten synd på meg som måtte gå i skjørt året rundt (snø + skjørt ftw). XD
Det blir enda et japseparty nå om ikke mange dagene, hvor Gulbrand og tante Liv tar av og viser bilder fra turen sin, noe jeg er ganske sikker på kan bli heller interessant!

På lørdagen var det dårlig vær. Helt seriøst- det hølja ned hele dagen.
Jeg og mamma sov lenge, kjøpte pizza på lokalt pizzasted (Trollbula, tror jeg det het. Noe lignende, i hvert fall ) som var utrolig god. ~
Så så vi på The Breakup, en episode av Criminal minds og deler av Howl's moving castle.

Onkel Arne og Line var i bryllup hele dagen :]

[PFUN FACTS:

Jeg er egentlig ikke storfan av Jennifer Aniston i det hele tatt. Hun er genial i FRIENDS, men etter min mening har hun heller aldri greid å legge fra seg rollen som Rachel. Og det er tross alt grenser på hvor mange filmer jeg gidder å se "Rachel" i hovedrollen. Men, tro det eller ei, i The Breakup har hun faktisk greid det! I hvert fall litt :3 ]

I dag (søndag) har det ikke skjedd noe særlig.. Jeg sitter egentlig bare å styrer litt på PCen, så blir det kanskje tur til onkel Gaute senere i kveld. Dessuten skal jeg se om jeg får bestilt meg frisørtime på nett!

Sorry sorry sorry om hele innlegget ble mer som et sammendrag av de siste dagene (noe jeg misstenker at det ble D: ), skal prøve å ikke gjøre det igjen med det første. :]

BTW: fikk endelig lagt over bildet av Ida, Anne, Paulina og Kristina som vinka til meg da jeg tok bussen fra Molde. Stakkars menneskene sto der mens himmelen gråt(k, lol. XD ) O': K, lol XD

SØTE <3

Natt-news fra lite fungerende Jannicke (!)

2009-08-14T10:15:00.000+09:00

I dag, som teknisk sett er i går, kom mamma til hovedstaden. Da hun tilbrakte mesteparten av dagen om bord i bussen fra Molde til Oslo sto jeg opp sent, så på TV, leste litt osv. Daffa, med andre ord.

Foreldrene til Line (om jeg ikke har sagt det: Jeg bor hos onkel Arne og samboeren hans Line) kom på besøk for å se den nye leiligheten deres(Om jeg ikke har nevt det heller: De har ny leilighet. Det er første gang jeg er her). Den er utrolig fin med mengder utsikt (i know, i oslo O:), så de var fornøyde XD

Jeg hadde egentlig planer om å luske utenfor Øya Festivalen og snikhøre på Arctic Monkeys, men det ble ikke noe av. :'/

På kvelden kom jo mamma, som sagt, så da fikk jeg endelig min elskede PC-lader og kunne starte å bruke min egen data. Dette betydde PS og da kunne jeg endelig starte å lage banner til bloggen til Ane og Lena. Jeg skal sende Ane en kopi av den nå rett etter at jeg har lagt ut innlegget, så får vi se om den er godtatt :P

BANNERET:

Når jeg ser på den nå så syns jeg den ble veldig mørk. Men seriøst: veldig vanskelig å lysne et bilde uten at det blir sykt kornete D: Jeg er dessuten ikke sikker på om jeg likte så godt at den hvite streken fortsatte ned navnene. Mulig det blir finere om den bare forsvinner ut bildet, men vi får se hva Ane og Lena sier.
Jeg ble forresten ganske fornøyd med "alloa vs blackpool" delen. :]

[PFUN FACTS:
K. Jeg strevde masse med bildet til Lena D: Det ble nemmelig kornete nesten uansett hva jeg gjorde! D': ]

Sånn i midten av banner-laginga mi blei jeg forresten smålig obsessed med å se på Youtube videoer fra nabolaget mitt i Japan. [i haz a zoo in my baaaackyard, i haz a zoo in my backyaaaard ~ .almost]
Seriøst, søk 東京都日野市平山3-43-7 på Google Earth og sett på funksjonen som viser youtube videoer! DO IT!

