dancing

No class today as it is a National Holiday. Thanks for that, we appreciate it. Two of my friends wanted to check out the Dance Society so we went four of us, two dancing, two (including me) sitting on the side like creepy trolls taking pictures and videos. It was in Hiyoshi and we first went into a huge room, like a classroom with loads of benches and packed with people and their stuff. Proper dirty, like a hang-out place for dancers. Imagine Fame all over again! People were dancing to their own music through earphones, and there were stereos placed here and there bashing out loud music. Awesome place and everyone was so street! Amazing. The class looked like fun and they'll be performing at the Mita Festival in November which apparently is a big deal here. Proper hip hop dancing as well - love it!

The Philosopher's Stone

Afterwards we went to a second hand bookstore and look here what I found! Harry Potter in Japanese!

Fun fact #1: in translation, the text becomes twice as long so each book is published in two books. 14 books in total, in other words!

Fun fact #2: In Japanese, the pronunciation of the name 'Harry Potter' sounds a lot like 'hairy potato''.

Fun fact #3: Japanese books are read right to left, vertically, and backwards. So where we end a book, they start. Still getting used to it - it looks so strange!

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R: Chamber of Secrets. L: Prisoner of Azkaban.

Found this in a boutique. Very, very odd!

Finally found some food! We went out for dinner and in a little cosy Japanese place I dined on the following: special tofu (a little sweet and very fried), udan noodles, green onion, and veggie tempura. Blinged up with soy and some spicy spice. Very tasty and it cost 510 yen, or £5 (50 SEK). Not too bad I don't think!

Tomorrow is the big day - football game with Shimizu S Pulse and Fredrik Ljungberg! There will be photos, rest assure. Sunday promises IKEA and somewhere in between these fun things I should probably study some Japanese + figure out where the bloody post office is!

Jo x