I need a change!

It was supposed to be my ブログ　for the Japanese journey. But, as you can see, I didn't write that much and it's nothing like the diary I thought it would be. So, as I really don't find any sense in having tons of blog for different things and I'm not very blogging person I simply decided the following:

This will be
MY FORGOTTEN BLOG!

FORGOTTEN because I will forget to write all the things I have in mind so probably not that many articles :)

AND the first thing to do is to change the banner :)
I will still have it posted here, coz I will miss it a lot.



Let me tell you more about the pics used for the banner. It's not that every one of them has the VERY special meaning but still they show some of my interests and inspirations.

The fist one - the maiko. I didn't see any when I was in Kyoto but I still dream I will have the chance to see a maiko for real. May be even be accompanied by one? Everyone say it's really expensive to have a dinner with a maiko. Long long ago there were only the men who were supposed to enjoy their company. I wonder if nowadays I can enjoy their artistic skills too.

The second pic - oooh, the bamboo....Nature. The balance Japanese try to find with the inanimate object is stunning! Every tree and stone and even insect has it's natural and punchy spot on the planet. The bamboo represent all the beautiful gardens and parks I have been. And yet not the concrete jungle in some Tokyo neighborhoods.

The third one - is again maiko or you can see it as the very popular Japanese umbrellas. Or even may be the red circle from the Japanese flag. And the red spot shows the sun...and this is the land of the ricing sun, right?

The last two are actually special..... NANA is a manga that I really adore though I haven't read it for ages. It's probably my very first manga and the first one that kept me awake all night reading chapter after chapter. Even tried Hachiko's hairstyle ^^
ABout the last picture I won't say much because it's obvious it's a Japanese idol and this man especially is getting more and more popular every year. Oguri Shun. I think I wrote more about my passion about him in some other article so just read it!

This banner really represents a lot of my interest in Japanese culture - nature, old traditions, pop-culture and celebrities.

And as I need a change I have a very good song telling all about it.
Please enjoy!

I've been silent for a while....

Hey ya all!
I really haven't wrote here for veeery long time. I think I will write some articles in the plane on my way to Korea.
What is new here (very briefly):
- I went to Kyoto using the Seishun 18 Kippu. The result: 12 h one way, 8 or 9 transfers.....local trains only. The money? Only 2300 yen. So what will you give me - your money or your time? I will write more about Kyoto...some disappointments and lots of fun, but I prefer thinking of the good things and party time we had.
- THERE IS SIMPLY NO TIME!!! Only 9 more working days in Hitachi AMS. Couple of presentations and lots of work to do about it. Actually I cannot wait to finish it to go to Tokyo then Korea and then - HOOOOME, SWEET HOME!!!! I didn't feel home sick all these months being here. I fully enjoyed my time ^^ But now when my 2 lovely and crazy Bulgarian friends Ira and Yana came here, I really, really want to go back sooner and have more fun like thing on places I know, places I know how to get to and do whatever I want the way I like it.... I miss my room and my cell phone which is not working here. Just hear this: today I remembered that I don't remember where I put it when I came here and I haven't seen it more than 5 months so I found it turned it on and .....saw my old wallpaper....Oguri Shun (да Иржо, Огурчики....само дето го гледах само по плакати в реален размер, не мога да се оплача, ама ако беше нещо като да раздава автографи и снимки хич нямаше да се оплача. Дорче, ослушвай се за други японски продукции в БГ :))

I just won't tell you what was my dwallpaper on my Japanese cell phone from time to time.... Everyone were joking "Is he your boyfriend?" No, he is not and why does he have to be to put him on my keitai? Drooling is still legal...


Well, people say I have good taste...if they like Japanese man at all ^^

Anyway, I lived in my drama for almost 6 months here. During Spring, Summer and.... not Autumn..... They all say Autumn in Japan is very beautiful. Hope to see it some day sooner. Spring was also beautiful.

WOW, WOW, WOW, it's getting late.
Tomorrow is my first working day from long time.... Gotta go to bed.... my puffy and large and comfortable bed... with my cute Winnie the Pooh pillow for hugging and another one - orthopedic... Will bring it back to Bulgaria. My sister will finally have her pillow. So picky on them....

