Well... net too much. The blog is slowly coming to it's end as well as my staying in Japan. While time is passing by I try to do things and hang out with people as much as I can... that's why I do not update daily my blog. Just like as it was at the end in Finland...
Anyway. It is not that easy to suddenly live in a dorm. I mean the guys are really nice and awesome but sometimes it is too much if every single second you are with people and everytime you arrive home in 10 mins someone knock your door. But it's just bitchin' about nothin'. :D I enjoy my time with them.
So.. Last week. We've had a a trip to Kyoto and Nsra and Osaka. Yeey! It was really really good. And expensive. :D But here everything is expensive. Anyway it was nice. Kyoto: Lot of shrines, temples, sculptures... architectural masterpiece. Really awesome. But. Between the temples the city is not really nice. Dirty buildings and stuff... look like Kispest district in Budapest. So I didn't like it that much. Nara is awesome. Small town with a lot of temples and shrines and with even more deers. Deer is kind of saint or sacred animal around these temples so people don't harm them... they just live in the town. Amazing. They just go into the shops, and live there like people. Usually in Hun if you see a deer you are excited and thrilled cos it is somewhere in the forest. Here it is just totally common.
And Osaka is a big city with not too much sights but a beatiful castle. The company were my labmates, the polish girl, a Japanese guy and a Chinese girl. It was ok and nice. The Chinese girl lowed shopping. :D But it was a nice company. Not too much party but lot of sights.
Aaand I dunno. I'm slowly running out of money so I cannot really do anything in my free-time. :D We've had an international cooking event. That was nice. I didn't cook anything but many people did and we were a lot and had some fun in a rented kitchen. We also had yesterday a Japanese cultural day what was really cool. We learned some symbols in Kanji, made a fan for ourself (what I successfully lost already) and later we went for a ship which provided amazing view from Tokyo. And the drinks were for free so we got pretty wasted. Later we wanted to go to a club, a big disco... but I've lost the others so I've ended up in the dorm. Today we'll check out some folk dance festival and afterwards next week I1ll have my final presentation.. And slowly people are leaving Japan so farwell parties are coming...:S
Bahh. Yesterday I wanted to go to check out the fish market which supposed to be one of the major sights of Japan... but it was closed. So it was totally worthy to get up at 7 for this sh*t... Anyway I did a massive 9-10 hours long sightseeing trip. What have I done? Visited two really really beautiful gardens, checked out there the ponds, the sights, the plants, animals... it was really great despite the 10000 degrees. And I also got an audioguide in English language so it was pretty interesting. BTW I realized one thing. Usually the elderly Japanese people are more friendly than the young ones. I mean... for the younger generation I think we are just a kind of trouble... language difficulties and stuff. For the pensioners or volunteers (lot of pensioners work in museums as volunteers just to show to other people some wonders of Japan) we are kind of interesting. I mean they have seen more things and I guess they are much more interested in other cultures (probably BC most of their time they lived only in Japan... which is also true for the younger ones. But the older people I guess can see more proper that this is not necessarily good) and that's why. I found a very kind old men who even tried to speak in Hungarian with me. :D It was really nice
Afternoon I checked out two museums. The first was a trap... it was mostly calligraphy which is totally boring for me. It is just Japanese writing marks and signs... which I totally can't understand. I'm sure it's kind of art but for non-Japanese it is not working. Anyway the other was the national gallery... which is tricky. It is really big a beautiful building. It's free but inside most of the sights are pics from "local heroes". Local painters and stuff. So for 0 jen I could see around 2000 (!) paintings and drawings. In the end I was really really tired. I had the opportunity to check out an exhibition also from the Edo era... but after 9-10 hours of walking in 35 degrees and 10000 % of humidity around 10 kms in Tokyo... afterwards I just wanted to go home and die peacefully.
I couldn't. I just arrived when my lads knocked my door that a Spanish guy has his birthday and we have to go to celebrate so I have to leave the dorm with them ASAP. Ok. It was an epic fail. The organizers made a ridiculous mistake. They set a place for the meeting point where previously we have never ever met. And in Tokyo it's not working like anywhere else in the world. Every subway has 2-3 substations, 4-5 exits, infinite amount of people.. you just cannot find your lads in an unfamiliar place. Cos for sure you'll get lost or wait 5 meters away and in the crowd you cannot find your friends. Sooo we cannot find the Spanish guy. so after some searching we returned to the dorm and while I was supertired I just went to sleep.
