６番♪ Sweets-Paradise, Harajuku, Art Museum and some other stuff!

Hey guys!
I am back again :3

Actually I really wanted to write earlier but I didn't feel to well - and also I was kinda busy!
Anyways let's start!

I would like to talk about Sweets Paradise! I went there two times by now - first I went to Shibuyas Sweet Paradise and the second time was in Yokohama ♥
Actually I prefered the one in Yokohama but anyways  ...
Do you know what Sweets Paradise is? It's like all you can eat cake restaurant! There's not only cake though - you can get noodles, pizza, salad, pudding and so on and so on - it often depends on which shop you go to though!

When we went to Shibuyas Sweets Paradise I didn't feel well and hence couldn't eat too much ... and also I didn't take any pictures! But the second time when I went to Yokohama I was able to eat a bit more and ~ i took pictures!
Here you are ♥

 Waaaah, it was awesome!!!!!! There was one cake that tasted like german apple cake! OH MY GOSH I was in love - I really wanted to eat the whole cake!!! Sadly I can't eat too many sweets recently... I really don't know why but somehow I always feel sick when I eat too much sugar....anyways! It' was great ♥♥

And as we are looking at food right now - I have some more pictures! Let's get going!

 

Tayaki!! I got one in Yokohama - if you ever went to Yokohama don't forget to go eat some! The best shop is next to the station! If you wanna go just let me know! ♥ mine was filled with a cheese-cream! Oh my gosh I would kill for that one ;O;

 Takoyaki-Balls :D But no there is no squid inside! It's some kind of cake! It has a pretty interesting face,right? :D

 There was vanilla-cream inside! It was reeaaallly tasty! My sister and her friend got it in Kyoto!

 Noooom! This is my breakfast ♥ I got coffee (too sweet though ;O; Why is everything sweet here??) and yoghurt with cereals! Nom!!!


OK let's get to the next one!
I took some pictures from Harajuku! ♥ Harajuku is one of the fashion-parts of Tokyo! It's really nice and you can get a lot of interesting things there- CDs,Fashion, Accessories - everything! And the best crepes of the world! I really love Harajuku! Though it's toooooo crowded on weekends ♥ This is why I prefer going there on weekdays! Oh and also there is a big DAISO! A 100 Yen Shop :3 I got a loooot of things for my flat from there :D *laughing*

OK next- we went to an ART-MUSEUM !!! I will just show you some pictures - it's hard to describe and I think you will enjoy pics more than my blabla ;)

OK I think this is enough for today! I am already getting tired again and my back hurts a bit so I think I will just leave my desk and lay down in bed and ... uhm ... I dunno :D
Tomorrow classes are going to start and actually I wanted to study a bit before that but well ... I didn't :D Also I wanted to go out to get some stuff more my nails as I didn't do them for some time but yeah ... we will see :D

Anyways!! Talk to you soon guys ♥♥

YaYa♥

５番♪ Some information about Aoyama Gakuin and Insurances

♥ Dear Ladies and Gentlemen ♥

I am back!
With some news and some things I would really like to talk about today!
 Let's start with university!

As I already said I am studying at Aoyama Gakuin right now - and I really like the university until now!
Sadly I am not allowed to take any pictures -sorry for that - if you have time please make sure to visit the campus in Shibuya!!!
Everybody may go there and it is awesome! Looks a little bit like some park!

Anyways let's talk about the orientation!
First of all we met at a room above the IEC - it was pretty easy to find even though the campus is quite large!
We got to meet the staff  - and their english is just amazing!
Over three days we got to know them better, got to know our tutors, wrote a placement test and got information about living in Japan, mobile phones and insurances (I will come back to that later again though ...)

All in all I think the orientation was quite good!
Of course there were some things we didn't get any information about but .... can't be helped...

the Placement Test was pretty difficult - or at least this is what I thought.
I really felt like a loser at the end of the test. I can't even tell you why (oh maybe because I forgot all of my kanji in a second?! :D) but I was quite sure I failed.... though I got into level 3- which is pretty good as I will study for JLPT 2 from now on Oo
I am already afraid though ..
There are 4 japanese classes I have to attend to and also culture and politics and japanology...

