Waves washing over me

The other day I went to the beach with Bell, Ida and Morten! It was my first trip to the beach here in Denmark this whole summer, so I was kind of excited. The water was still pretty cold, and we all had to rush under and then just get a move on, to keep warm.

Bell hadn't been to a beach since she was 10, so naturally she was so happy to see ocean again. She wanted to build something in the sand, so we nominated Morten to be covered in it. He kept breathing heavely, so the sand kept cracking, which was sort of annoying, haha. It's really been a long time since I made a sand person.

Morten went from mermaid to merman, haha. Oh, he's gonna kill me when he sees I've posted these... Nah, not really.

It was really fun even though it was kind of cold - I'm used to Japan, so Denmark IS cold - and I was happy to at least have made one trip to the beach this year.

School is kind of hard. Of course I knew I'd be hard to get to know a whole new class, but I'm just exhausted when I get home. I'm not usually shy, but when I go to shool a knot of nervousness form in my stomah and it holds me back... Will they like me?

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Dreams and new classmates

I watched Inception the other day. Everyone here in Denmark is so hyped about this movie, so I was very eager to watch it after my return from Japan. We'd thought of watching it over there, but since it was expensive we decided to wait.

Since I had heard nothing about the plot before watching it I won't spill the beans about the story.

I thought it was good, but not as awesome as the newspapers and my friends say it is. The special effects were awesome, but the plot lacked a bit in my opinion at some points.

Speaking of special effects. There was this one scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a sort of no-gravity sphere. It was so nicely done and it didn't seem fake at all. That was probably the only time during the whole movie that I was amazed.

I thought it funny how many of the actors have appeared in the new Batman movies. Like Michael Cane and Cillian Murphy (LOVE both!)

And there's also something else. Joseph looks SO much like Heath Ledger. I had heard there was a dude who looked similar to him from my friends, but when I saw him it was really quite a shock. And to think they played together in "10 things I hate about you".

I started school today. And on a new school at that. I was very nervous on my arrival, but I guess it went all right. I'm anxious to return tomorrow in both the good and bad way. So many new faces to learn...

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Japan Tripping - Tokyo

Okay, sorry for picture spaaam but I just wanted to get out of Japan-entries.

I went to Tokyo Disneyland with my friend Morten, who was in Japan to see the WCS. We met up at Tokyo st. and took the subway to the park. It was much more fun than I had expected it to be and not as hot as I'd feared - though it didn't seem like Morten agreed with me on the latter.

We didn't get to try/see all the things we'd planned to, but that didn't really matter. We saw the two parades and I tried a lot of rollercoasters that I just did not want to try. Morten loves the scary ones so of course he dragged me with him on those - I was shaking like crazy at the end of the day because there had been so many nerve-wrecking coasters.

The evening parade was really something. I thought it a whole lot better than the one in Paris, but maybe that's just because I don't remember that one so clearly. All in all it was a great day and it was soooo nice to see another Dane.

My parents and I went up in the Tokyo Tower and stayed there from about 5 untill it was dark, to see how the city lit up. It was really interesting. It just didn't really look 13 meters taller than the Eiffel Tower, haha.

We also went to Ghibli! This was a trip I'd been looking forward to. I'd really tried to push my expectations down because I'd heard a lot of disappointment about the museum, and it worked! I came with no hopes and was amazed. It was really magical and inspiring.

As ticket to the museum you receive a piece of film from one of the Studio Ghibli films and I got Haku!!! Jesus, I was happy. I totally adore him and my parents got some boring ones.

I was really happy we went there.

Of course we also went to Tsukiji. It was kind of a bad experience because we felt like intruders at an important work-place so we went away quickly. But they had some crazy fish! That squid tentacle was as big as my dad's arm. Yikes!

I wanted to go to the Yoyogi Park flea marked and my parents tagged along. Turned out to be a great sight with about 300 stalls and ordinary japanese people. I got a lot of great things here - my parents had to tell meto stop buying things. It was also great that they, the Japanese, didn't discriminate just because we were foreigners - they told ud the same prices as they would have given their fellow countrymen.

I got my hair colored! It was my first time so I was scared that the color wouldn't be as I wanted it to be. And he actully fucked up. The color is so off the one I wanted. I wanted a caramel/orange color and it turned out reddish purple. I was sad at first but now I don't really care.

We watched the fireworks at Sumidagawa river the last night. It was SO crowded. We'd thought there were many people for the Gion Matsuri in Kyoto, but this was just crazy! It was like the whole of Tokyo crammed in one place. We also got to be pushed into trains when we went home, that's how many people were there.

Approximately 20.000 fireworks was displayed in 1.5 hours. And it wasn't bad fireworks at all. It was really impressive. Still can't beat New Year evening in 2000 here in Denmark though.

From the bus on our way to Narita. We were ready to go home.

... but that wasn't how it went. Our flight was cancelled so we had to take a different route home. Instead of 10 hours in a plane we spent 16 hours in two planes and 2 hours waiting for the second one. We were so tired when we finally reach Kastrup airport, only to find out that our baggage hadn't come with us from Rome. We got them 3 days later.

It's good to be home.

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Time passing faster than the lightning striking

Wow.

