Road to Tokyo

My life isn't super-interesting as of now, it's basically school-work-eat-sleep. And watch movies and series.

oh yusss. My life is totes perf..

I also had an awesome Halloween celebration, but I still can't find that damn cam cable x) So party pictures will come later, as well as my new Galstar stuff! 

I'm now in the application process to get to Tokyo in less than 6 months! Huzzah! It's a pretty long application, but it's not something I'm surprised about. Japan, the land of bureaucracy :P

I'm super excited, I've got my passport renewed, photos taken, application filled out (halfway through)..

I can't believe I'll be walking around here in 6 months:

Waseda University 早稲田大学

Shinjuku 新宿

I can't wait!! I'm still not sure where I'm going to live though, I hope I get a nice apartment with my classmate.

Woah, September's gone already!

WARNING: Super long post!

So I've been super busy lately with my Japanese homework and such, I've had no time to update my blog as much as I wanted to. 

What has happened this last month? 

• School life
• Partying
• Went to Trondheim
• Seigmen concert

This month has kind of been super awesome, but also very tiring. Roller coaster deluxe!

• School life

So I'm now in my second year of my Bachelors degree in Japanese, and it's becoming harder and harder to keep up. But somehow I manage to tag along nicely, so no despair yet! :D

On a side note, from April 1st 2013, I will most likely go to Waseda University in Tokyo for a year long exchange program!! I'm SO looking forward to it, I've been looking at different courses I can take, and I've been looking at apartments... *squeee* So now I have to renew my passport, fill out the actual application and get all my papers in order! And I should start thinking what I'm going to bring.. Two suitcases is my maximum limit, I think.

I think I'll start a new blog about my life in Japan, how it's like to be a Norwegian in Japan etc. y/n?

• Partying

Yes, partying. I've been partying a bit too much lately I guess, my bank account says so, and my liver says so. :P But the parties we've had were incredibly fun! 

The weekend 14th-16th was crazy. Met gorgeous fantastic people, and I really wish I could go back.

 Anne came to visit! *heartheartheart*

 Bought new bunny ears, they're so fancy!

On Sunday Emilie and I visited Simon and Trond.

Pizza, movies, gaming and good company. Perfect hangover Sunday. ♥ ♥ ♥

Top hat!

• Trip to Trondheim

So I went to Trondheim the week after, and it was soooo good to see my family and old friends again! Hadn't seen mom and my grandparents in almost nine months, and dad and Rita in a whole year! Wow.. I was glad they all were doing well :)

On Friday 21st, I went to the house warming party of some friends of mine!

Haven't been to a more wild party in a long time, I think I'm getting old..

 My BFF Veronica and me!

 Susann and me, sooo good to see her again!

Samuel and me :D 

• Seigmen concert

Last saturday (29th) at another house warming party I was told Seigmen was in town, and had two concerts that weekend. I haven't listened to the band in ages, but it's one of my favorite Norwegian bands! I had nooo idea they were playing, and I was basically broke. I was super depressed that I couldn't go, but then the money spender in me said "You know what? You do have enough money, just get in line early enough to grab one of the last spare tickets.". So I did. 8D Stood in line for almost two hours to get a ticket, ran home and got properly dressed, and the I went to one of the best concerts I've ever been to. There was also a signing session at a record store earlier that day, so I got to meet them as well!!

 Yes, that's me and Seigmen. And yes, I look absolutely retarded :'DD

Yum.

So.

This turned out to be a pretty long entry, but now you know what I've been up to! 

I don't have any lectures next week, but I'm going to a meeting to discuss my stay at Waseda, so all the papers are in order :) Can't wait! I'll keep you posted ^^

Now, I have to get out of bed and make some breakfast, it's 2:23 already... -_- but that's Sundays for ya!

Fadderuka 2012 (Warning: Long post!)

Hello everyone! 

The past week has been crazy! 

When you're a freshman at a university here in Norway, we have what we call "fadderuke" (directly translated "sponsor week") before the semester really kicks off. I have been a sponsor with Thomas for half of the new "Japanese bachelor" students, and it was super fun! Basically the assignments Thomas and I had was to make the new students settle down, socialize and get to know each other! For most people (as true Norwegians), this involves a lot of alcohol.

Monday we got to know each other, and participated on a quiz night and air guitar competition! Later, we got drunk.

Jonas, Lasse and me (yes, I went full retard here)

Thomas, my co-sponsor

Boys from the air guitar competition!

Tuesday we had a "rebus race" around university grounds, and later got drunk.

Free BBQ lunch for the sponsors from our faculty. Hooray, free food!

Wednesday it was BBQ day, where we also bathed and got drunk later that night.

Ida and me in the water!

