Till now

Hi guys, sorry for my very late post. I just didn't find the right minute to answer. I was busy or too exhausted to write a new entry. *lol* Well, here I am. It's about 11 pm here now and I should go to bed soon, but since I don't have any other plans tomorrow I can stay awake for longer.

The last week was very... taihen. *lol* I had to finish all the burocracy because those monkeys at Narita didn't write my adress on the residence card. I went to the UFJ bank near Toyocho station to open an account, but I couldn't because there wasn't written my adress and I didn't have an inkan (my personal stamp). When i asked where I could get that inkan, the stuff couldn't help me. about the problem with the residence card she said: "oh, you can also let it write down by your host family or friends, as long as a japanese habitant writes down the adress it's okay." I believed her words and went back home, where my host family wrote down the adress on the card. I only had to get a stamp from the regional office than.
But the office already closed at 5pm, so I decided to make my stamp first. I went to Ito yokado department store (Is it called like this, don't remember the name) in Kiba and talked to the shop stuff. She said that it would take 2-3 weeks to make my stamp. WTF, that would take years. And the stamps they made also costed about 100 euro!!! so I went to another department store the next day after my host mother's korean lesson (she's teaching korean) and we made a stamp for 10 euro in 5 minutes. Fair enough. I wrote down Maria in Katakana, it looks quite cool. ;)

Next day I went to the regional office, where I got an heart attack because they got very severe when they saw that my host family wrote the adress on my card. they said, that this was forbidden. There was no other way of solving the problem by making a new residence card at the tokyo regional immigration bureau at shinagawa. I though they could simply cancel the first adress, but japanese rules are a litte bit weird, so the next day I had to go to shinagawa (all the fun costed me 3000yen of train money!!!) and make a new residence card. and not only the money, I had to wait 3 hours till I got my new card. What's the deal with the new card? It's exactly the same like the older one, only without the adress at the back written by my family. 

That was a bad joke. Following day I returned to the regional office, they stamped my card after the wrote down the adress (wow, what a difference! *lol*) and afterwards I could open an account at UFJ bank. My book is quite nice, it has disney characters hahahha. looks very awesome...

Oh, by the way, I had a meeting last Friday with the owner of min plum at shibuya 109. I phoned them and gave them my curriculum vitae. What kind of feeling I have after the meeting? I don't know... he owner had such a poker face. At the beginning he asked me where I lived and when I answer he said:"argh, that's quite far away." I was like "Omg, yeah, already failed at the beginning." But afterwards when he read my curriculum vitae he said that he liked my language skills XD I hope that is a good message. They'll reply on Friday and tell me if I get the job or not. I'm very worried 'cause I don't know whether the meeting was good or bad and I really want that job because I'm out of money. Autumn comes and I only took summer clothes with me. I don't even have a jacket and it became quite cold the other day. I think i also caught a cold. :(

So please pray for me that I will get that stupid job!!!

Another story, I met a student of the LaMer make up school at Shibuya called Saori. She's practicing her skills to become a professional make up artist and she asked me to be her model. We met to make a bride make up rehearsel, she did it quite well. her teacher's were very friendly and they took lots of pictures. Would be cool if they were available the next days. 

http://www.lamermakeup.com/schoollife.html

this is the homepage of the school. There are quite cool pictures of very beautiful models. I'd like to do a shooting like this soon :)

Today I didn't do anything interesting. My boyfriend told me to watch the anime Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, so I watched it the whole day. My internet connection is very bad (I was without internet the last 4 days), so it took the whole day to watch all the episodes and I'm still not done. The last one is missing. I'll watch it tomorrow cause I don't have plans for tomorrow. When I started the anime I thought like: "WTF, my boyfriend is watching that kind of stuff? Is he gay?" *lol* but the more you go into the story, the more you want to watch it. Maybe you've already heard or read about that, it's very popular these days.

Things that really make me angry *lol*

Minna sama, konbanwa!

I'm in Japan for 2 and a half weeks now and I really enjoy being here.
Still, there are some things that make me just think: "WHY?" or "WTF!!"