OK, see ya soon. Hugs, kisses, besos mi todo senoras y senores.
(My Spanish sucks but you all got the idea, coz you are my clever and lovely friends)

THIS IS FOR SPLC, Japan

I had so much FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!
Everybody, thanks a LOT, LOT, LOT!!!
During the Golden Week (national holiday in Japan) I expected to have some good time, some parties. And I had! But yesterday the SPLC’s Induction Camp was the top of the top, as we say in Bulgaria – the cherry on the cake! Really, so many new people – mostly freshmen ^^ And of course all the other AISECers ;) I could join the seminar and play with them different games – me and 3 other people were the Pani-pani dance masters!!!! OMG, I can’t really describe everything! It was one of a kind. But I will say this – it was awesome and even if JunJun could stopped his tears coming out at the end of the camp, I’m not sure I will be able to stop mine when the time for going home comes. What to say, I was about to cry yesterday in the bus just when I though that I’ll have to leave everything here in 4 months. OMG...

During this camp I felt like I was 19 again!!!!

And just for the record I have to say that I met another person born on the very same date as me. I stopped counting them long ago. But for now I remember 3 or 4 other person born on the same date. Two of them were classmates.

Someone said that I look like I’m in love…. Well, this is kinda true :) I’m in love with my new life here (most of the aspects, to be honest). I’m in love with the people I met, especially all the SPLC members – so bright and cheerful every time! And as Chami use to say recently – “Obcham te” (I love you). And my response usually is – “I az” (me too).