Guys, sorry for not updating. There was just so much trouble on our way back home from Japan and the last days over there I really wanted to just experience everything without having to rush back to my computer and blog.

And then the days kind of ran by only leaving spooky fog behind. Haha!

from http://project405.wordpress.com/2008/06/

I hope you understand! I'll do a post tomorrow about the last week in Japan.

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Japan Tripping - Hiroshima

Next up - Hiroshima for 3 nights.
I don't know if I've mentioned that this is my 2nd trip to Japan. On my last trip two years ago I went to Tokyo, Osaka, Nara, Kyoto and Hiroshima - so basically all the places I'm visiting again this time. Last time we only had 1 day in each city but Tokyo, so I really wanted to get to know them all better.
On my last visit to Hiroshima we just went to the Peace Memorial Museum + park and I only got to see the city as the one which was bombed. This time around I wanted to see it as something else.



We went to Miyajima and the Itsukushima Shrine located at the island. It took 1 hour to get there. I was very positive at the beginning of our trip - the nature was mind-blowingly beautiful etc. - but the excitement quickly faded.




We had dropped down on the one place more touristy than Kyoto. Shops with horrible souveniers were all over the place and prices on everything was compleately bogus. The only funny thing was the special signature cake for the area. Filled with either chocolate, beans or all sorts of different creams. And you could see them in the making - also very touristy, but whatever.
The shrine is famous for its gigantic gate and that wasn't as gigantic as I'd thought. Still very neat, though.



We went back to the city and went to se park and Peace Museum. I'd seen it before and it made a huge impression on me last time, so there wasn't a lot I couldn't remember. But it was still nice to see again.



We stayed at a minshuku, a small ryokan, which was a cool experience. The hosts really took us in and cared for us those days we spent there. It was very different than all the other housings we had stayed at. Our hostess, Kazuko-san, was very kind and took us to a caligraphy class.



My mom wasn't very good, I was all right and my dad compleately ruled. He's always good with that kind of stuff even the first time around - that's what you get from having a graphic designer as a dad.
The first one's my dad's, the secong my mom's and the last one mine.



Before jumping on a shinkansen back to Tokyo we went to the Mazda Museum. Zoom zoom! It was very fun! We got to see a part of the assembly line and got a whole lot of information about the making of a car and Mazda as a company. They own their own port in Hiroshima, jesus!



The "future" part of the museum was A-W-E-S-O-M-E! So many fierce cars. This one was very batmobile-ish. UMF, if I could get a car like this, ahha.



Funky homemade figurines. They're made of scrap metal, and as far as I know they're from the movies "Alien"?? Haven't seen those..

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100 already

Wow, I suck at stuff like this. Paint, I hate you.

A couple of days ago I was drifting along at 80-something followers, maybe thinking that I'd hit the 100 in 3 months. Now I'm here, after so little time. Jesus guys, I'm not prepared for such a large amount! Haha :)

I am glad that you all like my blog enough to follow me and I always love receiving your comments !!

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Japan Tripping - Kyoto, days ???

Next up was Kyoto for 4 days. We had planned to be there while the Gion matsuri was nearing its peak and the parade and I am very happy we did so. Also, I finally lost my sense of dates and days.



The first night we went to an evening dancing show at the Yasaka Shrine and went down to the stalls a kilometer from there. It was so much fun and packed with people. It took an hour or so walking 500 meters because the masses slowed you down. It was fantastic and I was so happy haha. It was like taken out of a manga <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkap39yPoMmow5HHCChxmJiDUQjWnN1DyQPA86ovDitiGTWWmfvoV-qvtRPMFEAUn8wOBIe-4pVhyphenhyphenP1QkaD91nubPPRNELI_CKL44-rFYOvX1vf-s5XtWgyfeMGAd_1TuVR7O8qTC-Now/s1600/IMG_7989.jpg">

The parade was kind of boring, though. Compleatly anti-climax.



We also went to the Manga Museum. It was great! We also went to the special exhibition. I learned quite a bit, which I thought impossible. You wasn't allowed to take pictures indoors because of copyright which sucked, but oh well, I had a sweet time nevertheless. I touched the very first edition of the first Inuyasha ! Dream. come. true. And I didn't even know I wanted to do that.



Kyoto st. was sick. Architecturally speaking. It was very sci-fi.



We went to the Fushimi Inari Shrine a little outside of Kyoto. It was really great. It was way better than I would have believed it to be! Ultimate gateway experience. It was like hundreds and hundres of meters of those gates spread up the whole mountain. We only walked 2 km up the mountainside though, because we weren't prepared for that, haha.
It was reallt fun walking fast or running - it felt like being in a rollercoaster. Sort of anyway.



Did anyone say big pearls?



Of course we also went on a all-day tour of Kyotos largest attractions. We went to Kingakuji (SO pretty in the snow), Kiyumizudera and Nijo Castle. The last one was the only thing I hadn't seen before and I really liked it. It features a lot of whole lot of nightingale floors (they sing like nightingales when you walk on them, built to prevent intruders entering the inner chambers) and they were so fun!



We also took a day of. Being on vacation is pretty hard. It was very nice to be well rested and stay indoors for the warmest hours.

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