Hey guys ~

Greetings from the cold Germany. I haven't been here for almost six months and so I enjoy being home a lot.

I have finally found a great present for Yoshi. Since I've bought him his beloved Vivienne Westwood wallet last Christmas, it was difficult to choose what kind of present would be good this year...and happily I have found the right one ^-^
Anyway, pictures will follow on Christmas.

I have also bought more than 7kg (!) of Christmas sweets...6kg just for my work, Yoshi's work&our friends. 1kg for Yoshi XD He is a chocolate junkie.

On Monday I'm thinking to get myself an IPod Touch since I could use the W-Lan connection in Japan...using Facebook and other things in my free time in train or at my break time would be really nice. Having an IPhone in Japan is really expensive and so I prefer my old&crappy prepaid one instead of paying 7000 Yen per month... XD  Having an IPod Touch could save this money due to my portable W-Lan egg from EMode = free internet ♥

Last night Yoshi and I had a long Skype session. I can't believe that I will return to Japan in just four days...spending one week in Germany is pretty short...I hope next year we both can return and spend at least 10 days here.

Tonight I will decorate the Christmas tree with my family. I am really looking forward to it...while I was an university student&lived in my own apartment I always came home around December 23rd and the tree was already prepared...tonight I will feel like I am 10 years old again ~

Hello guys ~

Hope you had a nice start into the "real" Christmas season... (not the fake one which starts somewhere in the middle of September with annoying Christmas songs and chocolate everywhere XD) ^^

I will return to Germany for one week to visit my family the day after tomorrow. I have brought some special presents here and I hope they will like them.

Today I had work from 9am to 6pm...working on weekends isn't fun. I somehow feel whole Tokyo wants to get a coffee at my Starbucks every weekend XD  Busy as hell. 
So while I was walking to my work place, I had a wonderful meeting with a big, fat, snowy...




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Mount Fuji!

I live on the borderline betweenKangawa&Tokyo...and if I walk 15m from my house I can have a stunning view on Mount Fuji :)

My next update will be from Germany. Hope you will enjoy the trip from the biggest city to my pretty plain home town XD

Since I was too tired to prepare a dinner I simply got myself a fantastic BLT sandwich at the famous bakery close to the station...a great choice.

And I had some time to pimp my camera a little bit. One thing I enjoy about living in Japan is the freedom of decorationg every little thing which you own...while I was in junior high school, most people laughed about my old Nokia cell-phone which was covered with pink glitter stones...yes, totally trashy, but I was in love with it. Here in Japan most people try to individualize their things with decoration stuff...even when you're already far away from being a teenager.
Anyway, I love Disney. And so my camera made a little trip to the Wonderland...
Now I just need a cute case and I am ready for the next photo chances ~~

I was asked if I could make a photo at my work place...
sadly this isn't that easy since I rarely have a break time XD 
But here is a little impression of me at Starbucks ~

And my chibi Peko-kun and his tongue XD

Today I've finally got my Re-Entry permission for my trip to Germany ♥

(for those who don't know well about the Japanese visa system...if you want to leave Japan while having a work/study visa (e.g. Working Holiday visa) you need to get a Re-Entry permission beforehand at the Immigration Bureau. You have to say the date when you leave and when you will come back to Japan and they will make a notice in your passport. If you leave Japan without having a Re-Entry permission, your visa will expire...and you can enter Japan only with a visitors visa which doesn't allow you to stay for long and/or to work. So getting your Re-Entry is a really important thing if you plan to visit your family abroad or if you going on a trip~)

It took a long time...too long acutally. We were so tired in the end...and since we're were starving we went to the nearest Saizeria to enjoy some noodles XD
Later we had to buy some food for Peko. And while we passed by at Labi...I couldn't believe my eyes and fell in love ~ XD  One of the cameras which were on my Christmas wish list were in a Sale with incredible 70% off. The package of the camera was slightly damaged...but who cares about the package?! 
And so I was a bad girl and got myself a new camera today :) 
Since Yoshi's old one had some battery problems, it was really time for a change.

Steffi and I have tried those "Woopie Pies" some days ago...
They are love!! If you see a shop in Tokyo...you have to go and buy some!

One week left until I will leave to Germany ~~ still plenty of things to do ^^"

Hey guys ~~

I have spent a nice Saturday with Yoko, Steffi&Eri ~  2 times purikura on one day...I think I haven't taken two sets for almost four years XD

Today I had work until 7pm ~  and since Yoshi will come back home late due to his Christmas party at his work place, I was making myself some tasty salmon-spinach noodles and now I'm chilling with a nice movie. That's a great way to end a 7 hours work day ~~  actually tomorrow and the day after are my days off :)
In about 10 days I will visit my family in Germany for one week. I'm looking forward to the Christmas market so much ~ but it's still a strange feeling to go back to Germany for such a short time...

And some other nice news: Some days ago I was talking about a job as teacher with a salary of 3000Yen per hour...at first I thought I couldn't accept the offer, but happily the conditions have changed and...I will become a teacher at a new school which is just 30 minutes from my apartment.
My students are little kids and it's more like a child-care-centre, but I am really looking forward to it.
I will start in the middle of January. It's just part-time, but since the salary is really good I will finally able to realize some small wishes like buying stuff for our apartment or going shopping once a week :)
I'll continue working at Starbucks twice a week, too. In this way I will have at least 2200$ per month. Anyway, I will sign the contract on Friday. 2012 will bring some big changes ~~~

Hello ~~

Like some of my followers already know, I have a really big addiction of the combination of " citylights+sea". That's the reason why I love Odaiba, Yokohama and some other places here in Japan.
Yesterday the weather was amazing and we decided to check out Yokohama's Landmark Tower, the biggest building here in Japan. Although I have been to Yokohama plents of times, I have never been there ~ same as Yoshi.
I have to recommend you a shop called "Build a Bear-Workshop", where you can build your own teddy bear (you can find on the 5th floor of the Landmark Tower shopping centre). It's a little bit expensive. With clothes and all stuff about 6000 Yen, but such a cute idea for kids or couples. But since there wasn't much time left we had to stop the idea of making our "hip hop teddy" and visited the 69th floor...which was simply amzing. At the moment there is some kind of "One Piece" exhibition...I don't know well about this manga since the only two manga I have followed in the past are "Nana" and "Bokura ga ita", but it was a big fun to dress up and take some photos ~
Afterwards we had a nice rollercoaster-ride and a tasty dinner ~ and at 10.30pm we finally took the train back home.

Thanks a lot for the many comments of my last post. Sadly the Ukraine has started the official killing of the stray dogs yesterday...a new law says it's ok to kill cats and dogs with poisned food and/or burn them alive....
Happily the Facebook community is growing day by day and some big TV channels in Europe are planning to make some reports. Please don't stop writing to the newspaper of your home town or sending mails to the TV channels...at the moment not many people know about the killing in the Ukraine...but it's important that many people around the world know about this bloody background of the Eurofoot 2012...