EN vecka kvar

Det ar nu bara en vecka kvar tills dess att jag lamnar denna skola bakom mig.
Det har varit ett roligt och larorikt ar med klass 2-6, med fler vanner an vad jag haft i den Svenska skolan. det ser ut som om jag kommer att fa ta med mig nagra japanska mattebocker hem, vilket ar skoj.

Livet ser ljusare ut nu nar slutet ar nara.

God Jul och Gott nytt Ar!!


Jag har inte mycket tid att skriva nu, sitter is skolan som just slutat nu denna speciella afton, nar jag egentligen borde vara hemma med familjen pa olsta backe. Flickvannen vantar pa mig utanfor, sa jag far gora detta lite kortare an vanligt.

Jag och flera andra utbytesstudenter mottes upp igar, for att sedan splittras igen i flera smagrupper.
Min van fran var kara granne, Norge, och jag pratade om vara liv, om framtiden, om mellanting, om forandring, om kulturshocker och hur glada vi ar over att ha kommit dit vi ar idag, men att vi aldrig kommer att vara helt lyckliga i vara liv igen. Det marks nu, att den glada, naiva tiden av barndom ar borta, och framtidens morker ar allt vi kan se. Vi har forandrats. Vi saknar vara lander, men vilka lander ar det?
Jag ar inte Svensk, Hon ar inte Norsk, och vi ar bagge inte Japaner heller. Vad ar vi?

Vi forstar nu, nar tiden narmas, att vara hem aldrig kommer att vara lika mycket hem som forut, hur det i vara hjartans skogar, dar det alltid vuxit grannar och inget mer, har fatt fron fran ek och Japansk Lonn, som har slagit rot och vuxit till maktiga trad.

Nej, nu ar hem aldrig hem, och borta aldrig borta. Vi har forlorat vara lander, men har funnit oss sjalva.
Ingen som inte har gott igenom samma sak som vi kommer att forsta oss sa som manniskor gjorde forr. Yngre kommer att se upp till oss och vilja gora samma sak, aldre kommer att se pa oss och onska att de gjort samma sak. Alla tror att vi finner oss sjalva, vilket vi gor, men priset ar storre an manga vet, och om de hade vetat priset skulle manga farre vaga ut pa denna hala is.

Men livet gar vidare, och nu ar det trots allt Jul.

God Jul och Gott nytt ar Fran Japan

Pictures from everywhere!


Jul eller "Kurisumasu"?

Hej alla dar hemma och en varm bugning(las kram) till er i denna morka halvan pa aret.

Jag informerar eder alla om att jag snart ska uppdatera bloggen med saftiga, roliga bilder fran min skolresa. det kommer att ske imorgon eller nagon gang under det nuvarande aret, sa det ar ingen ide att halla andan. Jag har betalat pengarna for resan, har blivit frisk fran influensan, gatt pa ytterligare en dejt med flickvannen, kopt bocker(ni vet hur jag alskar dessa mirakel gjorda av papper), kopt 2 nya shinai(kendons bambusvard) eftersom dem gar sonder hela tiden(allvarligt talat ligger jag pa nummer fem nu) och jag ska undervisa alla ettor i skolan pa engelska i engelska imorrgon. Jag har kommit fram till att min Japanska bestar utav sa mycket Osaka dialekt att jag troligen kommer att driva min stackars japanskalarare i Sverige galen nar jag kommer tillbaka.

Dessutom har jag kommit fram till att ett liv utan dem jag alskar ar ett liv inte vart leva, och att jag saknar min familj i Sverige mer for varje dag som gar mot jul(personligen tror jag att denna saknad kommer mest fran det faktum att jag inte kan driva er till vansinne med julsanger som vanligt).

Min flickvan lovar att arbeta hart med att komma och halsa pa mig i Sverige, sa ni kanske far traffa henne personligen i framtiden(far far far?... Jag menar far far kanske rosta av tyskan lite granna^^).

Jag har haft manga oforutsedda utgifter pa sistone, och det verkar som om mer kommer att komma... Om ni rakar ha runt 1000 kroner(svensk valuta, men de kronor som kungar anvander ar forstos ocksa valkomna om ni osanligt skulle ha nagra av dessa liggandes i huset) sa far ni jatte garna skicka dessa, da jag maste betala mycket pengar for att fa tag pa nagra bilder som vara larare tagit pa oss pa klassresan. Sen har vi ocksa alla stallen som jag ar bortlovad till denna manad. Och varfor kunde inte min kara broder varna mig for att flickvanner ar sa roliga men ack sa dyra(fast jag borde ha forstatt det med en syster som Sarah).

Det ar mindre an 65 dagar(tror jag atminstone) tills jag star utanfor dorren och sagar nagot dumt i stil med "hej, har ni saknat mig?" och innan dess ar jag radd for att jag kommer att behova annu mer pengar, trots alla som jag redan kostat er. Och innan dess skulle jag vilja bli lite uppdaterad om situationen dar hemma("borta" nu?)

