Day 75: Shopping in Shibuya

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So today I only had Global Mindset for first period. I still find the course a little weird, because it's not very "set". It's a lot of talking about experience, culture and communication. But EVERYTHING is from your own and others perspective. There is no "facts" or "data" what so ever in this course. It's an interesting consept, but still very unfamiliar. Maybe it's just me not being used to this kind of class, or maybe it is indeed weird. But we did play cards today, which I though was funny. Especially was it funny that we could speak after everyine got the rules. But what we didn't know was that the different groups got different rules. So when we had to switch places (still no talking), we had to figure out what was going on because something was "wrong" in the card game. So it was interesting how you figure out how you communicate about the cards without talking! I did manage to know the "new" rule by using a "thumb up" and "thumb down" motion. It was only one in the group that understood what I was "asking" about, so it only took 10-15 seconds before I could play with the "new rules". 

After class I took the train to Meidaimae to meet Penny, Manon and Shen. But I was a little early so I relaxed in the waiting room at the station. Quite randomly a japanese guy begins to talk to me. He asks about the ususal: where are you from, what are you doing here, etc. It turned out that he is fluent in english so we spoke in both japanese and english. He seemed like a very nice guy! I then a little later meet up with my friends, and we all (including the japanese guy) take the train to Shibuya. He worked there so we said our goodbyes but we added each other on Line. It always makes me a little unsure when random guys talk to me and want to add me on social medias. Do they really want to be friends? Hmm.. Either way: Penny, Menon, Shen and I were ready for shopping! 

We also saw a pet store, and we all think it's terrible that they are kept in such small containers, separated from the others...

We also had to eat

I don't know how many hours we shopped, but we were TIRED! So much stuff~

We also met these sweet people

 I have insane muscle ache from exercising, so poor Manon had to help me in the stairs! HAHAHA! Just like an old lady! We actually had plans to go out to eat korean BBQ, but we were too tired, and Shen wasn't feeling too good...

Here is todays catch. It's not showing too good, but I got one legging, one legging shorts, one normal shorts, workout pants, baggy fake "jeans", two dresses, one shirt, head eccessories, one t-shirt and two pairs of shoes. It wasn't until I took this picture that almost everything is grey and black! Hmm... Either it's black/grey or lolita, haha! 

Tomorrow, Jimmy and I have been together for 2 months, which makes me feel so young. Haha, celebrating 2 months, it's like being a teenager again (and I'm talking like I'm 40...). So this time it's me who's going to plan the date ^_^ So I'll see what I can come up with~

Day 50 and 51: Cafe Fuglen and relaxing

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Friday 27th

So today Jimmy and I went to a Norwegian Cafe called Fuglen 
https://www.facebook.com/Fuglen.Tokyo/info?tab=overview
To get there we took the train to Harajuku and walked through Yoyogi Park. The weather was awesome today so there were even more people there! 

We bought nikuman!  

 So bright!

 We enjoyed our drink out in the sun, and it was so relaxing! 

 We went into some store on the way back, and we found a huge Tokyu Hands-store

Later, Jimmy and I went to sing karaoke for the first time together! It was a lot of fun, especially since they had my favourite song at the moment "Uptown Funk". After karaoke we went out to Izukaya to eat with Steffi and some more people from the House. 

Saturday 28th

So I slept till almost 13.00! Haha! It's just been a lazy day with Jimmy. We saw many episodes of Supernatural, studied some japanese, went out to eat in Shibuya, then went to Jimmys place.

tomorrow I'm meeting my Japanese friend Hironao, and later I'm having a picnic with Jimmy to see the Sakura trees in full bloom!

じゃ、またね！

。ビッキー。

Day 43: Bleaching my hair!

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So today I got my hair cut and coloured blonde!
I was originally gonna colour my hair this blonde ombre style:

 Now, it's not bad, but it's not what I wanted:

But did you think the hairdresser could do this in one try? OF COURSE NOT! 

