Phew! Have I finally gotten everything??

 All the most expensive things I had to buy for my apartment in Japan. Now I've bought them all. I got some things for free too.
May be that I have forgotten to put something on the list

Things and circa(do you say that in Eng?) price in Japanese yen:
Roof lamp x2 10.000
Table 2500
Desk 3000
Desk chair 3500
Gas stove 12.000
Refrigirator 12.800
Bed 9000
Bedding 1500
Futon 4000
Tatami chair 1000
Vacuum cleaner 3000
Clothes rack 1500 (?)
Table lamp 1500
Shipping 6000 (maybe more)

Total price around 71.300 yen
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Hmm.. I guess I shouldn't complain. I would've had to pay a lot more money if it had been in Sweden. Plus, I think an iPhone is still more expensive than all this together!

My new apartment in Japan - pics!

Today I went to my new Japanese apartment today. I've been going there several times now but I wont move permanently until the 23/3, so right now I don't have all my stuff there, but I took some pics anyway of how it looks like with the furniture, etc that I bought.

Just some hanger I bought, the size is adjustable

My bed, which I will move to the tatami room later on..

 TV-table I got for free from a friend

Tiny bathroom! 

 Kitchen area (sorry for bad picture)

 Tatami room with a "chair" I got from a recycle shop today

Hallway, genkan

Tatami room, wardrobe, chair-thing

My desk

Tried to get a shot of the whole room..

Graduating!

I graduated from a Japanese Language School! =D

Here is a picture of my awesome class E-Class (いいクラス) which I will now sadly have to say goodbye too because all of us have graduated and are no longer students at Osaka Japanese Lang. Education Center. It's sad but I am sure we will all meet and hang out together again.

After the graduation ceremony, which was quite quick, there was a get together for the students before we all could go off and do whatever we wanted. Which for most people meant to do something together with their class.

My class decided to celebrate in our classroom with some homemade and some store bought food.

They got the pizza people to write "Congratulations E-Class" on the pizzas.

Our previous homeroom teacher also visited with their newborn baby during this time ^-^! But they had to leave after a while.

After the classroom party we went out to karaoke, and we got our current homeroom teacher to come with us too which was really fun.
After karaoke we stood outside just talking for a while. Some people were sad, some were a bit drunk.. lol.

After finally saying goodbye to our teacher and a few class members the remaining number of us went to Supocha.

I'd like to say it ended there but as it turned out one of our friends who was going back to Kyoto had missed the last train and needed somewhere to stay, and since they don't let people in to the dorms we had to go to my apartment. But time wasn't in our favour and we found ourselves rushing with bags and blankets etc to the last train and barely made it.

And when we finally got to the apartment there was the dilemma of having 2 people sleep on the floor on the same futon and only 1 pillow. And then me sleeping in the bed with no pillow. The friggin AC wasn't working either because I haven't had the gas company come over yet.

It was a sorta cold night and I didn't sleep that well, but I suppose it was an experience.

Pic of my "little" bed =)

All in all it was a good day and I wish all of my friends from E-Class and all the other classes all the best forever =D See you again soon!!

Getting ready to end it all

Can't believe it when I hear it but there are only around 5 days left until we have our graduation ceremony. After that we are no longer students at a Japanese Language School, but instead to be students of trade schools, universities etc.

We who are here on the monbusho scholarship had to take the "graduation test" which was said to be about JLPT N2-N1 level. Before we'd even had the first test the teachers told us about the "re-test" (what is the word for it in Eng?), and there wasn't just one but 2 of them. If you fail one time you do it a second time, and if you fail a second time you do it a third time!
But luckily I passed on the first try so now I can spend the rest of my days chillaxing!

...Well, almost! I still have my apartment and my next school to think about.
Yesterday I went to Jome Center Konan (which is the cheapest store to get pretty much anything for your apartment, etc) and got - a bed, gas stove, clothes rack, table, lamps, futon etc etc for a total of 50.000 yen which I considered being quite a lot but apparently it isn't all too bad.
I'm not done shopping tho, after this I gotta buy a desk and a chair which I will get from amazon.

Also wondering if I should get a vacuum cleaner because one of the rooms in my new apartment has tatami floor and when I got the apartment I asked the real estate agent if tatami is easy to clean and they were like "Yea ofc! Just clean it like you clean normal floors!", but even though I haven't even moved in yet I know that isn't true! I have already read so many horror stories about molding tatami online now that I am wondering if I will ever make it.
To keep it extra clean I'd need a vacuum cleaner and then do the extra tatami care stuff.

Then after the big shopping I will just need the little things one need for a new apartment. Then start to put all my furniture together and call the internet, gas and electric companies before I move in.

Also, the next school thing. I need to send all these letters to all these different places and also pay around 37.000 for my first years supply of books, etc for learning.

So life isn't very calm yet I guess, right now there is a lot I need to keep track of and it's all new to me so I gotta work it!