ヽ(≧∀≦)ﾉ Amazing April!!

Wow, it's April already.. a belated post. I have been on/off with my blogging lately, I'm sorry!
We had bad weather over the weekend, which is probably where I will start this long-ass blog and work backwards from it. Sunday we had 'typhoon' like winds, which were really strong, but it seemed the news over exaggerated  nonetheless I resisted going out, nursing a slight hang over and a really bad injury, self inflicted but it will be explained later.

   So skipping back two days now; my Boyfriend came home from work a little earlier than usual. Finally he announced he had 'big news' and explained he bumped into an old Friend. For personal reasons I can't go into details, but they hadn't spoken in over a year now and had a rather big spit. Anyway, long story short, they have made amends and decided to go drinking and he would introduce me to his Friend, Saturday night.
Saturday rolled around and we headed out to meet near the Game cen', oh yeah -- it was raining, like crazy. I hate rain, my hair was instant CURLS so, uggh. We met with another Friend, this one I know so I was okay. But everything was really well; Koko-chan (appropriately named by myself) is really amusing; his English is good too. He was shocked to hear about our relationship, but it was all later confirmed how it happened so we had more of an understanding. I unfortunately ended up drinking too much, again. This is my second time in my WHOLE lifetime that I have made myself sick from drinking. So now I've been demoted to soft drinks..
   We ended up on the subject of piercings and tattoos, Ko has a micro dermal and I'm touchy when I'm drunk so I wanted to look. He wasn't wearing the gem, so he presented it me from his wallet --- only then my Boyfriend dumped it into Ko's drink which caused me to freak out and whine at him. Weh, I understand there is some tension left so I'm allowing my Boyfriend to vent it out. WHICH is how I ended up with my injuries.
   Once I had stopped running back and forth from the bathroom, we ventured out into the RAIN and the COLD, we took shelter inside this little area to decide what to do next; but Ko was wearing a beanie hat which I thought would be smart to take it and wear it myself. I'm not even sure HOW I ended up on the floor, but the tiles were soaked and slippery and my boots aren't ideal since they too are slippery. So yeah, it was only the 'thud' of my head that made them notice I was on the floor, but BOY does my arm hurt. I've got a hefty bruise too. Fun. HAH so drunken antics over, we took purikura and went to do karaoke.
   My Boyfriend and Ko did multiple duets, it was sweet LOLGAY. The purikura is amusingly dumb too, I want more and I REALLY need to start learning to use my camera more, I have like, five photos on it! But I had a lot of fun; eventually I explained to my Boyfriend that I wanted to meet everyone again, and that Ko wasn't really that bad afterall -indepthmeaningfulconversation- and finally the puzzle pieces were put together.

   So, thats the last two days which I can 'recall'. Today is Monday and we are eating yesterdays curry. My Boyfriend literally made like, 10 people worth of curry, we had two dishes yesterday EACH, and one dish today each. We still have half a pan left; I'm just SO glad it's not pork, UGGH.

Well, despite now being in Japan, I am still doing my 10 monthly goals, even though I forget most of them..

April Goals:
♥ Take more photos!!
♥ Grab more Friends eMails etc etc..
♥ Take videos, I might take a couple.
♥ Manage a stable conversation in Japanese with Friends.
♥ Take a walk longer than usual; seriously, this area is so scenic.
♥ Get the courage to sit in a Cafe to study.
♥ Enjoy my time here; I already am but I am letting others ruin it.
♥ MAYBE: Finish flash cards for my Boyfriend..
♥ Enjoy April: Live Live Live!!
♥ Finally cook something 'British'

   Well, that's it. For the past few days I've been really motivated by my Friends here (yet again). My Boyfriend told Ko that he wants to go to England, since I have been here twice now. I guess once he goes to  England it will make everything all the more official, ya'know?
Sorry for the lengthy post and no pictures to show for it.

Food + Hauntings

On the 19th March; we went out for a meal, though since the following day was a national holiday, most restaurants were packed full so it took a couple tries until we were finally seated at one restaurant, which I had been to in the past so we knew what to order with ease!! I really love 焼き鳥 (yakitori) so we ordered that along with スパイシーなポテト (spicy potato) - the choice of decoration Japanese use always amuses me. The resemblance of a hemp leaf. (I've also noticed my Boyfriend has similar air fresheners too)
At the restaurant you had 90 mins to drink drink drink; I think the drinks were half price, or you were given the chance to drink as much in a set price for the 90 mins, I wasn't sure. But I think we managed three rounds even before our food arrived -- uggh Japan will be the death of my liver for sure.