Today I needed to get up at 7 (again) to check out the fish market (again). It was ok. I mean... loads of dead fish and guys who are cutting them. It was interesting but if U R not so fishg33k it's not that big stuff. Later I've checked out an art gallery and the famous Budokan arena...which is a Judo and Sumo hall but many famous metal and rock bands recorded there DVD's. So it was nice.
And in some minutes I'll go to Kyoto I'll arrive back on Tuesday morning. Kyoto, Nara, Osaka. Yeeey! I still have to pack my stuff we'll travel with nighbus. So no blog and online activity for some days. But if you cannot live without the blog... here are some picks from the past few days:
It was four of us. The German boy, the Irish, the Belgian and me. Rest of the people have already visited Nikko during the the weekend... but we couldn't afford the travel on the IAESTE event for 15000 yen. So we made our own trip.
So if you want to make a cheap and exciting adventure trip you should avoid two things: Paying for the transport and paying for the accommodation. I mean I know it's a horrible thing that we get adventage of some errors of the public transport here and cheat with the train tickets but travelling is so so so freakin' expensive that if you want to see anything which is just a lilbit far from Tokyo you cannot afford to travel legally. And about the wild-camping... well I don't know if it's legal or not but we really didn't bother anyone.
So first we went to Nikko which is part of the world heritage. 5 huge shrines, incredible buildings, structures, figures... it was capital and it has loads of historical monuments. All together in a nice forest. It looks really amazing it is just miraculous. Lot of traditional wooden buildings with details and everything and it's just crazy how nice it is. I'll upload pictures (more than 1000 I guess) soon.
From Nikko we hitchhiked to a lake 20kms away. It was crazy. I've never hitchhiked before... and despite all the bad things I've noticed about Japanese people, they are really friendly with hitchikers. We didn't need to wait for two long (10mins) for an elderly Japanese couple to pick us up and take us. They were driving a super luxurious Toyota I felt strange to travel with such an elegant car. And the lake... Wooow! It was amazing! It's in the top3 most beautiful views I've ever seen in my life (and it is a pretty strong list, trust me)! I've already uploaded a pic on facebook it was hilarious. Beautiful. We've found a quite hidden place with a wooden rooftop and a very clean, nice and fancy toilet so we've just camped there.
We arrived there pretty late so we just made some pics, walked around and while we felt really great in such a beautiful area, we've bought some booze and while we've had a nice talk we've drunk some beer till we felt asleep. I didn't have a tent and I had no room to carry and bedclothes so I just slept on the floor, on the concrete below the rooftop. But the night was cold and as the sun rose up the light started to disturb me so I went into the handicapped toilet and tried to sleep in the darkest corner. Unfortunately next day from the incredible horrible quality sake and the instant food what we've eaten previous day I've had a kind-of diarrhea but it was ok. We've checked out a museum, a garden, an amazing and huge waterfall, and some shrines around the lake while we've enjoyed the view. The lake was located at 1200meters high... so it was not really warm there and the water was also pretty cold. So I didn't swim. But it was an amazing weekend we've had a lot of jokes and laughs... until a point. the original plan was coming back Tuesday night and on Wednesday go to an amusement park (we've planned it for soooo long and everyone agreed) but the German guy suddenly said: he stays at the lake for one more day... so we couldn't do anything. Alone it's not fun to go to amusement park so I stayed but I'm a lilbit angry on this guy. We've already had a plan and I understand that he had a great time at the lake if 4 of us, friends (or at least I thought so...) plan something one of us in the last second just cannot kick it up bc he changes his mind. Anyway I also stayed one night more (drinking games and sleeping in the tent and have lot of laughs and fun) and this morning with the Irish guy we came back (the two other guys stayed longer). While the amusement park we needed to cancel this afternoon I just went to Ginza, checked out a movie museum (it was for free... and it had a section for the history of Japanese porn movies... which is totally sick), checked out a huge Sony exhibition (and tried out the latest psp-s, PS3-s, 3D TV-s) and stuff so it was nice. I loved the nature in the past day but I also the metropolitan Tokyo. Even if you cannot go anywhere just walking around and see the amazing skyscrapers and buildings and neon on the street... Fantastic! I love it. So still here every day is a miracle and tomorrow it will just continue... I'll check out the famous fish market! Yeeey!
