Tonight out on the streets I'm gonna follow you.

What an amazing week. I've been awake in bed for at least two hours just thinking about it.

Sunday I met Segawa-san who studied Danish a Osaka University, and is the sempai of many of my friends there. He's doing a project called Smile-Isles.

Monday I went out for Indian food with the other interns, except Amal since she'd caught a cold. It seems all of us is going through the same stuff.

Wednesday was my dear friend Gen's birthday party, so I headed for Yokohama. At Yokohama Station I met up with Maa-chan, another Yokohama friend. It was the first time we've been able to meet since I came to Japan, and there was much rejoicing!

 Gen, turning 31 received roses and 31 balls of Baskin Robbins ice-cream (here in Japan also known as "31 Ice-cream").

Thursday I went to 霞ヶ関 with Torsten for a briefing on foreign language education, internationalization of universities, and cultural policies at MEXT. Potentially extremely interesting, but alas with Japanese presenting skills... turned out to be very boring. Torsten looked his best though!

After the briefing I met up with Erika, my friend from Osaka, who was in Tokyo for 就職活動, a complicated and to me very strange concept. I don't know which part I find most incomprehensible. Maybe the fixed application period. Or the waste of university time on applying. Or the fact that you apply to enter a company, not for a specific job. What do you do if you're fired? Do you have to wait til next April? Sigh Japan, why do you love bureaucracy so bad?

BUT! I got to see Erika !!! So I guess it's not all bad.

We randomly found a organic restaurant/wine bar close to Shinjuku station called Forst.

It was really good! The vegetables was amazing and the red wine (I didn't get the name, but it was from Chile) was delicious. I come from a wine-loving family, and this was the first glass I've had in Tokyo. I might take my parents here, when they come to visit me!

I also took Purikura:

I took a lot of pictures of stuffed animals at the Game Center. Here's some:

 I love San-x's Rirakkuma!!

 Beats Hello Kitty a million times.

This Mickey Mouse was very nice. I don't really like Disney, but these are cool.

Since it was Hinamatsuri we also went for some cake:

I had a very Japanese cake with green tea and normal tea cream, sweet black beans and sweet potato. It was amazing!

Erika had one with white chocolate and strawberry. I wish I could make cakes like these. People are always happy when they have cake, so it must be a very nice job!

When I got home I had even more cake: a carrot cake from Nikolai Bergman: Nomu, Kaori's new job. She also gave me smørrebrød and bagels to bring to work. The interns were so happy! Danes are just suckers for rugbrød, and now that I know I can get it here, I'm not sure I'm ever going home.

♥THANK YOU KAORI♥