Winter Break!

Finally winter break!

It feels like it been a long time now without any real time to rest, so finally is there a break. My plans for the break are of course celebrating christmas and new year. But now lets not start about the future, lets start with what has happend in the past! It's been a little while since I updated and I have done somewhat noteworthy things recently.

I've been to the universitys international festival, with mostly consisted of presentation of 3 countries. It was about Mayar and two other countries that I now forgotten all about apparently. Most noteworthy about the festival was the belly dance performance, and the meeting afterwards where countries gave out free food. At the gathering thingy afterwards some school class was there with their teacher that runed around dragging their students to us foreign students there, wanting us to convince them to go to Chiba. I just tried to stay away from that, but damn that teacher guy was persistent! That was a fun day anyway.

I've also visited Ikea once more, this time with Katta (the other swedish at Chiba) and then some other swedish people and together we ate Christmas dinner at Ikea. There was all the traditional swedish food that are supposed to be eaten at Christmas so I did not have to miss "Julbord" this year!

Furthermore I've been to Ageha, a night club that several people claimed to be the biggest one in Asia. Sure it was huge, it had 3 dance floors I believe and a pool. Sadly none was swimming in the pool. Before we went to Ageha we had a nomehoudai (all you can drink) in Shibya. Noteworthy was the table next to were me and my friends sat that consisted of what I believe was middle school teachers. I've never met drunk teachers before, I have to say I hope I'll never see that in Sweden neither. But it sure was fun, they even wanted to take pictures together with us. All in all it was a epic night with good company and good music at the club!

In one of the weekend I was also at Sakura, a city close to Chiba. There we went to museums and visited old samurai houses and also an old hospital museum. It was summer weather during the trip and I got to see a lot of different cultural thingys, perhaps not my biggest interests but I thought it was really interesting!

Winter

So now there is finally winter here in Japan and the christmas decorations has appeared in the stores. The decorations are mostly the same as in Sweden, except that the english greetings varies from Merry Christmas to Many Christmas and such alike.

Because the winter has nog gotten here I was today to Ikea with my tutor and got myself better bed wear, nothing wrong with the blankets I've been using thus far but nice with some real stuff. The Ikea in Japan is exactly as the one in Sweden, about the same floor layout, the same food shops and yhea everything is the same. The only different thing is that here you can buy Glögg that actually has some alcohol in it at the store! Probably not as good as the regular ones in Sweden but it's still Glögg I guess. I also got myself some gingerbread, just because I could.

The thing the japanese people claim to be winter is actually very close to swedish autumn. Its about 10 degrees in the days or less and the trees hasn't even lost all their leaves yet! I have been warned that will get colder to about -1 degree but still that is not that cold. This winter gives me great joy when hearing about all the snow and -10 in Sweden, cant say I miss that at all!