I'm sorry for my late post, but there where some things I had to
manage before I could take my time to write a post. I'm in Japan for about 1 1/2
weeks and I really like it, although everything isn't perfect of course.
I came to Japan on Saturday the 1 September. First thing I noticed. September here is
still very, very hot. In Munich (I had to change my plane because there is no direct
flight from Hamburg to Tokyo), it was raining and only about 12 °C. It was also raining
in Tokyo, but with a temperature of about 30°C. So when I arrived, it was very jime jime (humid) and everyone was finished. I already wanted to get a cellphone at Narita (I still had
my phone from last year, so I thought that I only had to buy a prepaid card), but my phone
didn't work anymore due to the fact that I didn't use it for one whole year. So I had to renew it,
but I'm only 19 and you become adult with 20 in Japan, so I had to go to my new home without new cellphone. I live in Toyocho now. that's in Koto-ku (near Chiba) at the east of Tokyo. I'm still with my old family, but they moved from Shin Koiwa to Toyocho, so I had to learn the new train connections. The last years I always went with JR (Japan Railways). That is quite easy because you have a line for almost every important station (like Shibuya, Shinjuku etc.).
This time I have to take the subway. So I got a plan with all the lines and I already started to learn it by heart. (I already know that I have to use the Tozai line and change for the Ginza line at Nihonbashi to go to Shibuya *g*)
When I arrived at Toyocho train station I didn't know where to go, so I phoned my host mother who was at work and asked where to go. She told me "go to the second exit and search for a taxi driver. Show him the adress and he will take you there." I did what she told me to do, but I was a little bit difficult for the taxidriver to find the house first. After he asked all the neighbourhood we finally found the building. I rang the bell 'cause my host mother told me before that there was another german student at home, but he didn't notice me because he drank too much the night before and was sleeping. So I asked a stuff if she could open the door to enter the building and started to knock wild when I arrived at my appartement. He finally heard me and opened. The first thing I thought of was "I want to get a new softbank mobile phone" hahahaha. It's very important for me to contact all my friends, so I wrote a message to my host mother and she told me that she already got a phone for me. So I didn't have to leave the house for the rest of the day.
First I thought that I wasn't tired at all, but when I lay down on my bed I fell asleep at once. And I slept the whole rest of the day till the evening when my host mother came home. We talked a lot, she gave me the cellphone and I contacted all my friends who were just waiting for my mail.
It was very difficult to sleep the first night cause I already slept the whole day and I had a problem with the difference of the time. (In summer there are 7 hours of difference, in winter 8). So I stayed awake the whole night till I finally fell asleep at about 4 am.
I'm here for 6 months to make working holiday, what means that I have to search for a job to pay the rent (what means the host family). I thought that it would be nice to have a job at the beginning of the month, so I wouldn't have to care about money. So I went to Shibuya the next day and asked at Shibuya 109. Shibuya 109 is a departement store with ( I think) the most beautiful shops in the whole world. They sell everything, from casual (moussy) to cute dresses like liz Lisa or sexy ganguro style like d.i.a.. I asked at the shops my looks would fit the most and got some information from the shop stuff. I got a sheet from moussy with information about working time and payment. It was about 40 hours of work during a week and 900 yen(about 9 euro) for one hour. And I noticed that it's the same management with all the other shops at Shibuya 109. I think that it's quite good, so I really want that job. I also ask around at ladymade and minir deez, they gave me information and the shop assistant of minir deez even took a picture of me to send it to the head of the brand. She also told that she would contact me, but i still didn't get an answer from her. >_<
Afterwards I went to Harajuku to ask aroung at Takeshitadori (the avenue where all the shops are). I had a "style shoot" for a fashion blog and they uploaded my picture and data yesterday, but I look terrible on the photos. The fashionblog shows the most "kawaii" models for brands like ANAP etc. but I don't look kawaii at all on the pictures, so I don't think that they will take me. hahahaha XD
http://fanblogs.jp/jfeniex/archive/105/0
I also made a new friend (male of course)who invited me to drink a juice with him (I took maccha of course, green milk-tea). We already changed mobile phone addresses, but I have a boyfriend now (it's my ex-bf mr. te hehehehe) and when I told him about that he didn't answer anymore. That's typical here. *lol*
Anyway, when I got home I bought a sheet at Lawson's to write a rirekisho (curriculum vitae). I had some difficulties because I wrote "too german" like my host father said. I wrote "I want to work at moussy because I like the fashion, I modeled in Germany for one year, so I understand fashion very well etc." but my host father told me that I should write it in a japanese way, like "I worked as a model in Germany for one year and I got in touch with fashion, also japanese brands. Since I fell in love with them, I want to learn many things about japanese brands and I found you, moussy san, which is the most beautiful brand in the world. I would be very honored if I could see myself working in a fashionable store like yours... etc." Oh well, that's very exagerated, but if japanese people do it like that...
Afterwards I sent my curriculum vitae to the main quarter of the brand (I already sent two), but I still didn't get an answer. I was very worried, so I asked my friends and my host family and they told me that it takes a lot, a lot of time till you get an answer from a japanese firm. When I really have to wait for weeks, I will have finished all my money even before having started to work. That worries me a lot. But I will try to think positive and hope that I'll get an answer in the next few days.