Thursday we had our pub-to-pub around the city to get the students to know the different pubs and bars better solving different tasks to gain points for best sponsor group (sounds like AA or something, lol..). We also had a theme for the night (which also gained us points), which was Zombies! Got drunk in zombie outfit, that's my third or fourth time, I think.

Group picture! I'm at the top :)

Two guys, one sausage ;)

Chan-chan, one of my "babies", in zombiegear!

Later we went to Burger King to gain some more points, and of course we ate zombie style!

Yours truly

Xerxes and Siren

Siren and Sparkles

Friday was the last day, with a theme party! This years theme was the 90's.. haha XD I dressed up like a Spice Girl.

Sadly I didn't get a full body photo of my outfit, but here's my make up and hair!

At Thomas' place for a preparty. Insanely lots of people.

Colgate with my fur jacket :P

Me and Thomas' group seemed to really enjoy themselves, because at the last Party I actually won the title the facultys best female sponsor! Aaah oh my god I did not expect that! Thanks to my lovely bunch *heart*

I also got a looot of goodies from winning that title!

Me posing with my prize 

The stuff! 

I got: 

• 1000NOK (~170USD) gift card at Galleriet, a shopping mall
• Face essentials, body scrub and lip balm from the Body Shop
• 100NOK giftcard and a phone strap from PlayCom
• 4 free bowling series From Bowling1
• 10 tanning 20% more time cards from Brun og blid
• Bezzerwisser minigame
• Free pizza from Peppes Pizza

So.. not really a small prize, I'm soo happy! 

Now I am completely beat, with a soar throat, destroyed liver and a wounded knee. Perfect week, in other words! :D

These last few days...

These last few days have been uplifting, I always get so bored when I have nothing to do during the summer holiday.. 

Last weekend I went out both Friday and Saturday; Friday to a house-warming party for a friend, and Saturday, a last-night-out with Emilie before she moved back to Andenes! I'm going to miss her. 

The day before yesterday some friends and I were at a new fancy café with gorgeous furniture and a luxurious look. I ordered green tea and macaroon, delicious!

Yesterday I didn't do much... but I made something! I made a "klippekrans", a sweet kind of kringle with sugar and cinnamon :) I'm not the baking type, but I really got this one right! It was tasty as well, so happy ^^

After that we went to Bergens biggest shopping center, Lagunen, where did some shopping and ate at McDonalds. Everything was great :) I bought a pair of high waist shorts in dark denim, and a SUPER cute dress from Kappahl, from the childrens department XD All good-good. Had a nice evening too.

Today I had some friends over to help me clean out my closet, and tomorrow I'm applying for a job at a costume store! Aaaaand meeting a good friend from Trondheim, can't wait to see him again :D 

Wow I hope this entry wasn't too boring, haha. I'll try to post some outfit shots with my new shorts! They are gorgeous! :D

FUCK YEAH JUNE

I GOT AN A IN JAPANESE!

Waaaah I'm so happy!! Hard work paid off, looking forward to the next two years to get better and better!

Now only the culture/history exam grade is left, I hope I get at least a C! Main thing is that I at least won't fail. Thank god XD 

AND

I found a new place to live! 

Susanne, Emilie and me are moving in together in august. We saw the apartment yesterday, the guy who lives there now (he was kinda hot lol) showed us around, it even has a back yard! It's a bit small and expensive, but it's in the middle of campus right in the heart of the city! Super practical (and now I can wear heels when I'm out on the town ;D)

So yeah, can't wait to move all my shit closer to the city center :)

June has already started to become the best month so far this year, I really hope it'll stay that way! 

The only thing I have left now is to find a job!

Hiatus..kinda.

Aaaah I want to blog so much these days, but I can't since I'm in my studying-all-day-all-night-for-the-finals-mental state.

The first final is in exactly a week, and that's the japanese final. hat should go pretty smoothly.

The second, and the most dreaded, is the 15th, and that's the japanese culture and society final. It's not that the contents are boring (well, some can be..)... It's more that the books are written in academic english, which I'm not very good at, so I lose my concentration every other sentence. So we've had some study groups and talk about the different topics (ie. politics, different eras, work life, women etc), and that loosens up the tension for me, and it makes it a lot easier to read afterwards! Yaaay.

Aaand now I'm procrastinating by updating my blog and writing about how good a student I supposedly am.. haha.

I'm guessing this could become me:

Anypoo, off to uni! *swoosh*

Some easy shopping + Life in general

So I haven't been blogging in a while, and I'm sorry for that! I've just been so busy with school! The finals are just around the corner, and I have to study everyday if I have a chance to get a B or an A :) 

And where the exam stress goes, the breakouts follow! My skin has been so horrible these last months, I've never had such bad skin before.. So I decided to use a bit of money on skin products to battle this war that is going on in my face, lol!

