My winter vacation is coming up and my mother will be arriving soon! I’m really looking forward to it.
I passed my exams last week but I managed to get a cold. So now I’m sick.
I was feeling quite bad already on Thursday but instead of taking the weekend to rest I went to Andreas birthday dinner party on Friday night at a really nice Italian restaurant close to Roppongi. The food was very good and we had fun, I left early though because on Saturday I had to get up early to go to another city, Hakone, with Pia and Tatsuki. Hakone was great and we hiked and visited the warm springs, called spa. They’re divided into two sections, one for male and one for female. That’s good because you are completely naked. It was outside and you had the sky and the moon over your head. I think that the warm springs might have helped me getting even more sick because it was cold in the air and I was naked so even if the water was warm I caught a cold. This trip was a whole day trip so we came back quite late. On Sunday I had a French lesson with a new student. He doesn’t speak English or French at all and my Japanese is quite bad so it was quite interesting. In the end of the class he was quite tired and he told me that French is difficult. You can imagine that it is difficult for him because it’s completely different from Japanese. Things as feminine and masculine, plural and singular doesn’t exist at all in Japanese. He also seems to be a worker and not a academic so he’s not very used to studying, he didn’t seem very happy when I told him he had homework for the next class! I’ve made a promise to myself and that is to teach him French and make him like it.
After the lesson I went to the Swedish embassy for their Christmas bazaar. It is funny how I never get used to people thinking Swedish things and culture is exotic! There were many Swedes there but also a lot of Japanese people. They had varmkorv, lösviktsgodis and knäckebröd….
My karate club, Seishinkai, threw a party for all the new members on Sunday evening. I had a lot of fun, they’re so nice to us! Everyone brought something to eat, I brought a cake, and then we ate and talked. We had to introduce ourselves and after the introduction our captain, Maisa, asked the other members if they had any questions for us. And one of the guys raised his hand and said that he had a question for me. Maisa told him to ask me the question and then he asked me if I had a boyfriend! I started laughing and told him that I had a boyfriend but if he was interested in me he had to try to impress me in karate to convince me! (Lennart: I was just joking!!!!) And then we all laughed. Maisa told me not to listen to the guys in the karate circle because they’re to stupid and then she told them to be quiet. She’s so funny!
As you can see I didn’t have much time to rest but today I just have one class so I can take it easy. I had to cancel with Kai and Taku that I was supposed to meet. But I’ll see them as soon as I’m genki again!