The following day I went to Shibuya and got a lot of information for modeling jobs from scouts. I went to an agency called alpha core, which is probably one of the best agencies in Tokyo. They told made that they'd take me immediatly, but, what's normal for japanese agencies, I would have to pay them before. It's also the same in Germany, so I thought it wouldn't cost more than 50 euro, but hell, when I saw the price I was just shocked. 78.000 yen (about 780!!! euro) to join the agency. The costs would be so high because I would start to work as a model, singer (like all this stupid little girls from akb) and actor for movies and japanese dorama. But WTF, 78.000 yen are way too much. I only have 20.000 yen left for now and I would have to work for ages to manage to pay them. When I told them that it was "muri" (impossible) they asked me if I could return to them when I lived in Japan for my whole life, so after university. I said yes, so they already prepaired my profile for 2016/2017 hahahaha XD
After that I met a scout who searched for half japanese models. He thought that I also was half, so he started to talk to me and said afterwards "it's okay. As long as we can ship you as a half japanese , and you really look like that, you will gain a lot of money". He even gave me the contract and it looked like I didn't have to pay anything, but I canceled the contract already after a few days because the agency seemed quite odd to me. They didn't have any information on the internet, the telephone number he gave me didn't exist (only in Australia) and the shooting should take place in another building than written on their information. When I phoned him he told me, that they were new, so they didn't have any information, but before that he said that they already had any contracts with japanese famous magazines like men's egg, so I canceled the contract before I should get into problems. (Cause I heared that these so-called agencies are often lead by the yakuza. They try to catch girls with modeling contracts and use them afterwards as prostitutes.) o.O
After one day of gorogoro (doing nothing, only sleeping and lying lazy in the bed) I met my two best friends Minami (Nozomi) and Hanabi (Ayako). I always call them with their usernames. *lol* We went to eat some pizza and I told them about Italy, especially about italian boys and showed them the pictures of my cousain and his best friend Corrado. They fell in love with both of them and asked me the whole time. "What is your cousain(Corrado) doing?Doesn't he want to come to Japan?etc." It was very funny. We also took cute purikura at Ikebukuro and went to some cosplay shops. I saw some wonderful cosplays I will get when I finally have the money.
1. Karina from Tiger and Bunny
2. Blue Rose from Tiger and Bunny
3. Kasuga from Sengoku Basara
4. Da Qiao from Dynasty warriors 5
5. Himiko from Warriors orochi
6. Roxas from Kingdom Hearts 2
I promised my sis that I would cosplay Roxas for her because that's her favourite character, but I can't spend my money for "nonsense" like Cosplay right now. Btw, I phoned the moussy shop today and asked about my curriculum vitae and that I wanted to work soon and I asked if they could hurry up. they told me at the telephone that they normally take about 3 weeks, but they will try to decide as soon as possible. If I would get the job, it would mean that I could only start next month. And that would mean that I could get problems with my money. I decided to write another curriculum vitae and I hope that I will get a job very soon.
Last friday I met with my boyfriend Mr. Te ( XD). His name is Tetsuya, but when I wrote about him in public I always call him mr. te. It was a great date, we met at Shibuya Hachiko and went to a restaurant where they also sold Tiramisu. It was quite expensive, but he paid for everything, so it#s okay. I recognized that in comparison to Europe, in japan still the boys pay for the girls, what is very, very good. That doesn't mean that women have less rights, that just means that boys still have to do something for the girl, at least spend a lot of money to go out with the girl they like. Afterwards we went to the game center and he won for me a small, white bear, that looks like Rilakkuma. And when I told him that he looked like pedobear (first I also had to explain him what pedobear is) he laughed and said that that wasn't a hentai bear, but the small brother of Rilakkuma. *lol* I didn't know that he knew so well about that.
We talked a lot and he asked me to give him some german lesson. He was very proud that he knew the alphabeth, the ß (what is NOT a b), letters like ä,ö,ü and the destination of Germany. He only failed about the size of Germany (he thought that Germany had the size of the USA hahahahahaha XD)
He had broken his foot while he went to the kickboxing training, so he has to go to the doctor's every day. But we made up to meet next week again. So I'm very dokidoki XDDDD
The last two days I met with friends. One was from Fukuoka (that is at the south of Japan and doesn't have to do anything with Fukushima, just for the one's who mix up the names) and we talked a lot about cosplay and Purikura. We met at Akihabara and also entered many shops. But... ugh... I don't like Akihabara that much anymore. The last years there were many goods of video games, but now you only see breasts of manga and anime characters who have baby faces and maids who are ugly like hell. >_<
And now they don't even have many Final Fantasy goods anymore. I went to animate with my friend ( a goods shop) and they only sold things of Uta no Prince sama, Tiger and Bunny, Madoka Magica and -uuuuhh- I found one Final Fantasy Lightning statue and that was all. >_< Next time I'll search for goods at Ikebukuro. There are less maids, less breasts and more Final Fantasy and Date Masamune goods hahahaha XD
Yesterday I met with a german friend who visited the same language school like me three years ago. We went through Shibuya and made a bit fun of the strange trousers japanese boys use to wear. There was a guy who wore trousers that looked like a tent, in skyblue with strange, naked red haired dolls. *lol* And he walked through Shibuya like he was a boss or something. And the boys who got on our nerves and asked for a date didn't end. We were sitting in front of Hachiko, , when one after another came and tried to talked to us in a bad English. Hahahaha, the first really scared me because he appeared so suddenly. And than he started to talk like: "Hello, you are adorable. I'm waiting for my friends, meanwhile I thought that we could spend some time together." My friend started to laugh when she saw my strange face and I acted like not speaking English nor japanese. The second shared some flyers and was even old, but still asked for a date. And when we said, "urusai", which means "you get on our nerves", he walked away. Immediatly the next group of boys came, we sent them away, and afterwards the old man returned and asked if I would have changed my mind. After that day I was sooooo tired. I returned home, fell asleep and woke up this morning at half past 9. *lol*
Well, that's all for now. Let's see what the next days bring. And please pray for me that I get this stupid job.
Byebye!!
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