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Slight exaggeration, I admit. For one, it's not brand new; I wrote it in when I was in Japan (big surprise) way back in 2008 when I was still in primary school(!) Secondly, it was posted on Facebook at the time so it's not entirely exclusive - but it's never been published on here before! And I thought to myself: (Almost) nobody is travelling these days. My friends are asking me if I'm not going crazy not being able to travel, and some have even told me they miss reading about my travels. (That definitely makes me all warm and happy and fuzzy on the inside!)
I could write an entire essay analyzing my feelings about being stuck in the middle of the ocean for a whole year but that's probably not very fun. So instead, since Facebook so kindly reminded me that it's been 13 years since my dad and I went to Japan together, I thought I would revisit Japan - and take you with me!
So what to expect?
I will be posting my old blog entries from Japan, and will try to do so with the same intervals as I did in originally. So if I didn't blog for two days, the next post won't be up until two days later.
Secondly, I'll have you know that those entries needed some editing. For one, my language skills weren't exactly formidable back then (what can you expect of a 15-year old?). Secondly, I got rid of some name of friends that I was directly addressing in my posts (because it seems I was mostly writing 'to' or at least for them). Thirdly though, and perhaps the biggest reason for needing to edit it, was that almost every sentence, contained at least one emoticon, or rather the shortcut for an emoticon since the emoticons didn't really exist/work in Facebook notes back then. I also deleted a lot of triple dots, and edited the headings of the posts since they were just named after the city I was in every time.
Except for that, I tried to keep the spirit and (bad sense of) humour of the 15-year old I was intact. And if you find my normal entries too long to read, then maybe you will enjoy these more, as they're a lot less detailed and shorter (though I seem to have thought they were long (and boring) already back then).
Thirdly, I can't resist giving a brief (or probably not so brief, knowing myself...) commentary before and/or maybe also after each entry for several reasons that will probably become clear as you read them.
Lastly, I have gone through my photos and have added a few more because my original posts almost didn't contain any (and most of the entries ended with me writing that I would upload pictures 'soon'). So yes, feel free to laugh at my teenage looks - it's there for your entertainment more than for mine.
Below is my first post about our transit through Copenhagen airport. It's a good taster for the silliness that is to follow in the coming entries. I you enjoy the insight into teenage me.
My preface is getting longer than the post itself but very lastly, I bring you the itinerary so you know what is to come:
Day 0: Copenhagen (transit)
Day 1-3: Kyoto
Day 4-6: Osaka
Day 7-19: Kyoto
Day 10-15: Tokyo
Day 16: Copenhagen (transit)
Now, here goes:
11 March 2008
So... This is my first blog post, and I haven't even got to Japan yet! I'm waiting at Copenhagen Airport for the SAS flight to, well it has probably arrived by now, so I guess I'm waiting to board. It isn't leaving before 3 o'clock anyway...
We're travelling with SAS (as you may have figured out...) and because dad has some kind of GOLD card, we can wait in the SAS lounge...with internet connection! I was supposed to go downstairs to get some kind of username and password if I wanted internet access but we're sharing like a sofa with two Japanese or wherever they're from (who are actually leaving now...) and dad saw what they had written on a piece of paper... So there's always easier (read: lazier) ways to get to the internet.
Had a bit of a mishap earlier today. We were actually lucky with the first leg of the trip; no delays (10 minutes don't count). But when we got here, dad was so hungry that we had to get something immediately. We found a pasta place and I ordered a spaghetti bolognese. When the little weird thing started to beep and blink, indicating that our food was ready, I went to grab both my pasta and dad's vegetarian dish and I don't know whose idea it was to put the receipt on the plate (dad's plate)!!! I didn't realize that the plates were so heavy, so I had to hurry back to our table if I didn't want the plates to just slip out of my hands. Because I hurried so much, the receipt blew from dad's plate onto my one (yum, pasta with receipt......) and then right onto my WHITE west... So yeah, now I'm stuck with these orange spots on my white west for the rest of the trip to Japan!
God...I feel sorry for those who read my boring blog, but I'm not forcing anyone! But for those who are bored, I recommend you stop reading because I'm not done...
So, by the time I'd eaten all my pasta, I was so hot, I had to take my west off and my jumper...and underneath it I was wearing a white t-shirt, and I don't know where it came from but it was as if I had a brown chocolate spot on it! Fair enough, it wasn't all that big but it was easy to see on the white fabric. I never found out what the brown thing was but I washed it away. It's a bit harder to wash the marinara sauce off though...
Anyway, now I've written way too much about nothing. But I trust that certain friends at home will read to the end anyway. After all, I mostly write for specific individuals who, I think, will enjoy my stories.
Bye for now.