Special thanks to:
Tatsuya – my TN manager always offering help and support and organizing everything about my stays in Tokyo or some trips (which I hope he will organize). And who made this internship come true! THANK YOUUUUU!!!!
Viola – the one who also helped me a lot and I can feel it’s not only AIESEC job but also a friendship here :)
JunJun – for showing me my favorite afterward neighborhood Harajuku and for organizing such cool Induction camp (here I’m grateful to all his group’s members) and of course JunJun thank you for all the jokes you always make which make me laugh a lot.
Kodera YUKA for being such a nice, cute and talkative girl. And most of all - carrying friend. Hug you! <3
Aomoto YUKA - for her hosting and fan-girlling about Arashi and other idols and again – really talkative person! Thanks for the Bday present  Now I will drink coffee everyday ^^
Moeka – for hosting me at her house so many times and I’m really happy to meet her family.
~~~Here I have to thank ALL OF MY HOSTS (Moeka, Hitomi, Viola, Tatsuya, Aomoto)!!! m(__ __)m ~~
Rie – for her support and nice girls’ talks. And also the first Puri-kura I have ever had.
O-ji and Pati – thank you for dancing around all the time making the days brighter.
Nari - nice person to talk with, share ideas. Wish you all the best for an internship in China this summer!
Chami, Yurie, Kaori, Youta, Hitomi...Thanks you for ALL YOUR SUPPORT SINCE I CAME HERE and beeing so sunny and sweet all the time!!! But can I list everyone? I’m afraid that I will forget someone important.

I miss...

It’s been almost 1 month since I’ve been here and I was surprised that I don’t miss a lot of things here. Or it was just in the beginning….

The fact is that if you can find the things you like on the new place, you can leave almost everywhere! It’s not necessary to be other country. Sometimes even moving to other city is too bad. Actually by now I feel great in Japan. The people I met here are more than friendly and because I met A LOT of during the AIESEC activities, I know a lot of people and with some of them I made I think good friendship.

So I don’t miss friendship.

I told you that I’m living in a small rural town now called Hitachinaka-shi in Ibaraki-ken. Yes, it has something with the company HITACHI, Ltd. almost all Hitachi’s factories and laboratories and other offices are located in Ibaraki. And Hitachinaka is not the only city with ‘Hitachi’ name. There is also Hitachi city, Hitachiomiya, Hitachiota. I also read that Ibaraki-ken’s former name was Hitachi-ken (or something like this, and may be that is why Hitachi company is named Hitachi). So I was talking about some things I miss:

I don’t miss the big city (I refer to Sofia or Tokyo)

At least I don’t miss them all the time. I still haven’t experienced the traffic in Tokyo metro during the rush hour. We all saw these videos showing the employees of the station pulling people in the train so the doors can close. Unbelievable but true! I used to live in small town in Bulgaria too – Haskovo. I also enjoyed the life there. You can go wherever you want by walking. Here you still need a bicycle but it’s again peaceful and not crowded. Sometimes you can hardly meet someone on the street. Only cars are passing.

BUT I MISS SOME THINGS!

I missed my dance classes and my physical activities….
… Piano-bar ‘Yesterday’ and the karaoke there…
… Coming back home late from the usual (salsa) party night…

THINGS, like these.

I miss my room and I always feel nostalgic when I talk with my mom and I see my room. I also miss my family but it feels like when I was in Haskovo, so by now I’m not home sick. Still I think that after couple of months it would be different….

I miss Lily’s English lessons and her warm hugs.
I miss the fan-grilling chatting with Dora about ‘Oguri-sama’ and other similar things.
I miss the girls talks with the cuties from the SISTERhood – Irja and Siana and of course Teddy, our 4th Grace!!!!
I miss the KINKIs – our crazy parties and dances and chatting and cooking.
I miss TOH’s chatting about DDR strategies….
I miss kouhai’s ‘famozno govorene’ (notorious speaking, OK I can’ translate it!!! It doesn’t sound the same in English – famozen?!?!?!?!).
I miss Kira and our psychological chats. And of course I MISS HER!!!
Also Kagome, Rikae, chibi-bakite. Hippy with ‘a whole village in his head’.

I miss Tsvety’s friendship and nice smile.

OK I miss chatting, drooling and fan-girlling about men a lot, but still Irja sends me some e-mail that throw me down on the ground laughing and in the end my stomach aches!!! So much laugh!!! But I think I found someone to talk about such things – again dorama addicted girl who is also a trainee but in Hitachi’s Yokohama office. Her name is Thanh and I just met her few days ago during Hanami. She is really cute and it seems we have similar interests. I also met some party people with whom I hope to go at some clubs and PARTY, PARTY, PARTY and DANCE, DANCE, DANCE! And in the end I realized that little by little there aren’t that much things that I cannot find here. Of course I can’t take people with me, my Bulgarian friends this is why I said THINGS. And if you have them, you can live everywhere. Of course the climate is also essential. By now the climate here is not that different from the Bulgarian. The spring is just the same but as I know the summer is very humid so I think it will be a little bit different.