Yeah... well I was pretty lazy with the blog in these last days right? Sorry. Well one of the reasons is that nowadays not too many people read it... but more important that while I'm on holiday I can and have to do a looooot of stuff so I'm always busy or tired. So let's check out past week!
On Thursday I did sightseeing... I wanted to check out an area close to the bay. But while I have not much money I didn't want to take the train for so much money so I got off earlier... and figured out again that Tokyo is amazing. Cos while I just wanted to walk towards these three stops I've found some parks/forests/art museums and shrines... so in the end when I reached the are what I wanted to check out all my afternoon and day was gone. So I just took the train went back to the dorm and later we went a lilbit with the guys. Having fun in Greenland (entrance 1000 and all you can drink but everything is supersoft so you need to drink at least 20 shots for a cheerful mood...) for songs like this:
Gosh I loved this song but it was so overplayed by radios that after some weeks I just hated it. But it was nice to remember. And as usual we made some massive singing for Calll Me Maybe. So it was fun and we tried to get home by the last train. But some superdrunk Japanese partygirls came to us and said to shut up and not speak on the subway and they added in Japanese that people who don't speak Japanese shall leave Japan. (We've had some Japanese friends with us so we understood...) Well I got superoffended but in the end not much happened. Anyway so far instead of the sexually superhungry European lover Japanese dominas we have seen always the frustrated foreginerhater assholes. Yeeey.
Friday. There was a huge comic/manga exhibition at Odaiba so I went there to check out some cosplays and craziness ( I'm not interested in buying mangas but anyway.) Of course I couldn't reach my destination. :D Odaiba is an amazing place with a lot of nice things. Rainbow bridge, amazing train ride high above the ground a supermodern museum, amazing buildings, a huge robot from some crazy television series and stuff. So I've checked out these things and when I arrived to the manga festival it closed already. But I've seen incredible huge hangars completely full of manga books for the fans... lot of people with 30-40 newly bought thich manga books... so it was crazy. and the island is amazing. I've checked out a Toyota showcase, the mentioned museum, some nice buildings, this robot... but the most amazing thing was the bay and the shore at the sunset. The most romantic thing I've ever seen. Endless sandy shore with palm trees and in front of the beautiful rainbow bridge and loads of skyscrapers with their lights.. Wow! I really shamed that I couldn't bring here a girl it was sooo extremly beautiful. Later I'll upload some pics. It was marvelous. Later we met in the citycenter. Nearly all of the trainees and made a farewell party for two Norvegian guys. They were really nice and friendly and cool guys and btw the major womanizers here... and I understand while they showed a really really good example how you have to behave. So it was nice everyone was altogether we said or goodybe and it was a great night. But we came back with the last train.
Saturday. Hiking! Most of the people went on the Nikko trip. This we couldn't afford. 15000 yen... too much. so we traveled with some guys to the eastern Tama area checked out there the beautiful landscape and area, a very very nice limestone cave, a hot spring Onsen it was amazing. After the cave we got really really wet cos a really tropic rain caught us. The heaviest rain I've ever seen. And there was no bus or shelter we needed to walk in it. amazing experience. :D But later it was really great we checked out a small village and it's cultural festival where people were carrying a kind of altar and dancing and making music. I felt like on the National Geography or Discovery channel. Amazing experience. And also we've seen a very nice firework show.
Aaaand on Sunday we went to eastern Tama area checked out a beautiful shrine and a zoo. It was nice I've seen kangaroos and pandas. But again... Japanese people don't care about nature or animal... the pandas needed to suffer in kind of concrete box with 4 bare tree inside it with superlittle green. They were sleeping but still. In many nice spots they filled way too much animals inside I guess it was pretty uncomfortable for them. so it's nice to see these animals but I think they really don't care about them or how they feel inside. They just want to make sight out of them. Like at the cat cafés.
Tomorrow early get-up and we will go Nikko for 2 days. Just some guys without hotels or anything... just tent and try to make it as cheap as it is possible. We will see I hope it's gonna be fun. Past days were a blast. I loved it. I can write many pages and upload 1000pics... you cannot imagine these kind of miracles what we have lived through until you see/hear/sense it. I love it.