Last week a saw a very strange show in television (haha, it's funny to write this cause actually every show here is just strange. I hate watching tv here *lol*). It was about "what makes you idols angry".
When you talk in Japan about idols, they mean people you never saw before, korean popstars and akb members *lol* Well, of course it was stupid, but it made me think about what makes me angry and I found some things that were typical for my anger in Japan hahahaha.

First of all the burocracy here is terrible. To get internet you need to wait 2 weeks, for an answer after you sent your curriculum vitae you wait 2 weeks, when you want to prepare a stamp you have to wait two weeks. I though that Japan was always known as a very fast country. o.O Today I was quite pissed of. I went to the bank to open an account for my work. I still didn't find a job, but if I got one, I would need a japanese account. There they told me that I couldn't open an account without inkan (stamp), what is like a signature here in Japan. So I asked the women at the bank, she looked at me as if I was dumb and said."shoushou omachi kudasai (please wait a second)". she went to another women, they discussed about half an hour, than she came back and told me. "I'm sorry, I can't help you. You should ask your host family." WTF! And for that answer I had to wait about 30 minutes? I messages my host mother, she answered that I could make it at the shops where they also sell pens etc. So I went there and asked for a stamp. First half an hour of discussion, afterwards. "We're sorry, but we don't make stamps with the alphabeth."
I answered: "it's okay, I can also have one in katakana."
so I wrote down my name in Katakana. In Japan a stamp consists (when you want it in Katakana) usually of fours signs. But how should I know which signs were the right ones to choose? Should I choose two from my first name and two from my surname? I asked, the discussed and afterwards there was the answer. "I'm sorry, I don't know. Please go to the bank and ask how it's okay for them." GRRRRRR... When they work in a shop that is specialized on stamps, shouldn't they know better? Or do I think too german? I went back to the bank and it was closed. AT 5 pm!!! Don't they work at all? I was soooo angry... >_< I will have to make all this nonsense tomorrow.

Second point that gets really on my nerves. The boys. There are minimum 7 boys a day who ask for a date. WTF! Just some examples of today. I was sitting in the centre of Shibuya near Shibuya 109 and wrote textmessages to my friends, when one of those supercool japanese guys came. He surely needed 3 hours to style his hair like this. He looked a little bit like my boyfriend, but 20 cm smaller *lol* I have a boyfriend now, so I don't care for other boys and I know that in Shibuya are mostly player, so when he sat down next to me I went away before he could start a conversation. Short before I arrived at mcDonald there was this typical "sumimaseeeeeeen!", which terrifies me because it means that there is another guy who wants to date you. And yeeees, it was the same guy who wanted to sit down next to me. My thoughts: "Ehm, when a girl goes away when you sit next to her, doesn't that mean that she is not interested?"
But I kept friendly and answered "I'm sorry, I'm very busy."
He kept telling: "Oh, it only takes 5 minutes." My thoughts: "Yeah, 5 minutes to love hotel you player. I know that kind of guy..."
I: "I'm sorry, I have a boyfriend." (This is the typical way to say, not interested, I already used it when I was still single XD)
He: "Oh, I don't care..." I got so angry. First of all, when you don't care it means that you even don't try to become my boyfriend. You only want "asobu, meeeeeku rabu", how bad are you?
I told him that he should get his back out of my sight (in a friendlier tone of course XD) and went down to McDonald, where I met the next strange, strange guy. The other one was a player, but the McDonald guy was even scary!! I sat down and ate my hamburger (yeah, sexy a girl that's eating hamburger) when he sat next to me and started to stare at me. I was short before saying "you have a problem?", but I kept on eating when he started with "sumimaseeeeeeen..." GRRRRR, I ignored him. He looked away and I thought: Puuuuh, he doesn't seem to be interested anymore..." But when I got up to leave I saw that he also got up. NOOOO!! So I hurried up and ran down the street where many people where. "Now he can't even try to speak to me, cause I'm gone with the wind." were my thoughts, but than I saw that he followed me and starred at me like I was an alien or something. I ran into a shop and he still followed me! That scared me to death. He stalked me till I met a friend on the road and we went into a coffee shop. She also took me to the main station cause I was scared that the guy would follow me to my train. He lost my trace , lucky me...
The next guy who really made me angry was when I recognized that the bank was closed. There came a guy and said: "Oh, the bank is closed. If you want to enter, than you have to go that way." I first thought. "Thank you, what a nice guy...", but suddenly he took my hand and wanted me to follow him. I got angry and shouted. "hey, I'm a foreigner, but I'm not stupid! I can find the other entrance! And who allowed you to touch my hand!" hahaha, his face bleached from one second to another. Sometimes I really ask myself what these guys think... o.O