Det ar sant att detta ar ett brev om pengar, som ar uppenbart om ni kollar nagra rader upp, men det innehaller aven nagot som kallas "kanslor fran "borttappad, efterlyst, mojligen upphittad och an en gang borttappad" son till alskad familj. Anvand dessa som ved i dessa kalla tider till dess att jag ar hemma igen.

Och som en person som varje dag lever en outstuderad livsstil sa har jag ett ansvar till mina runt 6 fans att skriva lita fakta da och da, syster.  Men oroa dig inte. Jag dor inte av sjukdom har utan utav Idrott, Mattematik och Japanska.
Dessa kallas kort for MIJ, och orsaken till detta skrivs lite annorlunda, namligen som MIG. har konstanta skrapsar fran volleyboll, blamarken fran tacklingar i Amerikansk fotboll och ytterligare smartor fran Kendon.

/Med all karlek, Ha en riktigt trevlig Jul och vanta pa min nyarshalsning, Samuel


Sjukdom

Jag ligger i lagenheten och ar ledig fran skolan. Igar var jag pa sjukhuset dar det konstaterades att jag hade en feber pa 38.4 grader. darefter genomgick jag flera tester, bara for att komma fram till att det inte var influensa eller naturlig hottness som jag hade hoppats. Fick med mig en hel hog med medecin, som tas lite da och da.

en som andas in morgon och kvall, en som jag tar ett pilller av efter maltider, en som jag tar ett gram pulver av efter maltider, en som jag tar tva piller av nar jag har feber.

igarkvall lag febern pa 39 grader, men nu ligger den pa stabila 37.5 grader.

vet inte om det beror pa min enorma energi, men trots febern kanner jag mig inte alls sjuk. jag kande bara en kyla i kroppen som jag efter erfarenhet kopplat samman med feber och gick ned till skolans sjuksjoterska dar det, till bagge varans forvaning, termometern visade pa hog feber.

Utan min vetenskap hande det, pa exact samma tidpunkt fast pa andra stallen, att min flickvan och min vardsyster ocksa visade samma tecken som jag. vi akte alla till olika sjukhus vid samma tidpunkt och skulle ha mott varandra, om det inte bara vore att vi alla hamnade pa olika sjukhus.

Jag ligger pa vagen mot friskhet nu, sa det finns ingen anledning till oro. Trodde bara att min familj skulle vilja veta vad som hande har pa andra sidan jorden. puss och kram.


Kultur Festival


Vi har haft kulturfestival och haft otroligt skoj. vi hade ett spokhus, och jag var ett spoke!!
mina kamrater sade att jag var laskigast!! ^_^

Cosmos




Jag gick med vardfamiljen for att se pa blommarna vid namn Cosmos. dessa bilder ar tagna med vardfamiljens kamera.


Life goes on and on and...

Life goes on as normal(normal for ME, that is). Every day's got a start and an end. Kendo every day,swimming 3 times a week. don't have time.
will mail you real mail with a written story later.

Nara and Hiroshima

Been on a camp in Nara, gotten a girlfriend and speeding of for a visit in hiroshima, where I plan to grow a new set of arms so that I can play games twice as fast(and a extra head woulnt be so bad either)

Festival in Minoo


The dance club is on stage!! Had a great time during the festival and watched amazing dances performed by friends!! Ate some Thai food that our beloved hyperactive-Thailandish exchange student had bought(she was super happy when she found the tomyanggang-soup, which resulted in her being a lot super happier afterwards).
The photo is taken with my phone, so excuse the bad quality.

Cherio!

p.s. Still waiting, sis!

Updating only for the sake of updating

Just what the title says, cheerio!!

p.s. I read the mail sis, and I`ve put up trap doors al around the house for you.

p.p.s. Failed at uploading pictures

p.p.p.s. I will update later again... somehow

Happy Birthday Dear Brother Of Mine!!



Happy Birthday!!! I will give you a super cool gift when/if I return to sweden!!

Birthday Party!!



I accidently told my friends about my birthday when I told them that I had forbidden any phonecalls from home,
but all I expected was maybe a small "Congratulations" on the big day. How very wrong I was.
On my birthday, the day went on as usually, though I tought it a "bit" strange how suddenly everyone seemed to know about my birthday. People came and said congratulations from many diffrent classes.

But the real shock came during the Short Home Room, when the teacher entered with two(!) cakes. then the thing went completely overboard when everyone in class started to bring out their own gifts, cakes and sweets. Who would have thought that it would end up as a party?! And then when I arrived at home, I recieved another cake!! The day was completely awesome.

More coming soon! See you!

P.S The cake reads "Happy Birthday" in English and "Congratulations Samuel" in Japanese

Happy Birthday!!

Yes, I know that I am soon to turn 18 years old, and I will put up some pictures later to show you how it is over here, but now I am really busy with 6 hours of classes a day, 2 hours of dancing and 2 hours of kendo a day. I will have time to put up some nice pictures next weekend, when the bunkasai (sports festival) is over. Also, I would like to ask my ruthless parents back in Sweden NOT to try and call me (seriously). This also applies to siblings and lesser contacts (funny word combination, lesser contacts). I still think its kind of lucky that I am in Japan right now, since I otherwise would be dragged to a murky little bar somewhere and have a constantly refilling tankard in front of me.