So... first day off. I slept a lot. Till 10:30. I mean I've missed breakfast but it was ok... I really needed to sleep myself out. And I was not in a rush. I've put on some The Gathering records and started to make a plan... what to do in these two weeks. On the weekend most of the people will got Nikko... an amazing place with beautiful shrines. But it's not that close so it will be a 2 days trip... with food in restaurant, and drinking party, and smiley Japanese IAESTE organizers and... bullshit. I mean I really love these organizers they are friendly and polite and nice and everything... but they don't always consider that we don't have money. I mean... no, we didn't. The official Nikko trip costs 15000 yen... which is 150 euros. and it's a lot for two days and hall no I cannot afford this ( I've made some calculations today... probably in the last weeks I won't have any money to spend so I'll just stay all day in the dorm eating the food we get...).
I'm interested in the shrines and the cultural stuff... but I'm not interested in eating in restaurants, having drinking party, going to Sake factory ( I haven't tried out sake yet btw...) and stuff. So two days after the official trip with a friend of mine we'll go just two of us check out the shrines and sleep in a tent. We cannot afford more we are not Japanese, we have no money. But it's ok. And also I've made plans and trips for the weekend and during the weekdays I'll try to see from Tokyo as much as t's possible. Cos this city really huge and you can always visit a new garden, a new shrine or a new museum. A guy in the dorm told me that after 3 weeks I'll just bore this place and I'll find nothing interesting... well I guess he has the wrong idea.
Anyway I was a lilbit lazy today (you have to have some time sometimes just for yourself and stay a lilbit alone) so I went for sightseeing only late in the afternoon. I've bought some frozen pasta (cheapest thing) from the supermarket, threw out my garbage and lilbit made my stuffs more ordered. Afterwards I've checked out some shrines, statues, an orthodox church, and the East gardens of the Castle. I also wanted some museums but in the end I didn't have time for that. But every sights were nice. Later we went to Akihabara... there is a supernerd anime fan guy who basically lives there. It's a district ruled by the manga kommando and the slotmachine maffia... big neons, games, arcades, slot machines, anime shops, anime cafes, manga stores in 7-9-11 store buildings ultimately. Amazing. So this g33k guy who spends all his time there buying anime action hero figures did some guided tour for us. It was funny. But we've seen again some crazy stuff. Like an anime where... instead of legs the girls had 2nd world war airplanes instead of their legs. We've seen some cosplays, huge manga stores... btw one second stop. Manga = porn. No questions, it's not a statement it's a postulatum. Every freakin' manga girl is supersexy with short skirt big eyes and huge boobs... 90% dresses up like prostitutes... no matter what the story is... it's way too much filled with sexuality. And here comes the crazy stuff: In these huge comic book stores there are 18+ areas... which are technically located in more than 50% of the shop! And lot of people are there reading and searching hentai, and enjoying watching raped cartoon girls. Crazy. But there is something worse. We went to a DVD store where there was also a really really huge porn section. Aaaand. Well among the hardcore stuff we've found something totally sick. You can buy DVD's where 8-9-10 years old girls are. They are not fucking they are not naked... they are just playing with each other in the pool in bikinis and stuff. But man it's SO sick!!!! I mean in a way, here it's porn and... you can buy this video. Not to watch how a nice family in Japan works but because you have sexual fantasies... and it's ridiculous! I mean on the internet you can find anything. But here it is legal to sell in shops?
And also we've seen AKB 48 (a pop act... 48 Japanese girl. It's like take that... but in a stupid way) stores, (huge ones) where you can buy nothing but merchandise products of this band... you can buy AKB 48 donuts for 10 euros... Silly.