But in the end on my why home from the Hanami at Tokyo Sta. Tatsuya and me went to eat something. And in this shop was so small and quiet and some nice J-pop was playing and we were eating kare-rice (Japanese invented dish with Indian curry and rice). And in the end we decided to have a dessert and you know what we ate? Ice cream from Hokkaido (where he was born) and the taste was the same as ours sold during the summer everywhere in the cities. The very cheap machine made ice creams. Oh, my GOD! It brought be back in the hot summer days in Bulgaria! In the end I realized that if I can eat such ice creams here it can’t be that bad. Really…

Writing

I think I will change my handwriting here. It’s not that I’m writing bad or ugly but here I already had some problems with the way I’m writing numbers. Like in Japan they don’t write numbers or English alphabet hand-written (manuscript or whatever the word in English is). They just know the print letters so you all know there are several different ways of writing letters and numbers, but here they use the print letters/numbers so I will have to change my hand writing if I want others to understand what I mean. For example 1 is only one strike and 9 is also different. I will try to write them and show you the slight different, which is very essential here.
Ira (my friend in Korea) told me that Europeans there had the same problem and she already changed the way she writes some of the numbers. When you see them you will notice that they aren’t different form our way of writing numbers, but the problem here is that they are using only the printed-like way and they don’t understand well if you are writhing some other way. Like in Bulgaria (and I think everywhere in the world) we have I think at least 4 ways to write ‘four’, couple of ways for ‘one’, ‘eight’, ‘seven’? Actually their way of writing numbers is very close to the one the engineer are using in their engineering drawings. So it’s good that I learned some engineering drawing and school and I know how to write them… Oh, my! Of course my boss new that the ‘Europeans’ are writing different way so he understood but it’s better to learn this way. At least when I’m used to it I won’t have problems when I get back in Bulgaria.

And what about writhing without listing your hand? Unbelievable! They still write the print letters. BUT I WON’T CHANGE THIS! I was surprised when I read Toshi’s first postcards and then Tatsuya and then here. No manuscript English writing. And you know, when I was in elementary school they forced us to write like this – manuscript writing, no print letters. I think most of us still remember their classes of calligraphy (krasnopis) and these notebooks… At least I remember them.


Here are the numbers like one of my colleagues wrote them and almost everyone here are writing them the same way. No difference...

FOOD AND SHOPS

The shops - here everything is in Japanese, you can’t even imagine!!! Coming here without knowing Japanese – you cannot buy anything in the grocery or in other shop. You know the labels in Bulgaria are always written in several languages but here – only in Japanese!!! Not even a single one in English! So actually it is very difficult to buy food in shops or something else. At least it was written shampoo and conditioner in English so I could buy some! I feel lucky I can read the katakana and some Japanese too so I can find what I need. Like ボヂワッシュ(bodiwasshu) is body-wash or shower gel. YEY, I bought one. But it was so funny when I was looking for soap. Of course I didn’t go by myself in the shops here at least the first couple of times. So I just had to say what I needed and they got me to the stand. But it’s always funnier when I’m by myself. In the food shop I spent more than 1 hour choosing what to buy and it the end I didn’t see cornflakes…. anywhere! Of course just before going out I saw some. I told you I have some meals in the dormitory right? But actually after the first 2 weeks I don’t like them so much and decided that I have to save some money and I will buy some food like yogurt and cornflakes and it’s cheaper. The food there isn’t expensive though but when I buy a box of cornflakes it’s 300 yen (3 USD) and I can eat it every morning for at least 4-5 days. For example the breakfast in dormitory is 288 Yen and I’m just TIRED of eating rice, you know? So this week was very refreshing – I had cornflakes in the mornings with some milk, sandwich and salad for dinner/lunch and of course I bought a lot of instant ramen and soba (noodles). So I will survive! When I’m talking about the food I will mention that here they ARE NOT USING THE KNIFE while eating. They use spoon and fork but knife? No!!! And when I told this to my mom she told me that my father wouldn’t survive there because he wants his knife even when he eats soup, you know? And one day I had some stake (bought from the supermarket previous day) and I used knife… in the end someone asked me where did I have this knife, may be brought it from Bulgaria? It was funny because they aren’t using them while eating so I think that they haven’t even noticed that there are some in the shops. Of course they are using some for cooking but not for eating. OMG! Anyways, I’m very good with chopsticks so you don’t have to worry.

Which reminds me to show you this - my obento set (lunch box)! I bought it from 百円(hyaku en) shop. The equivalent of Bulgarian 1 lev shop. So cute things! I will definitely bring them in Bulgaria.

And also this:




I licked my chops (бях му се наточила на това, облизвах си пръстите) to eat this sushi last week and today I bought it for the good work I did during this days. Yummy!!!

OK let’s end with the food topic

Teh F O O D!!!!!

OK, my dearest friends. Today I’m not that tired and I will write my second article in English. Yeah, actually I’m in good mood now. I was very sleepy during the week – a lot of parties and things like this. I still don’t have much work so I don’t stay till late and actually I’m home before 5:30 pm.