I bought:

Skin79 sweet honey sugar

I hope this can exfoliate my skin a bit, my nose is a mess, haha!

I'm a bit unsure of the "honey" part because of the smell, I'm not that into *~SmElly gOodNesS~* and that shit. I just want to fix my skin, and not end up like a lavender-honey-vanilla-strawberry-nightmare.. haha.

So we'll see! XD

Lioele Blackhead Zero Nose Patch

Now this I'm looking forward to use. I've had blackheads since the dawn of time, an I thought I'd just try now and get rid of them :) I've read some reviews and most of them were pretty good! 

Lioele Waterdrop Sleeping Pack

Aaah I'm so excited to try this! Almost every review I've read says that it's very light and cool on your skin, I hate it when moisturizers get all cakey and greasyfeeling.

Now, that was my small amount of shopping 8D 

These last days I've been sewing, and I feel incredibly inspired! I thought I'd lost it, but my sewing mojo has returned ;) I made a black oversized sweater and I "fixed" my Runwaydreamz shorts. I will try and get a picture of them, but I don't have a decent camera at hand atm.. My next project will be a babydoll dress in black twill, with lots of black pon pons, so excited to see what the final result will be! 

Recent photos from my life:

Curly curly! I love my fringe here, I must try to do it again soon ^^

Out with friends 
From left: Susanne, Thomas, me and Emilie! 
Lovely bunch :)

CAKE! 

I indulged in this a few weeks ago. It was amazing :D

Dolled up for a night out :) I look a bit tired here, but.. yeah I was tired. 

Had a great time though!

Now I will return to my job application writing, I reeeally hope I could get a decent job this summer! :) Wish me luck!

I'm not dead!!

...I promise XD

I've been soo busy with school and such after I got home from my Christmas holiday, I haven't had time to blog or anything!

Eventually I will post some pictures from Christmas and up until now, but I'll do i when I feel like it.. There's too much for one post XD

So, the news are:

We've finally started the Japanese lessons, I'm not exactly struggling yet since I know some Japanese already.. But I'm guessing it'll be hell from next semester on!

I'll be making a sales post pretty soon, I kinda spent wayyyy too much money on alcohol last Friday, haha... hah..ha.....ah. So yeah, selling stuff soon!

AND!

I've dyed my hair RED! Finally!

I actually don't have a decent picture of it, only webcam pics:

It's a more light, vivid red, but it's so dark here right now x)

I can absolutely not find my lashes nor my lash glue.. So annoying! I wanna do full gyaru make up again soon, but I don't want to do it half-assed :p It's been so long time since I last got really dolled up, I just haven't had time! Or just, not being bothered by actually doing it.

But now I've had enough! Next Saturady some friends and I will celebrate our dear Anne, who turns 20 years old that day! And we will be fabulous!!

(almost) DONE!

Aaaaah, nailed my linguistics final! Aaaaight!

*high fives self*

I celebrated with my japanese class at TGIF! Everyone ordered food except me, I just ordered a Bloody Mary ;) Because drinking alcoholic beverages at 1pm on a thursday in a family restaurant is cool! Durr.. It was tasty though, I needed it BAD. Was shaking due to no sleep + too much caffeine + nicotine + sugar, so some alcohol made everything better XD

Some pictures:

Me some days ago, I'm so hooked on this hairstyle, the bun. Perfect for lazy students XD

At TGIF with my class:

Lasse with some strawberry-milkshake-kinda-thingy.. It was huge.

...and Anne took his cherry!

Me and my Bloody Mary, lol :D

Thomas, Jonas, Birgitte, Lisa-Marie, Alexander and Emilie waiting for fooooood

Had a good time, but it was also nice to get home and have a *cough* 4 hour nap since I didn't get any sleep last night..

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It's now 3:24 am, and I FINALLY finished and submitted my philosophy paper!

TIME FOR BED.

My first finals, a series.

Over a week until linguistics final exam, this is going great! Also, I have lots of time to write my philosophy paper!

Coffee intake = Almost at zero.

3 days 'till paper is due, 2 days for linguistics final exam. Starting to feel the pressure. Coffee intake = ridiculous.

omgomgomgomgomgomg the finals are todayyyyyy omgomgomgomgomg ._.

Coffee intake = Replaced with energy drinks and sugar

Paper is submitted, exam is DONE. Day finally over after "some" cans of Burn, chocolate milk, candy, alcohol and cigarettes.

So yeah.

One more test, and I'm done. I'm going home for Christmas on Monday night, can't wait to see my good old mates again! ♥♥ And! I'm taking care of Sam and Susanns kitty called Snickers for Christmas! I hope she will be happy during her stay, it's been a long time since we've had a cat in the house!