Anyway afterwards we just had a dinner and watched a movie. Oh there are some nice stories. There is a girl... she is hot. Like superhot. This typical wannabe hot girl... she doesn't like that good but still very ok (and among blind people the one eyed is the king) but she never comes to any event... she holds the nose very high and very proud and blablabla... stupidwhoe. Anyway one night she slept here in our dormitory. She went out for some drinks with one of our guys but got totally wasted.... puked in every train stop... nearly got hit by train and nearly arrested by police. The guy of course wanted to nail her... but gave her too much drinks so they just made out... and she got sick and in the end they just slept next to each other on the bed. Nice one. :D Aaaand there is an other story. There is a girl... super sharp dressed. Really she is amazing... always pays a lot of attention to look like someone came from the 30's or 40's... always pays attention on the perfect colors with earrings and clothes and lipstick and stuff. She likes one of my friends. And she is nice. Superfriendly and superpolite and nice. Travelled a lot, smiling a lot and bullshit... one of my friends said he hates her cos she is even more Japanese than the Japanese people. :D True. Anyway this superfriendly and supersmilingnicelady... is Catholic. Really really catholic... and it turned out that below the smiling nice shell she is really really radically right winged... finding nice and great the voice of Hitler, hating the jews and everything. She has a pretty radical point of view about how things going in the world. The friend of mine who she likes nearly got a shock when it turned out. So guys be aware of the nice people... everyone has a dark side and the dangerous ones are those guys who could hide that way too proper. :D Whatever. Tomorrow I'll continue sightseeing. Yeeey! And we'll see. But this day was fun. Lot of nice stuff, lot of crazy stuff... just a typical day in Tokyo... :D
Today there was not too much to do. We've had an open campus so the uni was full with high school students. We also did some measurements and research... around lunchtime I had lunch with my labmates. I said they can choose a spot where to eat... so went to a Japanese restaurant! (What a surprise!!!!) But surprisingly the fish was pretty tasty and good. And also the rice and salad was really ok and there was also some cold pork.
Afternoon I was searching for a job... and later we've had a final meeting with a Chinese guy. It is pretty hard to get on with the Chinese people in the lab... they are very closed and for each other... I've never spoken with this guy but... well apart that he had kind of babybutt face he was nice and friendly. He spent here a month without doing any scientific research... he was just interviewing professors about exchange experiences and how many exchange students they have.... triing to make the friendship between Japan and China better. But as far as I've heared from my prof it is not that easy... BC in a way for Chine Japanese technology is till kind of politically dangerous or something. Anyway he didn't get as big scholarship as we, and he had a great time he even gave me a postcard. Goodguy labmate.
Aaaand afterward we went to the Tokyo Dome to check out a baseball match! Yeeeey! Osaka Tigers VS Tokyo Giants. While our Japanese friends supported the Tigers we've also supported them... and it was amazing.
For me this was the first time ever I've been to any kind of professional sport event (and it was baseball... if someone would said it to me 10 years ago... I'd make a big laugh...). So when completely suddenly a couple of thousand die hard tigers fan out of nothing started to shout and sing I was fuckin amused! It was totally crazy. Japanese people... you know. Silent... sitting just there, gently smile... and when their players needed to hit everyone went totally wild and crazy... shouting screaming, singing, drumming, trumpeting... :D CRAZY! I guess how a metal concert here can be. Anyway the Dome was awesome. Really huge and modern and nice. Lot of people crazy fans (when their player needed to hit. In any other case they just sit polite and silent), lot of merch, shirts, hats, dolls... everything.
But. Baseball is one of the most boring games ever!!!! We've been waiting 3 whole hours just to see 2 = two scores! During 3 hours of game the 2 teams could make only 2 scores... so usually nothing happened just a guy threw away the ball, someone tried to hit it but couldn't, and a third guy caught the ball. Bahhh. But we've had fun... our friends and the company was great, and it was nice to sing and cheer with the crazy fans. And the dome had a huge, amazing roller coaster, and amusement elements, and Ferris wheel so it was really crazy, nice and amazing. But to catch the dinner we've left earlier. the final score was 1-1... so I guess we can be happy our team is 5th and the giants are the first. But for sure watching this game on tv can the most boring thing be ever. So here is one from some other Tigers:
And btw from now on 2 weeks of Vacation!!!! YeeeeeY!!!
So... today usual work... no plug transformer so my net possibilities were stricktly reduced during the day... but it's ok. I felt really sleep so I didn't do too much before noon. Afterwards we needed to do some work, polishing, measurements and stuff. Not too difficult... we've done it already a couple of times so we are getting better.
