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.