Almost a backpacker

My friend Hanna left me this Friday after have been here for over two weeks. I had so much luck because my University was shut down for one week because of a measles epidemic. We have done so many things and now I’m totally exhausted. We went to Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe for four days. I liked Kobe the most but I was very disappointed about Osaka. I don’t know why but since it’s the second/third largest city in Japan I thought it would be awesome but it wasn’t at all. I wrote second/third since Yokohama is believed to be bigger than Osaka because there are about 9 million people going there from other cities just for working everyday. But Osaka is bigger if we look at the actual population living in the city. I really liked Osaka Castle though, it was beautiful. We went to Kyoto by bis and it was quite fast. When we arrived we didn't have a hotel but we found a really good and cheap one almost right away. It's very unlike me to travel without reserving a hotel before...it was an adventure, never done anything that crazy before ;)
Of course I showed Hanna Tokyo and she loved it. I organized a dinner in her honor so that she could meet my friends. We where about 20 people having dinner and she really liked my friends. Hanna also did me a favor because she got in an argument with a guy that I had invited who wanted to take me on a date. Now I don’t think he will ever want to take me on a date again! That’s great because I don’t want to date him at all. After the dinner we went clubbing. The first club we went to was located in Roppongi and it was really weird because about one hour after we arrived the music was shut down because the police was standing outside. It seemed as the club didn’t have permission to be open after a certain hour so they had to hide that they where still open. We wanted to dance so we got our money back and went to another club and Hanna was surprised since one of the guys we went there with said that it was a rather small club but compare to Swedish standard it was quite big.
I took her to different type of restaurants and places. I’ve spent so much money! We also went shopping and I’ve bought so many things. I was worried before because I hadn’t hardly bought anything here but now I think that I have maybe bought to much.
Taku also took Pia, Hanna and me to a Sumo game. It was an amazing experience and one old Sumo-san liked Hanna! He was a bit to old and fat ’cause Hanna kind of like skinny guys her age. He said she had greats curves for a vegetarian!
I’ve now been single for about two months and I’ve been confronted with a new type of problem that I haven’t had before (since I haven’t been single for about 4,5 years!!). I don’t know how to turn guys down. Before I could say that I had a boyfriend but now I can’t use that excuse anymore specially if the guy asking me out is a friend of a friend. It makes it even more difficult if it’s a Japanese guy because Japanese people almost never use the word ‘NO’ in their language. You have to say something that implies a no but I’m really bad at that. In Sweden you can say ‘No, I don’t want to’ but in Japan you can’t because it might be to direct and that’s being rude. My Japanese girlfriends have taught me that I should just ignore the messages or that I should say that I’m too busy. I’ve tried both ways but none of them works so I think I should go back to my usual mean me and just say:’ Sorry, I don’t like you’…