I knew that they didn't speak english, so I brought a picture with me to show the hairdresser!
Steffi was with me to the hairdresser and I showed the picture (above) to the one doing my hair. "From dark to blonde" is what we said "gradation", "like the picture", in Japanese. You can't go wrong when you have a picture with you, right? WRONG! He asked where I wanted the gradation to start, and I said about 8-10 cm from the top, like the picture. He then made bleach and started to bleach my hair. But the thing I though was weird was that he bleached all my hair that was 8-10 cm away form the top of my head... But that's not the technique you use when you want an ombre effect (from dark to light)... One of the methods (that I know of) is that you bleach the tips, let it set, then bleach a little further up, let it set, bleach a little more up, let it set, etc till you reach the desired length of the ombre. Then it will be lightest at the bottom and gradually darker towards the top. But as I said, he bleached the whole length. When it was "done" he washed my hair and put a treatment in it (which I paid for). Then, he blow dried it and it looked like this:

It looked like I at some point bleached all my hair yellow, then let it grow out! HOW IS THIS EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO THE PICTURE I SHOWED!? Then the battle of explaining why this isn't good enough started. Because he apparently didn't see what the problem was... We then explained that the part where it goes from dark (my natural haircolor) to blonde needs to be more gradient. This is just bleaching the hair blonde! He then had to talk to the other hairdresser to figure out what to do. The thing is that WE had to say what he had to do, instead of him giving us alternatives to what he can do to fix it. Steffi then asked what they where going to do and she got the answer "color it", like: yeah! we got that part, but WHAT are you gonna do with the coloring? So we explained many times what part of the hair that need to be fixes. But for some reason they started to color almost all my bleached hair. And I though "you don't need to do that much, just the transition", or else it STILL won't be a gradation... Well, it didn't turn out too bad, but it wasn't what I wanted as I said. It's more silver and blonde rather than blonde ombre... 

At this point I don't what him to cut me a hairstyle, so I just got my ends trimmed by 1-2 cm... So yeah! That was my experience with a Japanese hairdresser! Steffi did her hair in the same salon but with a different hairdresser and her hair ended up as she wanted! So maybe I just got a shitty hairdresser?

When you feel like the costumer isn't satisfied you do or give something to compensate, right? Wrong again! Still the full price as if I was the happiest costumer ever... I asked for a discount.. Yes, I actually did it! And he got a little flustered. Then I got the whole 1500 yen off (100 kroner), which is not a lot thinking it cost me 17.900 yen after taxes...  (I paid 16.400 yen)

Then when I later was going to Jimmy's place I was waiting for the train, and guess what.. I couldn't find my phone! I didn't remember if I left it somewhere or someone had taken it from my purse. So I ran back to the hairdresser and luckily it was there. Then I ran back to the station, traveled in a cramped train for 15 minutes, then I met jimmy at the station. Needless to say, very tired! It took me 2,5 hours (17:00 - 19:30) at the hairsalon and I hadn't eaten dinner yet...

Anyway... Jimmy and I are going to Odaiba tomorrow!

じゃ、またね！
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Day 38: Yoyogi Park

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So today Jimmy and I went to Yoyogi Park and Shibuya.

After using some time to pick an outfit (because I love everything I bought yesterday) I was hoping to see some cosplayers or harajuku fashion, but there was so few! I think it's less today than for some years ago... 

Either way, we went to Yoyogi Park which is one of Tokyo's largest parks. There was a nice man that offered to take our picture. Too bad of all the stuff around the gate...

In Shibuya we ate lunch/dinner and tried to look for a backpack for Jimmy. I may have done some more shopping :P Not much though. A skirt, a cardigan, socks and some aaccessories.

 We went to Jimmy's place "early" so he had time to study before his test on Wednesday. We ate some food and watched supernatural. So while I'm blogging he's studying :)

じゃ、またね！
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