Me and a few friends rent a car and went to Nikko the other day. Nikko is a place I've heard about ever sense I came here and I've wanted to go there for a while. It took about 2-3 hours to get there. We walked around and looked at temples and nature until it closed at 3.30. We ate Yuba Soba at a resturant later. Really good!

On our way back we decided to drive up a mountain with the car. Bad idea. Interesting though. A bit up, we noticed that the fog was quite thick and tried to turn around, but a passing driver told us that it was a one-way road so we had no other choice than to continue on. Everyone in the car was nervous and a bit jumpy. After a while, you could only see the reflexes on the moutainwalls on one side and shadows of trees on the other. It would had been fun if anyine had filmed it, no one were quiet. Everyone was relieved when we started to go down again. But the way down wasn't very easy either. There were a lot of curves! A LOT. I think it took about one hour that little side-trip. And after that we started going home. I want to go back some day, we didn't have time to see everything. Maybe next year?

If you ever go to Japan, I think you should take a trip past Osaka. We went there this summer. Osaka is kinda like Tokyo, just few people and a bit, I dont know... freer than the people from Tokyo. And one ting you'll HAVE to go to is Universal Studios Japan! If you've been to and liked Disney Land, you will definitely like USJ! You know the film company right? That's the park theme! I'm a movie freak so I was in heaven haha!

After all this is Japan, and Japans number 1 anime/manga is One Piece. I'm a big fan of OP and well... that we found the thing above made me kinda hyper x) If you haven't seen or read one piece, do it! It's great.

Now of to studying... I have mid-term tomorrow and on wednsday and I don't really feel that safe at all.

I'll tell you about a really great thing about Japan. The fantastic Purikura (プリクラ). If you don't know what it is, I'll tell you. You see the picture of me and my friend Tuva above? That is Purikura. Purikura is short for the japanese expression Purinto Kurabu, a word borrowed from english Print Club.

So what exactly is that? It's a big photo booth with a loooot of colors that you walk in to with a few friends. Usually outside there is a sign that says Girls only, or if a guy want to be there he must bring a girl. You take 6 different photos, with different backgrounds or you choose a theme. When you're finished you go to a little place at the side of the photo booth were you can paint on the photos. You see the hearts and the date on the photo above? That is what you do there. It could be totally crazy if you wanted to!

I like photos so you could guess that this is one of my favorite things in Japan :3 You can fix the light and the size of your eyes, you can put on eyelashes (like the first picture) and change the color of your eyes or hair. Well... I'm to blond so the machine doesn't recognize my hair as hair xD

In some machines you can get the whole chart to the computer. Usually you print out all of the photos and get one or two mailed to you phone, but in some you get all of them. Like this one:

Todays Pic: Musashiseki, Tokyo

Osaka, Umeda Sky Bldg.

Todays Pic: Horse riding in Takadanobaba, Tokyo.

Fujisawa, Enoshima.

I went to Vietnam a few weeks (months xD) ago but I still haven't shown any pictures! *Hit my self on the head for being forgetfull* these are a few taken in Vietnams biggest city, Ho Chi Minh. I love the second picture... "Safety first". What safety? That working place is as ansafe as it gets -.-

Todays Pic: Ouji, Tokyo.

Todays Pic: Max, Mui Ne, Vietnam.

Todays Pic: Mui Ne

Long time no see! It's been a while, and a lot has been going on. You probably ask this "Is she still in Japan after all that has happend?" And the answer is, YES I still am! I didn't want to leave this country and the city that I love so much, and I'm taking the chance to stay here! After the big earthquake a lot of my friends went home and I started thinking about going home too, maybe I really shouldn't be here... But I didn't want to leave! So me and a few school mates started planning a trip. First question was "where should we go?" We don't have much money but we thoght about Okinawa or maybe Osaka, but then we descided "not Japan!" and it would be eather Thai, Vietnam or China. The tickets to Thai and China was reaaaaally expensive so we took the Vietnam flight instead.