While we finished till 3pm we had some free time. The weather was really not the perfect... it was a rainy day. And here rain doesn't really refreshes the air... it is just hot water in the air. But anyway I didn't want to just sit in the office. But before we've left I've seen this video... made by the Italiano bastard Antonio from yesterday's happenings:
I mean... it's crazy. :D This guy is totally out of his mind, he is really cool. :D We already discussed some other movie projects for the future. But what is it for? Tomorrow we will go to check out a Baseball match. Tokyo has a very very famous baseball arena and there we will see it. Baseball is really really popular in Japan. Aaaand... there is a huge Ferris wheel and a roller coaster inside the stadium... :D Sweet.
Anyway today after work with the Irish guy we checked out a forest in the middle of Tokyo and the beautiful Shrine inside... it was really amazing. Like... Tokyo is totally crazy and amazing. There is a huge city with skyscrapers and everything... and suddenly there is a forest in the middle. With a lot of animals, and shrines and a peaceful atmosphere. It was really nice.
But the craziness started just afterwards. We visited a Cat coffee. What is a cat coffee? A coffee where you pay for 1 hour entrance 1000 yen and for an hour you can get some cats and you can pet them and cuddle with them. And meanwhile you can use WiFi, Nintendo wee, and the wending machine for free. We were the only tourists for some minutes.. the rest of the Japanese people thought this thing totally serious. Like... princess dressed up ladies spent there many hours just to look at the cats... how cute they are... and try to get their attention. BC it is really not a good place for the cats. The most of them are really fed up with people and cuddling. Like.. we tried to pet them but usually they just went away and didn't really enjoy it. I mean they had toys and walls and it could be a cat paradise... but 8-10 hours of petting is just too much so they rather just tried to hide away. There was one who was all the time hiding inside a plastic bag... :D But ok it was fun. We played some Nintendo Wii, and had fun with the company, we've drank a lot of fine hot chocolate and coffee and the cats were also cute and pretty. So it was great. :D Once in a lifetime experience. Btw before coming to the cat coffee we visited a huge Hello Kitty store. the cutest stuff we could buy was a Hello Kitty potato piler... it was really nice. I have a pic with it... I felt like a princess... :P But not hello kitty is the most popular cat in Japan... but Doraemon. It is a very famous anime here... you can buy everything with Doraemon. He is a robotic cat from the future who helps a boy with a lot of strange stuff from his pocket and the future. He has no ears cos mice have eaten them. It's kind of Mézga család Japanese edition:
Later we came home, had a dinner and watched the movie called snatch. Tomorrow is work, than farewell party for a Chinese guy and afterwards the baseball match. Yeey! We supposed to study a baseball anthem but I haven't done it. Yet.
And here is something more. The blog has it's birthday. I've been in Tokyo for 1 whole month. Yeey. So the sad thing is that I have to leave (despite all my complaining I really love it here and I really would stay if I'd have much more money... I only miss just certain things and a small amount of people). So here are some statistics:
The most interesting the blog was for Hungarian people. In the all time readers statistics Hungarian readers have 313 page visits. Hatalmas köszönet mindenkinek, elnézést a nyelvért. :( The second place has Spain (What a suprise... :)))))) So a big greetings for everyone there Hola!!!!!! I hope to meet many of you soon. Spain has 114 views. Russia is the third place (78)... which can mean that my dear Anna and Anastasiia are interested in my stories... or that the Russian google can find this blog easily. Anyway I really miss the girls it has been a long time since we've left Finland I really hope they are doing great. Fourth place is Finland (68) thanks a lot for Kaisa and the Paukkunen family I really hope everyone is having a great summer there. And the rest: USA (58) Germany (33) Turkey (21) and Singapore (20 - köszi Árpi, remélem jövőre Wackenben újra összefutunk). Honestly these statistics are not necessarily true... the blog was much much more frequently visited in the first week than afterwards... among the regular readers the list is: 1. Russia (!!!) 2. Hungary 3. Spain 4. Finland 5. USA 6. Germany 7. Singapore 8. UK 9. Austria. The most readed post was the first one... among the "normal" posts it was the one called: "It's a trap!" with 66 readings. Usually during the month every post was read somewhere between 20-40 times right now it's a lilbit less: 10-20 times per posts. Among the readers 43% uses google chrome (cos I'm the biggest reader of this blog...) 29% uses Firefox 8% uses internet explorer and I'd like to congratulate for the lucky person who have found it by using Netscape communicator. The pages were displayed 922 times by windows 115 times by Android and 86 times Mac.