The following we day we went to help my Friend move house, well we basically had to move all her Boyfriends belongings too and he lives on the first floor so we were walking up and down a flight of stairs for maybe 3 hours? The area was really nice and seemed communal since it was rather out of the way, no buses, no cars, nothing. The house on the ground floor was supposedly haunted too, they never shut their windows and well I guess Japanese are really quite superstitious? 

While waiting for the next Car to return, I managed to take a few photographs of the area. It was so peaceful and quiet, so I did get an eerie sensation finally that someone was watching from the 'haunted house'. Creepy. The weather was absolutely gorgeous! It was peaking 20 degree which totally puts to shame England's 10 degree or less. 

After everything was removed and emptied from the old apartment, we all went to visit the new apartment, which looks so cosy and spacious - maybe because it was empty. We sat and ate snacks etc which was refreshing. I was rather envious of how nice the apartment looks, it's three times the size of my Boyfriends current apartment! But I enjoy staying here regardless, it's nice to be here with him. 

Once we got back home we were seriously sleepy, well at least he was, and he seemed comfy sleeping on my legs for hours too.  ヾ(ﾟεﾟ*)ﾉ

（´∀｀） Fun Times

Shopping + 飲み会

Aug 3 2012: So today I went shopping with the Boyfriends Sister, she arrived at the apartment around 10am and this was my first official day out in Japan. I annoyingly over dressed myself in mostly black and regretted it while walking to his Parents house for breakfast. His Mother cooked us breakfast - it was delicious, but so many dipping sauces! I wasn't sure which to use but his Sister demonstrated which ones go where. I finally got to meet his dog too, a little chihuahua called Chibi. Who kept begging for food under the table. チビちゃんはとてもかわいいね〜
Afterwards we headed out to go Shopping in Yokohama, she was going to show me where she got her ghost harem pants from! We arrived at a clothing department store and I almost instantly picked up two new shirts for less than 1,500yen each!!

What makes them even more amazing, they came as a "2 Set" piece, the shirt on the left is a two shirt piece. The next shirt included leggings, of one leg black and the other with grey stars, cute~! They are both 'batwing' style so they were extra loose and comfortable. Some of the English on the shirts were rather amusing too. Calling your spouse a 'House Boat' wouldn't go down so well back in Europe.
We continued on to the next shop, after deciding Japanese girls have teeny-tiny waists and the shorts on the clothing rail were like XXS. Weeh. The clothing stores were a little like TKMAX back home, but it was still organised and presentable, not like the chaos at TKMAX usually. I managed to pick up another shirt, I was torn between this one and a similar with two crosses on, but obviously I chose the skull one, since my current skull shirt is actually a sweater, and I'm doing enough sweating - euugh. Again another batwing shirt!! But it has cute little diamante detailing on the straps.

Eventually we headed back home and she walked me back since I wasn't 100% sure of the way back yet. So I was thankful for that as my mobile doesn't work here unless I get a WI-FI connection. OTL

Aug 4 2012: My memory is vague on the entire day, but I am pretty sure we went out for Breakfast, which was cute, our kind of 'First dinner date'. It was delicious non the less! Anyway, towards the evening things got lively! My Friend Katie was in Japan also at this time, she was with Ku. I hadn't seen Ku since March this year, and Katie I hadn't seen in over a year maybe longer, despite the fact she lives in the UK. Anyway we had planned a drinking session, or 'nomikai' / 飲み会 to the Japanese. We invited a couple extra people and agreed to meet up in Shibuya at Hachiko. I arrived early with the Boy, and waited for some time before we headed off to get a drink - he got a phone call from a Friend who was waiting at Hachiko already so we headed back. Which I was nervous, I had met his Friend back in March also but I couldn't remember - but we had been speaking via Twitter since then. We arrived and said hello, but the language barrier was a little difficult so I kept quiet for the most of the time while checking on the Boys iPhone to see where Katie was.
Eventually - she jumped me, and I screamed rather loudly which is shocking coming from someone so usually quiet. Haha! We all introduced ourselves, and luckily Ku speaks Japanese also so she translated a lot. At first the Boy was rather nervous about meeting Katie, but I told him Katie was bringing 'Chibi' along with her and he only spoke Japanese also. I asked them to exchanged 'meishi' / 名刺 since they are both in the same industry.
We ended up in an awkward situation where this random girl added herself to the group. It's a common thing in Shibuya, especially if you are stood around Hachiko you get asked by people to go visit their bar or restaurant and they offer you a discount. Well, she stood for some time and it got a little annoying especially since Drummer Boy was exchanging details with her. 'Playboy' we kept shouting.  After more awkward situations and evil glares from the pretty girl, we managed to get away and find our own bar to drink in.

