Due to loss of inspiration of writing, I'm not going to update anymore here. (which I haven't done recently anyway either). But thanks for stopping by, and you might find something interesting stuff written.

Thanks for following the time it was up atleast.

/Viktor

みなさん、こんにちは。
久しぶりですね。さいきん私はたくさん物をした、だからこのブロッグに書きませんでした。ごめんね！

Hello everybody,
It's been a while, hasn't it. I've had tons of stuff to do lately,
so that's why I haven't written on this blog. I'm sorry!

To start this post off, i'd like to begin to say that there was almost 4 months now since I moved to Japan. 4 months since I stood at the airport in Sweden, waving off my family and my friend Victor. A big reason why i haven't had the inspiration of writing is because I felt a lot of homesickness, but luckily it seems like it's slowly getting better.

Recently, also, I've had plenty of stuff to do in school. It's quite crazy how much our teacher expect us to do in this short amount of time. We have tests every week, both Kanji-tests and general Japanese grammar and word understanding tests, and it's really tough to make it. Also, they expect us to have a score of 80/100, which for me is a crazy amount. Because all of this study, I sometimes forgot what I'm doing here. I'm here because its my it's my dream to be here and to have fun.

Learning a language is really tough, I've realized it more than ever being here. But learning Japanese was tougher that I had imagined. I seriously have to reboot my brain and start thinking in a whole new way. To give it an example how different the grammar that is used in Japanese are, I'm going to write a sentence in both English and Japanese to show you:




これはお母さんがスウェーデンで作ったケーキです。
Japanese : This mother Sweden in made cake is.
English: This is the cake my mother made in Sweden.


So, you could basically say that the Japanese grammar is the exact opposite from what I'm used to. Writing, is not really that difficult, but speaking is very difficult.

To top this, our teachers have decided that we are going to have a speech in Japanese. We are only allowed to carry a paper of key words, and then, speak for 3 minute straight in Japanese. ちょうめんどくさい。
Funny thing is that, I can barley do it in Swedish, and now, being forced to do this in JAPANESE, it's just crazy.

To leave the depressing subject, I'm gonna write a little bit about what happened yesterday. It might have been one of funniest night since I got to Japan. A Swedish friend who have been in Houkaido for 5 weeks, skiing with his friends, came to visit me in Tokyo before they where going back to Sweden. We did, as we usually do when we go out here, order nomihoudai (飲み放題) which means that you pay like ￥2000 and you can drink until your heart can tent, or you pass out... After we finished eating and drinking, it was time for karaoke! When we came down to the streets, the people there were crazy. We met plenty of people and had some funny conversations. When we finally got to the karaoke, it began as usual, people singing like crazy and just making a mess. But the difference from this time, compared to the others, was that we ran around visiting other peoples karaoke rooms and sang with them. It was tons of fun! Returning home later, was a bit difficult tho... (Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos of this night.)

Well, ultimately, despite all the studies and homesickness I really love being here. I know I'm doing the right thing, and I'm not giving up!

I'm not going to say what I will write about the next time, because I have no idea when I'll find inspiration again to write. But there will of course be more posts. 約束だ！(It's a promise!)

じゃ、またね！
Ja, matane!
Until next time!

I realized today, that it has been ages since I last updated my blog, so here is just a fast little update!

The reason for my absence is because there has been so much in school before the Christmas holiday that I didn't have time or energy to update the blog. The last 2 weeks I had about 6 tests that I had to do, so there wasn't anytime for other things than studying, neither did I have any inspiration what to write about. But now, there will be changes for 2014! YAY!

As you would say in Japanese 
"明けましておめでとうございます、今年もどうぞよろしくおねがいします"
Reading:  " Akemashite omedetō gozaimasu, kotoshi mo dōzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu "
Translation: " Congratulations to the new year, and I hope you will treat me good this year as well "


From the 23 of December, I had a swedish friend of mine visiting me here in Japan, and we had an awesome time together. Since I hadn't really had the time to explore Tokyo before, we did all sorts of amazing things during his stay. And I was planning on writing about these things in the upcoming posts, sharing pictures and what I thought about these places! So stay tuned for that!


And I suppose that's all for this update! I'll see you!

When my memory is still fresh, I felt like I wanted to do a fast update about this amazing evening I just had!

So, this Monday, everybody in our class decided that the upcoming Friday we wanted to do something together for the first time, and the plan came through! So today, after school, almost everybody met up outside school and went to eat (韓国の料理) South Korean food! And, for 2 hours you could eat as much as you wanted and also drink as much as you could.
Eating was not really a problem for anyone, except for me because some of the food was too spicy. The drinking part, seemed however to be a bit more difficult for the Asian people.
In Sweden, I suppose I'm kinda known as the person who can't stand alcohol, but here, in Japan, I'm not bragging if i'm saying that I was on top- after like 2 or 3 beer they all were red as tomatoes in their faces.

After we had eaten our Korean food, we went (of course) to Karaoke. And to my surprise, the guy that I have been sitting next to these 2 month in class, was incredibly good at singing opera. I NEVER imagine that he could even sing, it was very funny and surprising!

