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So, I'm home!
The last day was actually on Wednesday. We went to some design shops that dad wanted to have a look at. He bought like three different curtains, a designed top/blouse for mum and placemats. I was lucky and found a really cool moving card! It has a picture of a horse on the front, and when you open the card, it looks like the horse is running. (And if you close the card, it runs backwards!)
I don't really remember everything we did, not in the right order. I remember that we found another Vietnamese place where we had noodle soup for lunch. Dad was (and is still) very happy about having seen Issey Miyaki or whatever his name is. We're not even 100% sure that it was him, could have been his assistant, but he claims or would like to think that it was him. He's a very famous clothing designer and... Well, they were setting up some exhibition and then dad saw a man in that exhibition hall and...now all he talks about is "I saw Issey Miyaki".
We walked to Harajuku, another shopping district near the park I told you about. There, dad bought me a jacket that I had seen in G-star Raw with my friend when I was in Denmark. So nice! We also went to a shopping mall with lots of clothes. They had "normal" clothes too BUT on the ground floor, they had only Japanese shops like REALLY Japanese. You must have seen or at least heard about some Japanese teenagers that wear really weird clothes. Either they're really emo, with skulls, wearing all black and ripped clothes you know, or they wear really childish clothes; dresses that are really big with cookies on them or something silly like that. That's the type of weird clothes that entire floor was filled with! I think some of the emo clothes were nice and I was thinking about buying maybe one piece of clothing just to be a little Japanese, but when as I got closer and saw the them up close, I backed off again.
We finished the day by buying the camera that I had promised my friend back home, and then went back to the hotel to pack.
Then we had to wake up early(-ier than usual) the next day to take the so-called 'Friendly Airport Limousine' (which is actually just a bus) to Narita Airport. I had to go to the restroom, and I noticed an even cooler...you know all the flush and rinse buttons by the toilet I told you about. There was a button that said had a 1/8 musical note on it. On the wall, there was an explanation for all the buttons, and the purpose of that music button was apparently to make a flushing noise when and so that other people can't hear what you're doing. So brilliant!
While at the airport, we still had around 5000 yen that we had to get rid off, so we like shopped everything interesting that we could find.
The plane to Copenhagen went really well. Once again we got upgraded to Economy Extra. The bad news were just that the entertainment system had broken down so I couldn't watch any movie or play any games on the way back which sucked a lot. So instead, I geared into getting back to school and studied a bit for a biology test I have on Monday...
We got to Copenhagen pretty much right on time, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon I think. Our plane home wasn't leaving until 10.10 PM so dad tried to get us on an earlier plane which (luckily for me) didn't work. I had long planned to meet up some friends in Copenhagen during our transit.
So yeah, I went into the city and met up with my friend. Got her her souvenir. Dad found a hotel where he could sleep... Then I took the underground to another friend of mine, with whom I had dinner and we talked and whatever. On the way back to the airport, it had got dark and freezing. Copenhagen is big compared to at home but even then, it felt like there was NOBODY on the platform compared to Tokyo! Actually, we weren't really in the center of Copenhagen but still! I think there were two other people waiting on the platform (without counting my friend). I felt like the city was deserted!
I was quite lucky not to be tired when meeting with my friends since, I mean, it was technically in the middle of the night in my head. But as soon as I got on the plane, I totally dozed off.
It was really nice to be home, hug mum - and sleep in my sleepy shoes! Mum has apparently been a bit bored while we were away and changed everything in my room, but it's cool.
Then I skipped school (mum e-mailed them) this morning. I could actually have gone to the first two lessons because I woke up 7.30 AM, not being tired at all. But I didn't because I didn't want to wake mum and dad, plus I don't want to risk getting sick this soon to the final exams. Mum and dad woke up about 7.45 and we unpacked and showed mum all the new stuff we had bought. It 'only' took an hour and a half... At 10, I fell asleep again. Now I'm awake and have to put everything in my closet and tidy up a bit.
So...that was the end of my Japan-blogg...
Hope you enjoyed my long and boring posts (then why are you reading?)
Iris
Epilogue: So this was my last post. I had started writing an epilogue about using some of the clothes I bought in Japan during a photoshoot for a newspaper fashion article, and that I did end up trying the Japanese toilet flushing options, and was thinking about what else I could add. So I let it linger for a while, and then apparently it all got erased. So I better just post it now.
Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed reading, and that I could at least give you some relief from the reality that nowadays is called pandemic. Until next time, take care.