It was such a great night. I asked Drummer Boy to eat the wasabi from my 卵！But he only took a little bit, so I kept asking him to eat it all. We had a lot of fun talking about things, and the Boy eventually seemed comfortable with the situation that he wasn't going to be mauled by Gaijin Girls since there were five of us and only three of them. Eventually Drummer Boy had to leave, but he asked us all to go to his Live that same week. He knew I was already but I was trying to introduce Katie and Ku into the music also~
We did take a couple photos from that night, but a lot of them turned out horrendously bad because I hate using flash. After awhile we all decided it was time to head back before the last trains, but we made plans for the next day also anyway so we would all meet again soon! 楽しー！

❝PiECES❞

こんにちわー
Long time no see~! I'm sorry for the lack of Blogs, once we got home from Isle of Wight I was super busy with a lot of preparations. One of those was homing a new Cat called Sam. He is adorable, with selective deafness. Though the first few nights were horrible with him because of the fights etc. OTL

Miss! Welcome to this new flight called DREAM!

Ride on and enjoy your travel! Please enjoy your time.

Anyway~ right now I am blogging from Japan! To many peoples surprise since I kept it to myself again. I have been here since the 2nd of August. I've done so many things already and we are only just into our second week of being in Japan!
My flight landed in Beijing for a couple hour stop over, it was incredibly hot, I had left London which wasn't even reaching 25C and was wishing for my scarf, but landing in Beijing I had to find the bathroom in order to strip off my multiple layers of stockings and shirts. It was suffocating. Landing in Tokyo wasn't any better either, we had a departure delay, and baggage handling took forever and I was an hour late for my Boyfriend. Luckily he was still waiting - yes I would have died if he wasn't there. It was a little awkward because of how shy he is, and I was just muttering to him about how hot it was. (when we left the airport, I had to go back inside because the AC was like a charm, but he insisted we left) But he did purchase me bottled water which I wanted to toss all over myself. Uggh~

Once we arrived at his place, we took the car back to his Parents place, which I found out the moment we pulled up and his Mother came out with the dog. I felt so shy and looked INCREDIBLY sleepy, so I just worriedly waved from inside the car. Then his Father came back from work at the same time, oh my god. Now I know how Animals in a Zoo feel. （笑）

We went back to his apartment and I handed him his gifts rather timidly. I had come from England with a huge bottle of Vodka and I had spent the past 24+ hours traveling scared it'd break in transit. (I actually still have a bunch of gifts left to give out too)

After awhile of small talk he told me we were going to go drinking with Friends, so I kind of panicked and told him no until he said his Brother and Sister were going to be there. Which eased me, only just a little. Who would have known the language barrier was enough to make you feel a couple inches in height.
However it wasn't THAT intimidating, I met his Brother previously and saw photos of his Sister, and her Boyfriend I had met also already to my surprise! It was really nice, and really welcoming too.
I made shopping plans with his Sister the next day because her harem pants were adorable. 'Ghost pants' - seriously. I wanted them but on her they were good, but she's so much smaller than me. Ah well.

Everyone is going to ask eventually; OMG HOW IS TOKYO?! ... I'm not in Tokyo, I'm in Yokohama, which is interesting and a whole new experience to me. I'm still getting to grips with his location and the train line here, but I can confidently say now I can get to Shibuya from here, haha. Even if it costs a bomb.

I'm going to leave it here for now, the next blog will be the shopping trip + 飲み会！