After our karaoke visit, some people dropped out. So the people who still could stand on their legs, continued our journey, and we went to another bar! At the bar, we continued eating, but this time, I suppose you can call  it Japanese food. (日本の料理). But when you are at a bar and eating Japanese food, you basically only eat vegetables and drink. Cabbage seems to be one thing that Japanese people are really fond of, and I have to agree. Drinking beer and eating cabbage is a very good combination. By this time, I have to say that everybody dropped their national tongue, even English, and everybody tried to only speak Japanese. It was kind cool, that everybody, even though our lack of experience and education seemed to understand each other.

After the last bar, the time had started to run away, and I had to start thinking about my trip home. Because in Japan, even the trains in the weekend the trains stop going quite early. The last trains goes around 1 o'clock in the night. So I went to the station, and took the first train possible. When I came to my first stop on the way home, out of the blue, I met one of my housemates standing at the train stop. This was very surprising, both because we were on 2 totally different places this night and also because meeting someone you know in Tokyo, is kind of low odds.

After we met up, we jumped on a totally full train. In Japan, during night (and especially on weekends) the trains are so full, you kinda have a hard time to breath. We were squished in between everybody, and didn't even bother to continue talking about the subject we were talking about. When we got about half of the way to our next stop, the guy who where standing in front of me where starting to acting kind of weird, and suddenly, his head fell. Me and my housemate (Fredrik), realized that this guy needed help to wake up, so we used some force to lift and wake him up. When he finally woke up, we were at our last stop on this train. When I let him go, he was falling like a tree falls when you cut in half. On a super crowded tree, I've never seen so much space available during these type circumstances. People moved away from him, like he was a bomb about to explode. He really passed out. But I had the feeling that he also were supposed to leave at the station we arrived to, so me alone, lifted him up, and dragged him out of the crowded train, and when we finally got out he kinda woke up and said "Sumimasen" to me, which can be translated into "excuse me". I was laughing kind of a lot inside.

And after that incident, the nights' crazyness kinda ended. And now I'm here, writing, even though I should be asleep!

I suppose that's the end of this text.

See you next time!

じゃ、またね！
(ja, matane)
(see you next time)

  

Hello ppl! :)

I just felt like I wanted to do a fast update..
Another week has passed in the paradise, and December, Christmas has already come. Feels a bit weird because I'm so used to be wearing my winter coat during this time. I'm still walking around in my skin jacket and I can't say that I freezing at all!

Though... The biggest problem is the Japanese houses. Since they aren't isolated at all, it gets so freaking cold inside. Walking around in the mornings are the worst thing, because then you're not really wearing any clothes. Because of the temperature inside is around 15~ degrees it's get's a bit problematic.


This week has been a quite nice week to be honest. Even though it's a lot of studies and we are moving very quickly forward, I'm still having really fun in school. I really enjoy the atmosphere and the teachers are doing a very good job! In school, we have 3 different teachers, and they are also very dissimilar. One, that is kind of old, around her fifties, but she is really kind. She has a bit of weird accent though, and when she is pronouncing "が、ぎ、ぐ、げ、ご" (ga,gi,gu,ge,go), the whole class is like a big question mark, and have no idea what word she just said. A funny example is when she is saying "ごご" (gogo) which is the word for PM, she is pronouncing it "gong-o", our class never seems to understand what she is trying to say...
One of the remaining two, are quite young.  I don't really dare to guess, but she should be around her thirties. She is the funniest one I suppose, and she is always in a great mood. She always talks about herself and paint ugly pictures trying to explain words, usually we get more confused when she has painted them, but everybody likes her! The last teacher, I think I like the most. She remind me somewhat of my mother. I don't really know how though, to be honest, but there is something to her personality that feels very familiar. She is also funny, and she inspires you to continue your study.

Speaking of school, I was suppose to have my first "real" kanji test this week, but the teachers' actually tricked us so we should study. I was kind mad, because I had done lot's of studies. But well, now i know the kanjis. Here comes some exemple of the ones i had: (there were 48 on the test)
学生校会社自時車年半友木火水金毎日月飲食読書。。

2013, November 22, Thursday.

  

After a little earthquake this morning, I kinda realized that it's time to do a little update on my blog. And it came to my mind that I haven't shared with you how I'm living. So i think this is a great opportunity to give you a little tour around my house where i'm living at. I'm currently living in a town outside Tokyo called "Toda" that lies in a prefecture called "Saitama". To get in to central Tokyo from here, takes about an hour with train. To my school, that lies in a place called "Takadanobaba" it takes approximately 30 minutes depending on how many people that there are on the stations.

It's a nice and calm town and you can actually walk alone on the streets. The only down part about living here is all the Chinese hookers that walks around during night, thankfully t
hey haven't bothered me yet. From my house it's about a 3 minutes walk to the nearest 7 eleven. The bigger supermarket is about a 10 minutes walk from here, and a 10 minutes walk to the other direction lies the train station.

J&F Plaza in Nishi Kawaguchi  is a guest house where about 25 people live. Most of the people are able to speak English but some only speak Japanese. My staying here so far has been absolutely perfect!

Nishi Kawaguchi Guest House,