Soon nothing to do...

Wow! I’m getting bad at writing, please forgive me.
After this week I only have one week left, and then I’m free! I would like to tell you about how happy I am over my spring vacation, but I can’t. It’s too long, actually two months. I don’t know what to do? But I’m very happy about the fact that my brother and maybe also my cousin are coming to visit me. Only for one week, but they will love it. One of my friends, Eva, is also coming in April. It will be great to see her I miss her so much. In May my friend, Hanna, is coming to visit me and she’s staying almost three weeks! But I have school then and I don’t have as much time as in my vacations… Well, with Aron, Sasse and Eva coming I have something to do for two weeks but after that I don’t know what to do…
I’m happy about my first term here, I’ve improved a lot and it seems as I’m getting good grades (not that I care that much…ohh well, I do!).
I almost only have Japanese friends and many of them are job hunting now. Job hunting is when they go and look for work one year before graduating. Seems like fun but very stressful.
I wanted to do a research training period here but it seems at it doesn’t exist in Japan. I’ve tried e-mailing and visiting professors but no result. Tomorrow I’m asking one of my friends, Fumi, to help me write my letter in Japanese. And I also got a name of a professor from one of my other friends, Mika. She told me he might be able to help me. I really hope so!
People think I’m weird to rather work in a lab than go traveling but I really want to do something that has to do with biotech, even if I don’t get paid. I know, I think it’s my Asian genes. I’m not good at doing nothing, I get bored quite quickly. But as Pia said: “You have to make up stuff to do”. I can always study and go to the gym. I love the gym.

I'm back

Hisashiburi!
I’ve had a great vacation. My mother left this Saturday and I miss her so much. I hadn’t realized I missed my family so much!
We’ve seen so much of Tokyo while she was here. I think she liked it very much but I also think that Tokyo is very big and a little too loud for her. Tokyo is a city for young people and Sweden is better for not that young people. My mother fed me quite well while she was here, I’ve eaten so much. This week I’ve been to the gym everyday though. We went sightseeing, shopping and I also got to sleep a lot. I kind of needed that.
Now I only have three weeks with all my final exams and then my spring vacation starts. I’m free for two months and I have no clue what I’m going to do. One week I’m taking an extra course called “Science Journalism” but after that I’m free. I’m thinking of maybe traveling but what I would like to do most of all is to do a student learning period or an apprentice. But I’ve talked to so many professors and written to even more but the one’s I’ve talked to say that they don’t know anything about it and the others don’t answer my mails. I’ve written my e-mails in English but yesterday I talked to a student advisor and he said I should write it in English or get one of my Japanese friends to write it for me. I didn’t want to do that before because I thought it would be like cheating and making them believe that my Japanese is better that it really is (it’s easier to write than talk) but now I’ve changed my mind. So I’ve spent the whole day traducing it from English to Japanese. I’m sending them out next week, let’s hope I get a response. I’m glad that I’m a optimist and let’s hope I remain one.
I haven’t written much about how I live etc. so here you go:
I live in a building called “International student house”. It has two wings, north and south, I live in the older one with smaller rooms, the north wing. In the beginning I was afraid it would be awful because I’m used to the Swedish standard. But it’s all right. I wouldn’t want to live like this forever but a year is okay. In my wing there’s mostly Chinese and Korean students and we share a kitchen and the showers but I have my own bathroom. My dorm is 10 minutes from my uni and that’s quite good because some people have to travel one or two hours to get to uni. We are only foreigners in the dorm except one Japanese guy who’s volunteered to live with us and help us. I’ve heard he helps us a lot, specially the girls…
There’s also a lady living with us, Nakamura-san. She’s about 60 years old and I don’t understand everything she says but she seems really nice. She’s very hard when it comes to the rules we have in the house. We are not allowed to bring anyone in from outside for example. That’s a stupid rule if you ask me. Japanese society have many rules and many of them seem stupid to me but I’ve come to realize that they might be necessary. I mean imagine such a huge society such as the Japanese one, there must be rules if not there would be such chaos. The amazing thing is how no one breaks the rules, except the foreigners.
Now I have to continue doing nothing. Take care and I’ll write soon again.