NATTA! :D

Natten til snart Japan (jeg har søte venner)

2009-08-13T06:27:00.000+09:00

I går kveld så jeg Molde for siste gang på rundt 9 måneder. Her og nå kan jeg vel ikke påstå at jeg kommer til å savne stedet noe særlig, på tross av all bekymring dette garantert frembringer hos mamma og andre Molde-entusiaster. Jeg er ganske sikker på at Tokyo blir en finfin forbedring av folkemasse.

Jeg kommer, på den andre side, til å savne familie og venner. Kristina, Paulina, Anne og Ida var supersupersuper fantastiske og møtte opp på bussholdeplassen for å si ha det til meg. Det var utrolig rørende, og de 3 førstnevnte hadde også brev som jeg skal åpne etter at jeg har kommet frem til Tokyo. Jeg ble forresten også skikkelig glad for brevet og gaven jeg fikk fra moren til Ida (rørende plz D': ). De hadde btw også med seg varm brownies med nøttebiter i <3<3<3<3<33<3<<3<3<3<3

Bussturen gikk som smurt, med en god dose utlendinger som spilte høy techno-pop og ellers bitchslappet hverandre og hadde putekrig. Den eneste plassen som var ledig var selvfølgelig mitt i deres lykkelige reir, hvilket gjorde det veldig vanskelig å ikke trekke på smilebåndene. Etter buss-skiftet satt jeg ved en tilbaketrukket tennåringsgutt. Han var ikke fult så mye underholdning, men slapp av; jeg kunne fremdeles tyde ut den eksotiske musikken fra bussens frempunkt. O lykke!<3

[PFUN FACTS:

Masse klemming, squeeling, og "IKKE DØ!!?!?"-ing resulterer ofte i at en hel buss ser rart på det stakkars menneske som til slutt kommer om bord i bussen. Om det i tillegg blir en hel gjeng mennesker som står og vinker inn på det lille mennesket som prøver å betale for bussbilletten sin.. vel, da ender det ofte med at hele bussen bestemmer seg for å mobbe mennesket og vinke tilbake sammen med det. Resultatet er ofte at mennesket dør av flauhet og latter. ]

(MEH MEH, jeg får ikke til å laste over bildet fra mobilen til denne pcen - onkel Arne sin - men jeg skal legge ut bilde av søtinger som vinker senere! :D)

Da jeg kom til Oslo var det hjem til onkel Arne og Line og kræsje på soffaen mens de måtte på jobb. Der ble jeg til jeg våknet 3 timer senere, tok en dusj og dro på bytur med onkel Gaute. Jeg kjøpte meg en bok til flyturen til Japan da jeg var på Outland; A Certain Slant Of Light. Brisingr(3 bok i Eragon-serien) er tross alt litt for tykk, det er ikke slik at jeg har mer å gå på vektmessig i forhold til bagasje. Det var også utrolig gøy å se på alle menneskene i kilt som vandra rundt med hatter og store fjær. Personlig syns jeg også vikinghattene til Norge er utrolig awesome. (laugh)

Etter byturen var det hjem å se på Norge- Skottland. GØY! Utrolig irriterende at Riise får all oppmerksomheten i alle sammenhenger tho. Dessuten burde vi fått alle fem målene D:
Men ja, bortsett fra kanskje de tyve første minuttene var det en veldig bra kamp. (For Norge, that is.)

Ellers er det vel ikke så alt for mye å si. Tror mamma kommer i mårra med dagsbussen elns, så da får jeg strømkabelen til min pc. (hvilket betyr at jeg kan starte å arbeide på banneret til Lena og Ane :P )

Oslo: here I come!

2009-08-12T02:52:00.000+09:00

Jeg reiser med nattbuss til Oslo i natt. Seriøst, hjerte. Jeg elsker nattbussen. (HJERTE.)
Mange søte mennesker + bestemor skal komme å si hade til meg på bussterminalen. Kos! :D

Ellers sååå.. greide jeg å skrive Jannice Bech på kofferten min med hvit tusj for fem minutter siden. Hm. D:

Venner og bilder. (Sounds scary, right? )

2009-08-10T10:24:00.000+09:00

Jeg oppdaterer bloggen min.
- Hvem skulle trodd det?