We also got a calendar! :D
I took a picture - actually I kinda like it! I will show you the pic next time though! stay tuned !At the "fan-shop"(i call it like that) you can get everything with aoyama gakuin logo on it - for example a HELLO KITTY!!! I really want to get that one :D


Sooooo yeah
I needed to get back to the City Hall to get my National Health Insurance card and I was pretty nervous - as you might know japanese people tend to hate talking in english and it was not different at the hall - and for me the japanese spoken there is pretty difficult!!!
I had to wait for about 20 minutes until I got to the desk - luckily the woman there was really nice and helped me out a lot! And also she talked in a way I could easily understand!
As a matter of fact after about 30 minutes I finally got my card and now i am officially in the insurance

BUT

and this is a big but here! So this is the problem:

When we arrived in Japan i kinda cought a cold (or something like that) and instead of getting better it got worse and worse and I really wanted to see a doctor as (mainly in the evening) my throat is swollen and I can't breath properly anymore.
As I wasn't part of NHI I would have had to pay a lot of money so I waited and waited until I was able to get the card -

as my japanese is not too good until now I really wanted to meet a german or english speaking doctor which is why i tried to get information about international clinics - and I got them 

a lot of them (not to say most of them) don't accept the NHI!!!!!!!!!

I was really shocked when I got to know that =_=
I was so angry

Because normaly you would like to understand what they are telling you, right?
Ok  so in the end I decided that I would even go to see a japanese doctor BUT then i got to know something else:

in a lot of clinics the doctor has exactly 3 minutes time for a patient with NHI insurance ! you might say "that's a lie, right?"
but it is not. it is the truth. without the insurance you may have about 20 minutes.
With NHI you can't even get examined. If you would like to have this "special service" (excuse me?!) you need to tell them before and pay more at some clinics - like.. seriously?! what the fuck ...

Anyways it's not all clinics but a lot of them.
So I decided on two and wanted to make appointments there but then I got a mail -

A few days ago I wrote an e-mail to a half-japanese doctor in tokyo and asked him for advice.
He was really helpfull and told me to come on friday - they accept NHI and I don't have to pay too much even though I am there for the first time! (a lot of clinics charge money if you go there without medical letter....)
so i only have to pay the 30 percent AND will be able to understand what the hell is going on with my body :D

I am really happy about this development - as you can see I was really stressed by this kind of thing. It's not like I feel deadly ill but I am just so tired and feel a bit weak and my throat hurts so I just want to get things done - and I think it's good to get to know a doctor in case you need one again ....

so anyways please consider one thing before coming to japan : which insurance is the right one??

If you go to Aoyama you need to join the NHI though but remember:

• the insurance pays only 70 %
• you might be charged some "first time visit" money at a hospital
• international hospitals often don't accept NHI
• if you are member of the NHI some international insurances will not work anymore
•  

Ok that is all for today!
I am planning on updating tomorrow or the day after tomorrow again!

Stay tuned ♥ 

４番♪ First day of University and some presents I got before

Hey guys!

Genki?

So yeah I went to university today - but more about that later!
First of all I would like to show you some things I got from my sister who went to Kyoto just recently!
She and her friend went to the Ghibli-Store and this is what I got :

 IT'S SO CUTE!!!! It's Jiji from Kikis Delivery Service and I really LOVE THAT CAT!!!!! I absolutly fell in love with it in an instance T^T I can't say thank you enough actually ;; *sobs*

Also I got something else because today I had my placement test, right?
This:

Sadly I think it didn't work too well in the end as I didn't really get too many things right in the test anyways. I don't have the result yet, but I really felt like crying after all.......


Oh and I got a letter from KOREA!!!! Thank you so much !!! ♥♥♥
I was really really happy when I got it!!!