So thank for everyone for the whole month reading... we still have one month to go. I hope many of you enjoy these stories I'll try to be as informative as I can. Big greets for everyone!
Like it was pretty hard to get up and despite I did it, I needed to realize that if I go for the hiking to the Eastern part of the city, the rest of my group has to wait for me 45 mins. It was much further than I expected. So I didn't go... sent them a message. and btw it was really really hot. Like it's hot everyday but seriously. 34-35 degrees 1000% humidity... this was the hottest day of the summer. It was really REALLY not hiking weather. So I slept a lilbit more and with the Italian, Irish and German guy went to a park close to our dorm... we organized there an all day picnic. Aaaaand it was great!
Like really relaxing... eating our food, playing baseball, cards, having snacks... make jokes, do a lot of stupid stuffs... :D We had great time. I mean I feel lilbit guilty... by not doing anything interesting and touristic... you can go to park also in Hungary. But it was great to hang out with my friends and in this hot weather you really don't want the crowd and the city center. The ice-cream was great also and later 5 more friends joined. So it was fun I'll upload later some pics and vids.
Oh and one funny thing. In there park there was a Japanese... "strange group"... who were a bunch of people dancing. Thy brought big drums and they were doing kind of strange moves...dances. They were kind of hippies and I'm sure they were doing this for spiritual reasons. Anyway we joined them and started to dance with them despite we were totally rookies. :D But it was funny they didn't get offended they were laughing a lot on/with us.
Later we had a dinner together and I started to watch a movie. While this is a dorm you cannot really do anything just alone... so till the end 5 of us were watching the movie. And some guys also made some push-up competition... which is quite nice.
So. Next week from Wednesday I'll get 2 weeks of vacation. Yeeey. So I can do all the visits/trips/museums that time. And I'll try to figure out maybe some hikings, Japanese alps or interesting stuff... we'll see. While the last Japanese vid was a success here is something from the opposite side: (starts from 1:50)
and here is a normal one... today I could speak with a great friend of mine, who I really miss Migue and showed this nice one. Ahh I really miss all the guys from the prev semester (especially a really non-online one) we had such a great time. I wish soon I could see many of them. But it will be not that easy. :S
It was "sweet". It was an IAESTE program. We visited JAXA which is the Japanese NASA. Get up early, travel X hours, arriving to a small town district. First we've checked out a science museum. It was nice. Mostly for children but these were interesting things. Ok, too many stuff in Japanese, but still. It was cute and nice. Biology, physics, stuff. We've seen some rocket models... pretty ok. We've had lunch at a Japanese restaurant... I could find some port so it had a happy ending.
Later we went to JAXA and checked out their exhibition. Well, Japan has shitload of money. I mean in Hungary we've just made our first Satellite... in Japan they had a huge exhibition about Japanese satellites, what they've done, lot of stuff to see, make photos, try out... it was really nice. Not too scientific but still cool. Of course everywhere there were cartoon characters... the space agency's mascot is a sea-lion. :D Sweet. Anyway it was pretty ok, we've had fun. Later we went to this... firework show. It was pretty amazing. 14000 rockets, of of colors, effects and everything. Here it's pretty not like in Hungary... smog remains at the place were the stuffs explode so it's not that easy to see anything. But it was pretty cool I liked it. Later we came back with the boys had a dinner and took a bath. BTW yesterday I couldn't make my presentation cos I missed the location. Amazing. So I didn't really have a great night but... whatever. In a big city like this these kind of things happen.
So tomorrow. The guys want to make a BBQ in a park close to here... but some girls want to go for a hiking. I'd rather go on that but... too early to get up... to much money on travel and things. We will see how I feel in the morning. I guess in the end I'll go I mean... you have to do crazy experiences and not just sitting with the boys. I realized I like to imitate people. Like... here are some really freaky guys and it's such a nice thing to parodize them. I know it's mean but still. Some guys are cool and real friendz but there are totally weird creatures. We are kind bunch of loosers in general but still. Some really make it on my top10 list. But know I'm too tired and too good guy to start to a make a list that who is why a faggot... it's much more fun if you do it in live. And everyone is nice and helpful just... some styles... some ideas are very strange and there are some really closed minded people what really doesn't help to get along in an internation company. But ok I guess in many ways I'm also pretty freaky so I have no rights to criticize anyone... I'm not better than anyone else.