Okay, greia er vel egentlig at det er en del ting jeg føler at jeg burde blogge om før jeg stikker fra Molde og reiser til hovedstaden. ( For ikke å snakke om en annen verdensdel. )

De siste to ukene, elns, har jeg prøvd å være mest mulig med vennene mine. Har vært flere bursdager, byturer osv. Har også vært på gathering/bursdagsparty hos Malene. [Jeg legger til bilder derfra nederst i bloggen! ]

[PFUN FACTS:
Det er seriøst mange i vennekretsen min som skal utveksle nå i år!
Ane skal til Scotland, Lena til England, Henriette til Italia og Malene til USA. ]
Sjekk sidemenyen for bloggene deres.

På fredagen var møtte jeg, Kristina, Lena og Biljana opp hos Ane. Grunnen var at vi hadde bestemt oss for å mimre litt, fantastisk nok på den flaueste måten mulig. For min del, at least.
For 2 og et halvt år siden filma vi nemmelig inn en film i bursdagen til Ane. Filmingen foregikk over 1 døgn (ca) på hytta til faren hennes. Det var noe av det artigste jeg har gjort i hele mitt liv!
- like artig var det allikevel ikke å se igjen filmen. Spesielt ikke når jeg har en spesielt fin scene på slutten der. (la oss bare si at det innebærer noen "rettforrankamera"scener med div sjeling, hyling og gal latter. ANE: aldri gi filmen til Lena som blackmail-materiale. Jeg tror jeg dør.) Uansett, jeg gråt av latter og flauhet.
Jeg, Kristina og Ane spilte Little Big Planet til, what, halv 5 tida på natta.

[PFUN FACTS:
For de som ikke vet det er Little Big Planet et PS3 spill hvor man styrer 1 eller 2 søtinger rundt i et galt univers utstyrt med gryntelyder og rare bevegelser. BOKSTAVELIG talt. Noe annet som er praktisk å vite er at søtnosene faktisk kan gripe ting med en av knappene bak på kontrollen. Tends to make things a lot easier. ]

Uansett, ja. Jeg er overbevist om at jeg har awesome venner. Selv om det alltid ender opp med for mye sukker.

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Meget uredigerte bilder fra Malenes gathering/bursdagsparty:
[vi er en bøtte rar med en dråpe søt. ]

Alle sammen! :D Kommer til å bli major savn.

AWS. Kniz.

:D PEACE AND LOVE.

Lol, eller ikke.

...normalt <3

knizknizkniz

X'DD

Ida rapa Malene.

Biljana og Ane : D

LOLOLOL!
Jeg velger btw, av min godhet, å ikke ta med bildet hvor Malene tar splitthopp med tanga x']

I LOL'D

Ja, nei, deet.

Biljana og Jannicke :D

Neste stopp: Japan

2009-08-05T10:42:00.000+09:00

Ny blogg- Hvilke muligheter!? ( hahaahah. )
Etter litt frem og tilbake med layout og banner på nyblogg ble jeg (.)endelig fornøyd(sånn ca). Yay me!
Hva synes du ?

(btw, litt tull med størrelser og farge på text, men ingenting du ikke lever over. )

Det er ikke lenge til jeg drar til JAPAN nå.
Som i JAPAN! Som i TOKYO-OMRÅDET! Jeg mener, HERREGUD! :D
(Så når hele verden er på Green Day-konsert skal jeg ta av på Studio Ghibli-museum! Kattebuss og minikino og mer ftwftwftw! )

Sikker på at de fleste allerede vet hva bloggen skal dreie seg om, men om du ikke vet det;
Jeg reiser med EF og skal være utvekslingsstudent i Japan i ett år.
Adressa er 3-43-7 Hirayama, Hino, Tokyo 191-0043 (東京都日野市平山3-43-7 . Google - earth - it! )
Familien er Mr og Mrs Takahashi + sønnen deres Kentaro (1994).
Skolen er Koka-Gakuen High School.
KULT? NICE? AWESOME?
Skal inrømme at jeg ble ganske WTF'd når jeg fant ut at det var kristen jenteskole, men jeg har vel noen lunde slått meg til ro med det. Elns.
SNAKKES, hawt japanese boys. T-T