Isn't it cuuuuute? I will use it when studying for sure - if I ever decide to study..... I don't feel like doing so at all =.=




Ok so ... I really wanted to take some pictures, but sadly I am not allowed to do so on the campus so - I will just tell you what happend.
So in the beginning we got our studentscards at the international office. Later we all went to some room upstairs to get a brief introduction of the ICEs staffmembers and met our tutors. Our tutors have about 2 or 3 buddys, which makes it a bit difficult actually.
But my tutor is really cute!!!! We decided on going shopping one day :D
Anyways they showed us around, but we didn't have too much time so we went to eat together at the cafeteria!
It was OK but not the best.... I mean ....well it was ok :D

After that we had to take the test. It's my own fault that I didn't study kanjis anymore so yeah well. whatever. but the other questions were pretty difficult as well and I think I didn't really get too much of what was asked.
I even had some kind of a blackout but that's (as well) my own fault...
in the end it's like that and we will see :)
I don't think we will be in the same classes though, which makes me kinda sad actually but...yeah, as already said - it's my own fault in the end :)


So yeah there's not more to tell!
I went out with a good friend of mine, a friend of his and my sister and her friend later to get something to eat - which was really nice, but as I was already pretty tired my head started spinning after some time - this is why i went home!
University starts late today so I can take a proper rest anyways -
I have to recover from the test- shock - it still makes me cry (well nearly) when thinking about it.
If I had studied more I would have been in a better level, right?
But it can't be changed now......
It really can't...


Well anyways :)
That's it for today!
Have a good day/night and don't get lost ! (in your thoughts :) )

♥

♪３番♪~ My room and some things I really don't like + some funny stories!

I am back!

More or less! So right now it's the first time for me to be alone in my own japanese flat ! And I have to admit...for me it was a better feeling to be in my german flat.. this is not about the flat! 
Not at all actually, but you might know that feeling of being helpless...!
Because if ANYTHING happens I THOUGHT I would know what to do in germany but actually that
's not too true as well... 
anyways, when I call someone in germany, they will come over. This is what made me feel safe.
But after yesterday I recognized that it's more or less the same here. I have friends here and my family who is helping me whenever possible. And of course I have neighbours - not only japanese ones but also from all over the world - this makes it so much easier for me I guess.
Still I feel a bit insecure. But I think that's just normal.

Anyways, I changed my room - I mean I moved the interior!
It didn't feel right somehow so I wanted to change it. And I did - but this is what happend!
I moved the bed and it started to smell awefully.....at first I thought it might come from the outside or.. I dunno! But shortly after all of us recognized it - it smelled like GAS!
Of course we opened the windows immediately and left the room - shut the light etc.
and then we saw that there was a gas instalation in my room BEHIND my bed!! And I didn't know about it!
What really sucks is that if the switch was moved only a little bit Gas would come out.
This is why it's so dangerous, isn't it?!

Ok so this is one of the reasons why I changed my room style completely......
Well this is finished now.
You can see my room here :

 As you can see my desk is in front of the window now. It used to stand where the bed is now!

  This is my room! It's pretty small but I like it like that! I would like to have something in front of my bed but in winter I might buy a hot blanket soooooo it might stay like that for a while now :)

Oh right now I am eating all day long - I use to do that whenever I feel bad or something like that so yeah ... I should stop that :D I won't fit into my trousers anymore hahaha

Ok let's talk about something else!
I went to some concert - sorry I was not allowed to take pictures ;)
So I went to see Calmando Qual again ♥♥ Some of you might know them ! So there were only about...20 people at Takadanobaba Area. When we came inside Hibiki was still there to talk to their manager - he looks pretty different recently!
Anyways we met another german girl and enjoyed most of the concert.
She was there for SaTan! i don't really like them but can't be helped! But as the german girl couldn't speak japanese at all I promised to help her talking with him.
Mr.SaTan is really nice actually!