So some other stuff. This was the first year I wasn't at Wacken. After 5 years. I just checked out some Testament songs on the livestream. In a way I really really miss it... in a way I totally not.
We'll see what the future brings... but despite I'm much less into metal than I used to be I'm still sure this is still a part of my heart which will stand strong and which I cannot cancel or defy. Everyone has problems, fears, weaknesses... and despite here I'm the funny guy who can always make everyone laugh and are most of the time kind and nice I also have for myself my own bad stuffs. Right now I'm pretty... lost. Like... Growing up is difficult for me I guess. I have a totally crazy plan what do I want to do with who and when and how...but even if I'd tell it it would sound so freakin ridiculous and impossible...Past years I've done nothing just build up dreams again and again. Living in crazy countries, get into crazy group of people, leaving an unreal world. I guess I'm just addicted to it and I cannot stop. But I have to and if I stick my dreams and plans (what I usually do) I'd just fall because I'm over a level for what the possibility to reach is real. And there are other people also on who my dreams and plans depend on so...
I wish life would be as easy as I thought it is when I was 18. I feel I'm totally lost and I have no clue what to do. I know what I want but it is so difficult to make everything proper on the way... So I guess I'll go to sleep that's always a good choice. Btw I hear on the livestream that Dani Filth still cannot sing. Nice. Anyway here is a vid which usually make me smile thanks for all the memes in it:
Aaand here is a nice article about Japanese animes... I think it is really amazing... :D
I was a little bit lazy with blog writing, but ok here we are again. So. On Wednesday night we went to the official IAESTE welcome party. Do not expect anything big... fortunately this time there were no 45 years old ladies dressed up Disney princesses, singing Japanese songs and we also didn't need to play chair conquer! Some university professors spoke about how great that we are here and the importance of the international friendships. We were served with sushi (what a surprise!!!), french fries (a real surprise... :)) and some beer. Everything disappeared very fast we needed to stand up on a stage and tell who we are and things like this. We needed to make origami (I am super untalented... 3-4 Japanese people helped me out and later the scumbag African guy stole my origami...) so it was fun.
But. While we've already been here for a month and at least the trainees know each other very good personally I found it funny that we have to again put on name cards and things... So while it's so boring to be always Marci from Hungary I've written the name: Pierre on my card, picked up a nice French accent and tried to convince everyone that I'm Pierre from France. It was nice some of my friends found it funny especially when I introduced myself on the stage also as Pierre from France. :) But ok, later for the Japanese ones who were really interested and wanted to add me on fb I told my real name. And they didn't add me afterwards... :D
Thursday we didn't need to do anything in the lab cos the machine was broken. So we visited Edo museum. It is really nice. But really big. We've spent there 2 and a half-3 hours and it was not really enough. But there were a lot of very nice and interesting things about the history of Tokyo and how people lived here many years ago. We've had a very lovely guide, and old Japanese guy who was really really friendly.
And afterwards we went for some clubbing partiing. It was really not that good. The beginning so-so... but they were cheating really bad on the drinks and later we went to an other club where you can dance... and it was horrible. So amazingly crowded that you really couldn't enjoy your time. This thing, that in Japan you can pick up chicks easily of you are a foreigner is just not true... if you are a womanizer you can, if you are a looser here you are still the same looser... there was a guy who was totally bet and kicked during the night by girls.. without any reason.
And after some sleep today we came to the lab to do experiments again. In the afternoon I planned to go to museums but I was tired and at 8 there will be an IAESTE meeting where I'll have to make a presentation about Hungary. I'll show this video:
BTW I'm really not sure how much interested any of you is in Japanese pop culture... but here is a video from the group which is recently the most famous here:
So here are some pics from the last couple of days. Today we couldn't find the guy who we supposed to speak so I became a time millionaire. So I was searching for some jobs and uploaded the pics:
Unfortunately we can start working in any second so today we couldn't make sightseeing. But there'll be a welcome party soon. Afterwards when I return to the dorm I won't be too sleepy maybe I'll write a normal post also.
