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Archive for July, 2009

Love Hotels

Posted in Dates on 28 July, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Ok, so now that I have started writing a little “uncensored” I have to mention this last, but quite important part of dating in Japan, and that is love hotels. As mentioned before young couples don’t really have that many places to be together. Kojiro and me for example have his room at his family’s [...]

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More dating in Japan, Sunshine City and the drinking club

Posted in Dates, Tokyo on 26 July, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Sunday 21/6:
Sunday we were supposed to play basketball with Kojiro’s drinking/basketball club friends (more about that later). But because of rain it was cancelled, and we ended up going to Ikebukuro on Yamanoto line (the one circling the city).
The date started out with some Korean food, which I love, and Kojiro not so much (it’s [...]

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Dating in Japan and Tokyo Tech labs

Posted in Dates, Tokyo Tech on 25 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Friday 19/6:
I would like to write a little bit about dating in Japan. Not a manual or something like that, just a little bit about what Kojiro and me have been doing on our free time together lately, the little time we have together at least.
It’s not that I am to busy, being a exchange [...]

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Tea ceremony again

Posted in Japanese Culture, Tokyo Tech on 24 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Friday 12/6:
Friday, it was time to experience a second tea ceremony (you can read about my first one here, in Norwegian that is). This time related to the Topics of Japan class, that is a part of the YSEP program. I might have stayed in Japan a bit to long since I am actually getting [...]

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Factory Study Tours to JAXA and Asahi brewery

Posted in Tokyo Tech, YSEP People on 20 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wednesday 10/6 and Wednesday 8/7:
Part of the YSEP program consists of something called Factory Study Tours, or FST. Every second week or so, we all go inn a buss to some factory, and learn about the Japanese industry. I am gone write a little bit about our last two study tours, just because they brought [...]

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Ghibli museum again

Posted in Dates, Tokyo, YSEP People on 18 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sunday 7/6:
Sunday I ended up going to Ghibli museum again, together with some YSEP students, Japanese friends and Kojiro.
You are of course allowed to take pictures outside the museum, even if you can’t take them inside, and since the wheatear was actually nice this time I got a lot of nice pictures. There is for [...]

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Dogs in Japan

Posted in Japanese Culture on 11 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ok, it’s almost a month since I last wrote in this blog, so sorry about that. I guess I have lost the “wanting to tell everyone back home about everything I experience over here” spirit a little. Besides I am busy enjoying my last months here, which is a valid reason I think :P But [...]

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