And just bet whom I met some days later on my way home at my station? ;)
You got it? *laughing*
It was really fun!
Oh and I think I met Kouki from D=Out ;D I can't say for sure as he just crossed my way but as he stared at me, I really thought "wow, that's kouki for sure!" Hahaha


Ok , I think that's it for today!
I REALLY have to start studying tomorrow! Only 4 days left until my PLACEMENT TEST ;O; *crying*
But tonight I really just want to sleep.... I am tired...
So... yes :3
Please write a comment!♥♥

♪２番♪~a glimpse of tokyo!~

Hey ! I am back !

It's still pretty hot here in Tokyo... about 32 degrees every day and as I rarely slept I feel quite tired and exhausted again. Today my body showed me that I need to rest from time to time.... how annoying...
anyways!
A lot of things happend! But let's try to start at the beginning! This Post will be PIC HEAVY!(and food...xD) So if you are not interested -better skip it :)
If you are - please feel free to take a look ♥♥

First of all - though I only got it some days ago- GERMAN BREAD!!!! My hostmum got it for me ;O; I looooooveeee it!!!!

 This is what I am drinking a lot here in Japan...it's not too healthy though ^^,, as you can imagine :D actually nearly everything is really sweet here in japan! even water somehow.......

 This is something that some of you might consider....weird? ;D It's yakisoba pan, which means there is some sweet bread filled with fried noodles :D Sounds pretty weird, right? But it's really good! I like it a lot actually! Bambi got it when we arrived at our hostel!

 And this is what I got! It's Okonomiyaki-Pan! Okonomiyaki is kind of a japanese styled pancake with vegetables! It's pretty good! But it had too many fish-flakes on top ^^,, Don't like that too much :D

 Oh and here- ASAKUSA! We stayed there for about 9 nights and uhm .... enjoyed our hostel ;) (that's a lie though :P) Anyways - this is japan - everything's cute!

 And this is a picture of the Sky Tree! It just opened last year? (I think?) and it's the highest tower in Japan - though I prefer the Tokyo Tower after all ^^, it's just more romantic!

 Oh and this is what you find wandering around at Asakusa at night :D It's cute so we took some pictures xD

This is Strawberry Cheese-Cake Frappuchino! And it tasted great! Though a bit toooo creamy for me ;)

Takoyaki! There's some squid in it! I like that a lot :D

Oh and we went out for real food twice :3 and it was awesome! you can see noodles and rice with tuna!

and curry-rice ♥

melon ice cream

FRUITS!!!♥

And thiiiis is shibuya! I went there with Bambi as we really wanted to do some shopping at 109! In the end we decided on buying only a few things and left early....as we were pretty depressed we bought the following - I took coffee!

Ok I think this was enough for today :D I still have a lot of pictures and I really want to show you more! I think i might upload the next part tomorrow and maybe I will even write some more ;) haha I am sorry for all the pictures but there are so many things I want to show you so ... please stay tuned!

I will talk about my flat, what I bought for it, whom I met and what I did at the office soon! 

See you later and take care ♥

 

♪１.♪ I am still alive!

Hey guys!

What's up?! Sorry for being this late again ... 
Actually a lot of things happened until now!
As you already know we arrived in Tokyo on August 15th after a pretty tiring flight.... well actually I was one of the fortunate ones to get some sleep!

We headed to our hostel as soon as possible and.... oh well .... we weren't too satisfied with the hostel to be honest. But okay....whatever,right?

Sooo we spent our time together in Tokyo with visiting Harajuku, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro and other places but I will talk about that (and show you pictures) later, as I don't have the pictures with me right now!

I am in my flat now and my sis and her friend are here for a visit - which means I am keeping myself busy as well and thus didn't study at all - oh and I didn't finish my room as well!

I am planing on doing so tomorrow.... and also I will get all my pictures together and make some pic-heavy posts!

So please stay tuned and come back tomorrow!

Thank you ♥