I will tell you more later in another update. Bye!

I put some new shoes on



It was with a surprise that I recieved a phonecall today. I do not know who was most startled, me or my host mother, when my real mothers voice suddenly appeared in Japan through the complex network of cables called "The telephone network" and which spins around earth in increasingly wierd angles. So now I`ve got to update this page... again. I`ve got to admit that its getting increasingly hard to not write Japanese here, as I only write Japanese nowdays. Well, here`s the update.

Some days ago it was mothers day, or "haha no hi" as its called in japanese. I bought a green(!) flower for my host mother and tried to post a mothers day comment on this page, something that was efficiently stopped by an unknown error, probably due to the fact that the server and I are having problems in our relationship. I think that is because we are on diffrent continents, but since the Server won`t answer me I dont really know.

Also, a while ago we went strawberry picking. Both alot of fun and very good. Then we went i my host Grandparents place and had some BBQ. And since I now know how to play the ocarina with notes, me and my uncle played flute and ocarina together and once again I had lots of fun. My aunt is a caligraphy teacher, so I learned some tricks that I will use on my next Caligraphy lesson. And speaking of caligraphy, my teachers got a Swedish friend who gave him a book about runes, and he want to show me that. Its been a while since I knew how to read runes, but with all the Japanese signs around me I probably wont have time to learn runes again.

Oh, and for the Spring Field Trip me and my class went and picked even more strawberries and after that, even more BBQ. I used a trick that my dear brother Simon told me about long ago, when he said that "water boil att 100 degrees C and paper burn at 200 degrees C", I managed to melt chocolate in waterbath over(read in) an open fire.

Even though my Japanese isn`t so good I`m still understood somewhat, which is kinda good if you go in a Japanese school. And by following the old saying "When in rome, do as the Romans do." I learn a lot from just looking and listening.

In one week, I will have a Japanese test and maybe even math tests. Everyone(including me) was surprised when I understood the math we do in class. The Level is somwhere between math D and E in Sweden, which means that its really hard. I take two math courses, one hard and one easy. I understnd everything we do in the hard one, but nothing in the easy one. this is because in the easy class, the teacher writes so much Japanese on the blackboard and then erase it just as quickly, so I dont have time to translate it. But during the harder class, all we do is formulas.

Well, thats all from us here at the CNN headquarters in New York. Thank you, and good evening.

First day in school!





Yeah, today was my first day in school, and this first day included a speech in front of all students(My headmaster made me). I think my blood was completely replaced with adrenaline and my heart was like a big drum... playing a beat of 4/6.
And then, whereever I went, people stared at me. Girls silently watched me pass by to suddenly explode in laughter and super fast Japanese when I was almost out of hearing distance. And a lot of guys(and some girls) introduced themselves to me, but with my memory it was quite difficult to memorize their names.

A lot of people thought that I couldn'd speak Japanese, so people I met usually spoke i bad English... and continued to do so even when i replied in Japanese!  I also heard from my homeroom teacher that people were afraid to speak with me because they didn't speak English, and sometimes it was impossible to hear them no matter what they spoke because of the loud volume(Since it was a cleaning day, everyone Not cleaning was talking, so about a majority of all students was talking loudly to each other or staring at me from a distance).

(All of the major battles really occurred during the Genpei War. So we've got this interesting balance where we're trying to juggle between history, legend, and video game - hence giant crabs. )

A Threat!

I`m only writing this because of a threat made by a certain, violent, someone.   Anyway, today`s been great(until I read the threat...)!    I visited SUMA Aqua Life Park together with my host father. The things you see there are stuff from LEGEND!!(Notice the weak but still existing Kung Fu Panda reference, please).    Big fishes, otters, Sea turtles and dolphins! totally awesome!
Jump!!

I`m only writing this because of a threat made by a certain, violent, someone.
Anyway, today`s been great(until I read the threat...)!

I visited SUMA Aqua Life Park together with my host father. The things you see there are stuff from LEGEND!!(Notice the weak but still existing Kung Fu Panda reference).

Big fishes, otters, Sea turtles and dolphins! totally awesome!


Host family

Yes, im finally in japan!! Sitting here togheter with my host family in Ikeda, just outside of Osaka. this is the 3rd day ive spent with them. By the way, if you wonder why this is in english, it is because of my english/japanese keyboard(that and the fact that ive given this blogspot adress to alot of people from around the world).

This is all i can write for now, see you late!

Visumet är här!

Nu är visumet fixat. Enda att oroa sig för nu är själva resan.

Äntligen har jag fått mitt Visum. ^^ nu är det bara resan kvar.

Osaka, Here I come!!


Fick precis ett mejl från AFS som sade att jag fått värdfamilj i Osaka!! Yatta!
Med två äldre systrar, födda 86 och 91 kommer framtiden att gjutas med en ny familj.
Firandets tid är inne! Ta en semla och njut!

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