Host-familien min liker golf, fiske, hagearbeid, og fotturer. Høhø, ikke helt min stil, men regner med at det går greit! XD

[PFUN FACTS: (ja, jeg regner med at dette blir en regelmessig sak. Kniz. )
I min godhet og søthet strevde jeg lenge lenge med å skrive et brev til vertsfamilien min. Det var seriøst vanskelig. Vanskelig.
Du kan jo tenke deg selv? Prøve å skrive til en familie du skal bo ho i ett år for første gang, da alt av kontakt du tidligere har hatt med dem består av navnene deres på et papir. SURE, interne vitser deles ut i mengder i slike brev. Høh D':
- Uansett! JEG FIKK SVAR! Do read. Do laugh.

Dear Bech

Thank you for you e mail
I am Michiko It is our pleasure too to have Bech with us
Sorry ,I dont understnd English
We'll be looking forward to seeing you!
Sincerely yours
Michiko Takahashi 　　]
Ja, nei, deeet. Vurderer for øyeblikket å sende dem Google Translater-versjonen av brevet mitt. Someone please poke me! D': >
Ho virker SØT though! :3

Jeg reiser fra Molde til Oslo (for å henge med familie, and so on) mandag 10. august eller tirsdag 11. august. Depending på når kameraet mitt er tilbake fra reperasjon. Nytt objektiv <3>

Det kanskje ikke alle er klar over, er at før jeg skal til vertsfamilien skal jeg også på EF-camp! En leir hvor alle EF-studentene som skal til Japan og har meldt seg på(det er altså frivillig) skal tilbringe en uke sammen og lære litt om språk, kultur ++. Det blir utrolig gøy å møte andre som skal til Japan, og jeg gleder meg blandt annet veldig til å møte Victoria som også skal til Japan fra Norge. Kanskje vi havner ved siden av hverandre på flyet? >////< [Sjekk ut victorias blogg; www.rawrvictoria.blogspot.com . Link i sidemenyen, under utvekslingsbloggere! ]

[PFUN FACTS:
Angående Victoria jah.. Hun skriver veldig praktiske pakkelister.. SÅ praktisk, in fact, at jeg sort of kind of stjal den. :3 ]

Er ikke sikker på hva mer jeg trenger å si, sånn egentlig, men k. Jeg legger ved noen bilder nederst, så folk får se ca hvor jeg skal bo osv osv. :D

BTW: Hvem synes jeg skal bli blond før jeg drar til Japan? Det hadde vært litt gøy. Sånn, ja.. :] Ikke sikkert jeg kan farge håret blondt senere, siden noen skoler har regler mot det (er ikke sikker på hva min skole sier), men de kan jo ikke nekte en norsk utvekslingsstudent å gå der bare fordi jeg har lyst hår, hm? (a) Dessuten; alle liker jo et blåøyd, lyshåret menneske. Right?

ALSO: Hva synes folk? Om bloglayout, reise ? In general, stuff?

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Jorda. Norge - Japan. langt much?

Kart over Japan. Kanskje ikke det aller beste, men det er veldig enkelt å forstå, so.. XD

Bilde over Tokyo-området. Tenk på det litt som f.eks. Møre og Romsdal. Den farga, mørkere, grønne flekken er Hino. Ca 35 km unna det urbane senteret av Tokyo, som den lure tingen på bærbare pcn så fint forklarte det.

Google Earth ftw.
Største firkant: Tokyo Området, ca.
Mindre firkant (venstre): Hino

Mindre firkant (midten): skolen min

Mindre firkant(høyre): Det urbane senteret av Tokyo. (luls)

Det jeg tror er huset mitt. Tusen, tusen, tusen takk til Victoria som fant det frem til meg! *-* (søk 東京都日野市平山3-43-7 på GOOGLE EARTH. )

Sommer og vinteruniform på skolen min. SØT!
Link til bilder fra skolen min. Den er ny :3 http://www.kokagakuen.ac.jp/juken/shisetsu.html