Yesterday I went with some Indian friends from the company to an Indian restaurant. Very small one so it seemed like we are at someone’s dining room! It was spicy but not that much. I mean you could choose how spicy you want your food. So in the end it was very good. Actually because of these spices you don’t need meat that much. I mean you know that most of the I

ndians are vegetarians. But the food was really good!!!! Now I have a customer’s card and when I visit the restaurant 30 times, I will have a free meal. Haha, I really liked it (because it felt like home ^^) but even if I go often, I don’t think I will have 30 times. J So I would like to bring my friends who are coming in town. I was with my colleague Sumiya (this is her last name but still I’m not used to call her Yumi, you know in work we are always like Sumiya-san, etc). In the end she happened to be very good company. Liking some sweet (KAWAII) things and the other colleagues can’t even imagine about this personality of hers. So in the end the Indians happened to have deserts – very sweet ones! We had something like ice-cream and a moose. And the Indian bread – again, it was very delicious. I remember when we went to an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria and we really liked the bread then. And in the very end we had chai. Yes I was very surprised when they told me that the Indian tea is called „chai”.

In Bulgaria we use the same word for tea. And then Aditya told me that he met another similar word for one dish when I showed them my presentation about Bulgaria. (Yes, I showed the same presentation in Hitachi too). So we have this very popular meat balls named „kyufte” and in India they also have meat balls named „kufta”. You see? Very similar. In the end we concluded that words like these may be have some oriental origin. Because we all know the Bulgarian history and that Turkey is our south neighbor there are a lot of Turkish words that we are using in Bulgaria. I don’t know where kyufte comes from but anyways......

In the end what happened – in Japan I can enjoy not only the Japanese food but also Indian. Mrs. Sumiya told me that there are also Korean, Thai, Italian restaurants and next time we have to try them instead. Actually I’m eating Japanese food for 2 weeks. I have breakfast and dinner in the dormitoty. At first I liked it and resently may be I’m used to it and I don’t enjoy it that much. Actually it is not bad food. I like it but the first couple of days I had more rice than I ususally have for one month!!!! And now I need a western restaurant! Actually for breakfast I have some meat (sometines), some vegetables and I can have a bowl of rice and miso-soup. Actually my friends here told me that they need only rice and miso-soup and some natto (sticky beans) and they will be just fine. OK, even if I liked rice in the past, I simply cannot eat rice 3 times a day!!!!! So the next week I will try to make a lunch box (obento). And I will have some fresh salad and sandwich. I decided not to have dinners in the dormitory these coming weeks. I need some rest from the rice but I will miss my miso-soup. I really liked it and it’s because I ate soups a lot in Bulgaria. And the good thing is that usually with the dishes you have some fresh vegetables. Also something that I like a lot. So it’s not only rice and miso. Especially the home made food – it is very delisious. Mrs. Sumiya also invited me to her home and she said that I will have some home-made food and I will meet her famity – parents, younger sister and brother. Anyways she is very cute and talkative. Actually at work I was a little bit worried to bother her while she is working because she looks very concentrated but in the end she told me that since everyone around are so quiet she longs to talk with someone – I think I found my man!

And about the food here I think I said most of the esebtial things.

Originally I wanted to write about my welcome party in Tokyo and about the other days I spent there. But actually I wanted to tell you more about my life in Hitachinaka.

Oh, my!!! I didn’t tell you the most important thing – I am saved!!! Their yogurt is exactly like the Bulgarian!!! If you are Bulgarian you need yogurt and white chees to survive abroad. At least I need these things. They don’t have white cheese but at least the yogurt is great and I can make this summer soup tarator!!!! おいしい！ Before I came here I ate 1 box of yogurt almost every day. So now I’m happy to have yogurt also almost every day. But when I make a salad.....WHERE IS THE WHITE CHEESE?????

Travelling..... Sofia-Munich-Narita

Hi, everyone^^ It's been a while. I had a real intention to write here but actually when I have to start writing I feel more lazy than you could ever imagine. But anyways may be I'm in a different mood, so..... Let's start from the beginning. And sorry, but forget about the English. I'm continuing in BULGARIAN, muhahaaha ^__^
Та, да започнем отначало....

Откак се помня все слушам как разни хора пътуват със самолет и им става лошо и какви ли не гадни истории свързани с това и дългите полети. Аз пътувах повече от 12 часа, да не кажа че май бяха 15! Тръгнах от София на 11.03 с полет на Луфтханза, прекачване през Мюнхен и само 1 час престой! Много удобно и искам да ви кажа, че още на летището в Мюнхен като седнах в чакалнята и около мен само японци и седиш и неволно им подслушваш разговорите, беше много забавно. После няма да ви обяснявам пък в големия самолет, че бяха основно азиатци. Имахме 2 яденета, много вкусни. Имаше и около 25 радиостанции с каква ли не музика, от поп, джаз, класика и опера, до африкански, арабски, японски, корейски ритми. После пускаха и филми - проспах "Австралия" с Никол Кидман (как можах, не ме е срам!!!!) После даваха разни други неща, сутринта - дестки за лапетата. Периодично показваха на телевизора къде летим, разни характеристики като температура, височина и прочее, къде е сега нощта, обаче това който е летял на дълги полети го знае :)

