鋸山

Yesterday me and a couple of friend was to  鋸山 and climbed to the top! Or well there was stairs all the way to the top, but the legs got tired anyway! We went to the mountain by a rented car and it took over one hour to get there (1.5h?). First thing we did was taking a bite at a local resturant thingy that served a lot of different fish dishes, I don't know the name of what I ate but it was different things from the sea and rice to that, really good food! After that we went to the mountain, got some fortune telling at a local shrine and looked on some old statues spread out on the mountain. And most important we went to the top of the mountain and looked at the nice view!

After climbing the mountain we went to a local onsen. It wasn't a natural hot spring but nevertheless it was hot and really nice! I've never been to a onsen before so it was a good experience, must go to more onsen!

After the onsen (looks odd without kanji 温泉) we went back to Tokyo, went to a Okonomiyaki ((お好み焼き) place and ate good food. Kinda fun that you pay and also has to cook your own food, but it's social and really good (and apparently kinda simple).

All in all: An awesome trip! \^_^/

試験

Finally is this week over! Sometimes it feels like I only have time to study, of course it's not true at all I've got plenty of free time here too! But this last week on tuesday I had my first test here in japan. It was a test of probability theory and of course the class is taught in japanese. I was a bit worried and studied a lot for the test. When I then got the test I realized it was exactly the same questions as the examples we have had during class, some questions even had the same numbers. Which actually really good because the test was 1.5 h and if I wouldn't have understood the question I would not have time to translate enough to get it. Being used to 4 h or more on a test and then go to 1.5 h.. horrible experience!

It has started to get a bit colder here in Japan recently. Sure it is not as cold as in Sweden right now (4 degrees difference) but in Sweden you can always go inside and heat up. Here it's perhaps 18 degrees inside and people are wearing their jackets all the time. Of course there are some room where they have cranked up the airconditioner so it is instead really damn hot inside. Having a normal comfortable temperature hardly never happens here. Sadly in my room I have to pay for electricity so I prefer to wear a jacket inside right now, sadly it doesn't cover my feet doubt. Anyhow I'm getting used to it!

- Me

Riding a bike

Today I forgot a book I needed at home so I needed to easily go from university to the dorm and back again. Walking to the dorm from the university takes about 20 minutes one-way trip so therefore I asked to borrow Katta's bike. This is the first time since I came here that I've used a bike but thankfully I remembered how to do it. But pedling and getting forward is easy, adapting to the traffic and following the traffic rules here with a bike was a lot harder then I imagined. First I tried to figure out what the rules was, when I thought about it I realized, there is no rules here for bicycle. Everyone is cycling a bit everywhere, on the street or the sidewalk whatever feels more convenient in the moment. The only thing I did was utterly stupid was going on the right side until I remembered that it's left-traffic here and not like in Sweden. But I managed to survive my bike-trip somehow! I've been thinking of getting a bike for a long time but after this trip I am not that certain that it would be good for my health, with my normal high speeds and this lack of good roads would probably kill me. Some reconsideration is in place I think.

I was on a bus trip the last weekend, I'll try to upload most of the photos I took here later.

無限小

So there has been a while since i wrote something here, mainly because of a bit of internet problem. The dorm where I live has had some internet problem for a about a week. In the end the dorm personal knocked on everyones doors and told them to stop torrenting stuff in my building. Seems that people where downloading so much so the connection could not handle it. Oh and it's also very illegal here. I'm glad that I've internet again but I seriously feel like downloading stuff now. I was able to coop without internet at home thanks to internet at the university, don't know what I would do without internet!

Here in Chiba there has been alot of fun recently. Last week we had 3 weekdays of thanks to a school festival. The festival mostly consisted of the circles and clubs at the university selling food from tents but it was also some other activities. I was to a maiden cafe (my second time) and this time with some japanese people, it was a fun experience, especially because I was able to see some magic. One of the japanese guys asked the cute maid who made the food to use some magic to make it extra tasty! ^_^

Other then that I also witnessed when they gave out the prices for a contest for Miss and Mr Chiba, sadly I don't have any pictures of them and I also missed when they showed up their skills so I don't really know if the right people won, probably did doubt. 

Other then that there has been a lot of things going on here on the dorm with the foreign students, a lot of partys and other social gatherings and every day life here is really fun! Sure is a lot of studying too. My tutor is teaching me quantum physics (which is hard but interesting) but sadly I won't get any credits for that. My classes are going just fine if someone would ever wonder. 

some turtles living at the university

Apparently they needed some art at the school festival. I dont get art. 

Katta and Mihoko eating some random food, it was tasty!