Vietnam... I knew nothing about it, but I was told that the people there would be nice! That was not the case... Aaaaand the wather was bad when we got to the beach >_< I've nerver been that happy to get home to Japan again after two weeks in Vietnam. You really do apprishiate what you got when you see developing countries have it like. Cooking in the street because they didn't have a kitchen in there ...."house"? And sleeping in the actuall store. I might have felt bad for them if they treated us more than a person you can get money from.

But now I'm back in Tokyo again, with the earthquakes and Fukushima Daiichi. It is said that things will be fine in about... 9 months or so. But anyway, now I'm back in school and I'm really trying to learn stuff here... Haha it's hard but the teatchers are really good so I'm OK!

I'll try update atleast with pictures from both Vietnam and Japan everyday and get going with the Japan365 project! Have a good day! バイバイ！

I don't think I've ever been as scared before as yesterday and last night.

Everything started as always. Lessons, kanji, studies. How far away all of that seems now. We had eaten sushi and desided that we didn't want to go home yet, it was after all friday. Me and Wilma went to Shinjuku and after Wilma had bought her stuff we walked around fot a bit. We went to Nishi-Shinjuku and walk around without a plan. We walked over a big crossing and I felt the ground shaking a little. "Wilma, it's shaking", she looked up and felt it too. This was at the beginning of this big crossing, we didn't really think about it that much, it has been a few small earthquakes this week. But it wasnt just a small earthquake this time. The time was 14.46.

Before we were over the road the houses had started swaying and and the ground was shaking as if we were on a ship in a storm. Me and Wilma grabbed hold of each other and stood there, looking around. People were crying and hugging their friends and families. The skyscrapers around us were swaying as flagpoles in a hard wind and it felt like they would fall on us any second now and it almost seemd like the ground would crack. But thank god it didn't. At least not in Tokyo. I've never been that scared before. The shaking was so bad that you felt like you couldn't even walk properly wihout falling over. All we could do was to wait until the shaking stopped and everything would be like before again. When the shaking got a bit calmer we didn't want to move. There were a lot of people around us, I saw many paniked faces and many girls were crying. A old lady asked us if we were okey, she told us that it was the strongest earthquake that had hit tokyo for many many years.

After maybe ten minutes the shaking stopped. We started to walk again. We weren't really sure what to do. I've never seen Shinjuku like this before. There were so many people on the streets, but it was quiet, no one was screaming "irashaimasee" and no music was heard. Every store had been closed and every buildning evacuated. We walked for a while, waiting for the stores to open up, before it started again. This was the aftershock. "No! Not again!" said Wilma. But it wasn't as bad as the last one. But it was bad enough. When this one was over a group of evacuated office men asked us if we were alright. We were. Just a little scared. We stayed with them for a while. It felt nice to have them there. They were calm, and that made us a little calmer too. We asked them when the train would start again, I wanted to get home. He said that it usually took an hour before it started again. But he hadn't counted on all the other aftershockes. The train wouldn't start going again.

We counted to maybe 5 or 6 aftershocks before we decided to try to get home. My home was impossible to get to if I didn't walk for 2 or 3 hours, and I would never be able to find the way, a taxi was out of question, 100 000 of other people tried to do the same so we walked home to Wilma. We got home to her after walking for half an hour or so. We cheked the news and tried to get in contact with everyone. Awful pictures was showed on the television. The tsunami had hit other parts of Japan. Thank god I'm living in Tokyo. Thousands of people died and more are hurt or missing. Even more people lost their homes. The aftershockes are still coming as I'm writing this. Don't let more people die! This was the 7 worst earthquake in the world, ever. I will never forget about today. Please let all those people who are looking for their family and friends all over Japan find them, unhurt. And please, let this be the last one. I couldn't sleep all night. Every time I felt an aftershock I got worried that it would start again. If something like that had happend in Tokyo, even more people would had died. I will never forget this black day.

Todays pic: Lee-san, Takaomountain.