Another strange story is about a guy from Osaka I met when I was on a walk through Shibuya. I didn't want to go to the coffee shop with him, I'm not interested at all. He is one of the guys who talk, talk, talk and when you take a look around your suddenly in another place hahahaha XD
And yes, he talked withaout a break and told me, that he liked host club style, and he wore the clothes, but he wasn't a host but a model. Sure...
He asked me for my phone number and I woul'd like to bite myself into my back for giving him the number. Since that moment I got mails everyday, about his ex-girlfriend, how he liked me etc, till yesterday morning. I got up to read my mails, when I received one with the text. "Oh Minnie, I know you have a bf, but i really love you. I want to spend every single hour with you, so I would be pleased if you would take me as your second bf. It's okay for me to be the number 2, as long as I can spend time with you." (nice rhyme lol)
WHAAAAAT? NOOOO!!! First of all, my bf would never allow it, second, I would feel like a b**** and third point... NOOO! There is a word called proud. Did he never hear of that??? I already tried to explain that I don't feel anything for him, but he doesn't seem to understand...

Well, after I wrote abou things that make me angry, I show you some things that made me smile. :)

Some nights ago I wrote the whole night with my boyfriend. He's often busy with work, so we don't chat often for a long time, but that day he seemed to miss me a lot hahaha. When he writes he's always cute, but he never is the type who writes many hearts, he seems to be quite shy. What makes me even more happy, when I receive a mail like that in the middle of the night.

I won't translate it, the one's who can read japanese will understand it anyway. ;) But I was so happy, I stil feel drunk of love hahahaha XD 

Another thing that made me smile (in a negative way) was when I went to Shibuya 109-2 with my german friend. 109-2 is the same like Shibuya 109, only for men. So there are sexy smexy shop assistants hahaha XD We went there to take a look at the men's fashion and what we saw was just... CREEPY HAHAHA!!!

Hello Kitty... for MEN?! Who would wear that? My bf's birthday is next month, if I had the money, I would buy him these shorts as a present. Just a joke of course. I can't imagine that they sell those in one of the coolest shops of Tokyo. Boys really ARE different here. My european female friends all were like "Gosh, terrible!" . My japanese friends said. "Oh, how cuuuute!!"...

Hm... I don't want a cute guy, I want a masculine macho hahaha XD Pink and hello kitty, no thank you ^^'

Aaaaaaaand, yes, I don't have money, but I bought new shoes at the Body Line Shop in Harajuku Takeshita Dori. I need them for my presentation when I get a job and for my date on Saturday ^^'

Hahaha, grandma's shoes!! No, I liked them very much, also because they are a little bit higher what makes the leg seem longer XD They were available in black, black white, white and pink (and brown) but my Liz Lisa dress that i want to wear is white brown, so I think it's quite good to have them in that color. they only cost 3999 yen which is veeeeery cheap in comparison to Shibuya 109.

Oh, what I forgot to say, i had a meeting with my friend Saori from the La Mer make up school today. I'm going to model for her, we will me on Thursday morning at 9 in front of Hachiko, so that we can go to the make up school together. 

And I even don't have to be scared of make up that ruins my skin cause since i'm in Japan my sin looks much better. I don't know if it's because it's so humid or the food, but I'm very satisfied.

no make up, no edit, I took the photo short before I went to sleep :) Can't wait to work together with Saori lalalala!! That's gonna be great!

Okay, I'll go to bed now cause I have to get up early tomorrow!

Oyasuminasai!! <3

Japan week 1

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!!