Golden week was great but I didn’t study as much as I should have done (as always). At least I did the grammar but I still have all the kanji and vocabulary left. I had a grammar test this week but I don’t think I did very well because I didn’t know even half of the vocabulary! It’s impossible to get the particles right if you don’t know the words…At least I feel more confident that I did when I first started studying Japanese. I’m not the worst one in my new class and in the end it’s all about what you’ve learned. During golden week I also had a lot of fun and spent way too much money. On Wednesday I went to one of Pia’s friends dinner in Omotesando at a Brazilian buffet restaurant. They had an amazing salad buffet so it was worth the 4200 yen we paid. Afterwards we went to a bar to have some drinks and we finished the night screaming at a karaoke place. The day after I went to Asakuza and shopped for some Japanese traditional things that I want to bring back home. We also had dinner with Tatsuki ad his friends that took us to an amazing Japanese restaurant in Omotesando where we ate until e were so full that we couldn’t walk. I think I’ve told you that I wasn’t feeling very well before and because of that I haven’t been eating hardly anything so I decided that I had to start eating fish again. In the beginning it was very difficult and I still only eat shrimp and sometimes salmon. Now it’s much easier for me to find food at restaurants since fish is very popular here. After the dinner with Tatsuki and his friends we went to a bar which was quite interesting but very dark. The day after I rested the whole day because in the evening I was going to have dinner with Pia and some friends. We went to a Izakaya in Shibuya where Pia had preordered a tabehodai (all you can eat) but I was quite cranky and said that I was leaving if I didn’t get a vegetarian tabehodai. This is quite difficult in Japan since the term vegetarian hardly exists. But Pia handled me great and got me some veggie food (no fish!). After dinner everyone where talking about what we where going to do. I was as I said not in my best mood so I said that I was going to go home if we didn’t go clubbing. So we went clubbing. It was great fun and we danced all night.
Andreas and I met a really handsome waiter a few months ago in Shinjuku and I felt that it was time to see him again. So Andreas talked to him and decided that all three of us where going to have dinner together in Shinjuku on Sunday evening. When I was on the train to Shinjuku my phone rings and it’s Andreas that called and says that I have to meet the waiter by myself because he can’t make it. I paniced of course! Andreas had of course planned this all along because he knew I wouldn’t agree to see the waiter by myself. I couldn’t do anything except than meet up with him in Shinjuku and tell him about the situation and he smiled at me and I saw in his eyes that he understood that it was a setup. I felt so ashamed and it wasn’t my fault! He took me to a nice Izakaya and we had so much fun. We sat there talking for over 5 hours and in the end he said that he felt as if we’ve known each other for very long time. Hahaha! I’ve always been good at talking! I discovered that he’s not really a waiter. He was just helping a friend and in real life he works at a company doing something I don’t understand. He’s 30 years old and works in Roppongi.
I’ve also been teaching quite a bit and I really like my students, they’re so great. One of them is very special. He’s a businessman that works in Shibuya at a company but he’s also a shrink. I only meet him once a week but it feels as he knows me so well. Better than many people that I’ve known so much longer than him. He says it’s because he’s a shrink and that he knows how to read peoples minds. He told me that I was very special because I look like a girl but behave as a man! He also said that I have the character of a man and that it might lead to difficulties for me but that it’s also what will take me where want to go. It might sound as bullshit but when he said it, it made so much sense…I only know one thing for sure and that is that I don’t EVER want to be a man!
I got a haircut today and I think that it looks okay. Last time I cut my hair I started crying because the hairdresser cut of all my hair. This time I brought one of my friends, Yuko, and she explained to the hairdresser how I wanted my hair and most important: how I DON’T want my hair, I don’t want it short, I hate short! I also brought a picture from a magazine and he looked at it very carefully and cut it just like the picture. After the haircut I went shopping for a few hours with Yuko and I bought a pair of jeans. Japanese women are very small but since I’ve lost weight I can get into their big sizes. I went to a shop and asked if they had size 28 and the girl in the shop looked at me up and down and said: “28! We don’t have that big sizes here! It’s to big”. 28 in Japan is about 26-27 in Sweden…
Next week my friend, Hanna, is coming to Tokyo and she’ll be here for about 3 weeks and I don’t think I’ll have the time to write anything while she’s here. So I’ll talk to you in the beginning of June!