Matsuri at Yushima Shrine

I've been living in Japan for a while now and I started to miss blogging.
I actually have to stay up late because my hostsister hates being alone and she's in an exam session... so I have some time to waste on my computer. I'd also like to change the style of my blog for this, we'll see...
I also want to post about my trip to Seoul as soon as I'll get my pictures


So, let's go back to yesterday at the Yushima Shrine, which is dedicated to Tenjin, the God of... learning~.




I went there with my hostfamily, their friends and also met Sayuri (a friend from Malta) at the station




Sayuri was a good teacher and explained me all the praying ritual




I also got this omamori from my hostmosther to bring me luck into my travels. She bought a study omamori for her oldest daughter too.
She told me if my plane crash, she will never buy her omamori there again... *ahem*




Sayuri also suggested to get our omikuji (kind of fortunes... ?) while everyone was buying food and drinks.
I already tried once with my other friend from Malta, Yuki, when I was in Nagoya




I wasn't especially curious but the content surpised me as it was veerryy similar to the past one, except my level of luck was higher.





Findind some treasure in other people's wish




An ancient Japanese mesure




That chibiko is actually so proud of her size she uses it for most of her urls (but she was wearing platforms that day)




And here is my hostmother on the left. I'm next to her friend Miya who also welcomes foreign students into her house~.
I actually spend most of my time with them drinking.




Food hunting time ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!!




Very normally enjoying some Korean deliciouness in a Japanese festival, very hot 호떡 (hotteok) ♥





Take a minute or two to look at this fish




I bought something from a stall, and the old woman also handed me that kind of meat pancake she was cooking and said it was offered, then asked Sayuri to translate for me haha. Thank you おばあさん, but even if I didn't speak Japanese, that wasn't a difficult one.
Anyway, she was very cute and her food was delicious ♥







With just Sayuri and my oldest hostsister, Kotone we left for Ikebukuro to find a birthday present for "our" youngest sister.





We also took some purikura along the way.
Those "Focus, guys" and "Calm down" are famous sentences from our English teacher in Malta (even though Sayuri and I never shared the same class or even level)






I also met EXO on a random shop of span style="color: #e165a0;">Kotone we left for Sunshine City （￣▽￣）=３




The day ended with an English lesson in Mister Donut with Koto's friend, Rena before saying bye to Sayuri and going home.


So many things happened, it feels like 2 different days.
But I could buy Akane's birthday present

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Next year.

So many little things happened lately. I'm trying to blog about them one by one but time goes by so fast and I'm leaving my dear Belgium soon.
I've been talking about it for a while now and maybe you catched a glimpse into my last post or via twitter.

I am going to spend the upcoming year in Malta and Japan ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!!

There are shitty quality phone pictures my dad sent me ⇈

Precisely,
I'm leaving for Malta on September 14th, and already coming back on December 7th.
I'll be living for 3 months in St. Julian with other students and following English classes at EC school.

Then I come back home, go skiing one week in France for the New Year, and leave for Japan.

My flight for Tokyo is planned for the 11th of January to have my first classes the next Tuesday.
I'll be living in a Japanese family and going to the Kudan school located near Akihabara.

Because of visa difficulties, I'll also get to spend some days in Seoul between March and April (☆｡☆)
And for this, I'll need your advices. But we'll see later.

I come back to Belgium, once and for all, at the beginning of July. After my 21st birthday.

(as posted on my instagram)
I'm also working out more. I've been avoiding bikinis for a long time, which wasn't very difficult in Belgium. But I need to buy one to go to Malta and I want to feel comfortable in my body to fully enjoy shopping in Japan (-^□^-)

⇒ Also, Mutsumi from mutsuminism obtained an intership in Tokyo for the same period. I'm so glad to have a chance to meet her next year and to go around with a fellow European o(^▽^)o

Of course, I plan to keep on blogging there. I hope it won't become too difficult (^▽^;)

Backpacking in Bologna - Day 3

Okay this is the last day of our short trip in Bologna.
I'm in the middle of my exams but I'm feeling a urge to blog recently! Anyway I passed maths, French, Dutch and economics already. YAY!!

Enjoy (^o^)
(first day here and second here)




This is the mess of our room, after only one night spent there.



And I'm always the last one to be ready...





It was very different from the first hotel but I liked this one as well. It reminded me of the guest house back in Japan.






We had breakfast at the bakery next to the house. And my dad even ordered pastries (^o^). I'm usually not allowed to eat unhealthy food because we get fat easily (>_>).









For the last day we visited the University of Bologna. It was very interesting, though I should really improve my Italian. There was this class visiting and their teacher was playing the guide, but I had a hard time to understand...




For lunch we trusted the Use-It again, but the restaurant was still closed so we had a spritz nearby.
We were trying to take a picture raising the camera with the map, and a homeless person offered us his packet of cigarette (which you can see on the photo). Sadly the camera didn't focus on us but I still like the picture (^w^)




The restaurant was a really surprise.
While following the Use-It, we are never sure about the choice. We always think "but the description sounds weird" or "maybe this time won't be a good place", hesitating until the last minute.





It's a very small place. Only 4 or 5 people can eat inside. The owner, her mother and her grandmother are making fresh pasta in the kitchen behind the counter.
There are tables outside but not theirs. You can tell the owner you'll sit there or at a café nearby and she'll bring your pasta with plastic forks there.



I can still feel the awesome taste of the pumpkin filling. Maybe my favourite place to eat out of these 3 days! And my best takeaway food experience ever







Walking back to the center of Bologna, we also said goodbye to the Two Tours.




A last ice cream (not the best tho) and we headed back to the airport.



Goodbye Eataly! Until next time!


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