Относно самото пътуване нямам забележки. Тъй като преди пътувах много до Хасково и обратно, някой път в рамките на един ден, съм се напътувала с влакове и рейсове. Искам да ви кажа, че като изключим приземяванията и излитанията, през останалото време имах чувството че пътувам във влак. Да, във влак и то български, щото те са шумни почти като самолета, даже на няколко пъти през първите часове в просъница си мислех нещо от сорта на "Колко друса тоя влак.....ааа, пардон, самолет". Да, после сама на себе си се смях. Та толкова по тоя въпрос - австрийските самолети могат да се сравнят с българските влакове по шум, друсане, но не и по обзавеждане :)

Не знам защо обаче през всичките тия 15 часа въобще не ми се спеше, само малко дремнах напът за Мюнхен и после повреме на Австралията филмът. Туй то. После кацнах на летище Нарита, префектура Чиба. Посрещнаха ме с плакати и прочее прегръдки. Оттам взехме влакче и след около 1-2 бяхме на гара Уено в Токио.

Излизам аз от гарата и познайте какво виждам - град като град, някак си и аз не знам какво да очаквам, но не ми беше нито толкова различно, нито толкова стъписващо....(явно нещо съм повредена). Друго нещо от типа "град-като-град": имаше ремонти по тротоарите, клошар, който се препичаше на слънце, но нито една кофа за боклук или някакви мръсотийки по улицата. Стигам до заключението, че това Токио е трудно за ориентация дори на хората дето живеят там. Съдя по немалкото лутане коя посока да се хване. И то е така, като слезеш от метрото имаш толкова много изходи като до всеки вървиш поне 10 минути, че ако случайно го сбъркаш и трябва да се върнеш отново... малко губиш време.


Ядохме въртящо се суши, което ще рече че чинийки със суши ти се въртят пред очите и ти само си избиаш каквото ти хареса. Накрая си събираш чинийките от сушито, които са с различен цвят и фигурка и е написано в кой цвят чинийка колко струва сушито и после само ти гледат чинийките. Много хитро. Чая и водата са безплатни, както навсякъде другаде също. Не можах да не снимам този часовник просто - искам и аз такъв!!!!!!


Това отляво са хората които ме посрещнаха: Тацуя (ТН мениджъра на стажа, с който си комуникирах през тези месеци), до него високата мацка с по-светла коса е Юука (която Марина оприличи на leader-ката на Morning musume - известна група тук), отпред отдясно е Рие (нея също познавах отпреди това) и Нао. Туй то, папкахме, бъбрихме и търгнахме с багажите да обикаляме. Преди това обаче ги оставихме в сейфче на гарата. Като се сещате, че като си заключиш багажа там, като се върнеш ще си го намериш непокътнат, щото дори и компютрите си оставихме. И после ходихме до Асакуса - онази голяма порта с нещо като голям фенер, пред която всеееки чужденец или турист в Токио имат снимки. Навътре има и храм де и пазарче, друг път ще се върна да се пошматкам повече, тогава просто нито ми се гледаше, щото нямаше да купя много нито нищо..... Не бях много изморена от пътуването, но исках поне да се преоблека и да се освежа, а такава възможност за съжаление ми се отдаде чак късно вечерта като се прибрах в квартирата където щях да остана следващите 2 дни. Но преди това имахме вечеря - голяма част от аиесекарите от локалния комитет на Риккйо Университета, една тайванка Ю-Шун, която беше дошла на почивка. С нея си говорихме на английски ест. като по едно време ме попита дали англ. не е официалния език в България, щото съм го говерала много добре (ест. дълеч съм от много добре-то, но се справям екстра) и като й казах, че си имаме наша си азбука направо онемя. Изобщо на много хора разправях за България, за азбуката ни и как прилича на руската, за да направят някакво сравнение. Ако продължавам в същия дух, може да има наплив на японски туристи в най-скоро бъдеще.

Айде стига толкова по първия ден. Имам още 3 дин да описвам от Токио като може да не ги описвам толкова подробно. Но на Welcome party-то ще отделя специално време.

日本に行きますよ。I'm going to JAPAN!!!

Yes, guys, I'm going to Japan! I created this blog just to tell you news when I got there, coz I have so many friends with whom I want to share the joy! I'll write it in English because of the non-Bulgarian speaking friends, though I might write in Bulgarian too. :)
SO - please excuse my poor English sometimes.
I do my best and I will write it the way I can. So no mater you laugh or not it doesn't matter, at least I'll now I made you laugh :P

I'm going to work in HITACHI Automotive Group during 16.03.2009-31.08.2009. 24 weeks. That's the best I could get and it is enough for me :) I'll be living in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki-ken. It is approximately 110 km north from Tokyo. It is rural as they told me on the cost. And that means that there is a lot of fish! Watch out Osushiya (Sushi shops), here I come!!! And they told me that there are beaches and in the summer you can surf!!!! May be there I'll got a surf teacher (^^) and I'll try this for sure.

What else I know so far? I'll be living in a dorm near the company.... and it is a women dorm, "so it's safe". :( Whoever knows me know what does it means.... But I still have some things in mind to make some friend there quickly. We will see if they are going to work.

I'm looking forward this trip! I'm leaving on 12-13 March and I don't know when I'm gonna come back. May be at the end of September, may be later..... Who knows?