Life signs from Corny

Firstly: MY COMPUTER IS ALIIVEEEEE ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┏(*´∀｀)┛


So I can post my photos from my camera, blog more quickly (maybe xD) and, more importantly, live my life free from mourning my computer's apparent death!! (人●´ω｀●)
So!!  I've got some nice pics from my school, finally!! :D +other interesting stuffies ^w^
But firstly secondly thirdly (???), a quick report of my recent life!

• Right now I'm kind of exstatic, probably because I've eaten too much delicious junk food (sweet cereal, heaps of ramen, cake, more cake, marshmallows... xDD)

• and because I just went to see The Amazing Spiderman 2 (it was actually a GREAT movie (note: I'm under strong influence from nostalgia and too much cake))..with my deep and funny and terrifically-English-speaking friend Rodrigo from Uruguay! ＼（＾∀＾）人（＾∀＾）ノ

• Aside from that, lately school is super busy, and may get even busier if I join the Kendo club (under consideration due to frequent non-skippable morning practice) - but right now we have a 5-day holiday (so wonderfully looong x''DD) so I've got time to blog!! :D:D

• School is: LONG but fun :D

• School friends are: Many nice pals, few very near friends

• Mood is: (recently realized) swinging heavily xD 

• Japanese goes: Improving slightly every day. I speak and comprehend more quickly. Kanji study is delayed. 

So!! School photos~~ 

(note, being an awkvard, foreign rookie at my school, the mere thought of walking about with a recording device in plain sight gives me chills SO you may enjoy a, uhm, less crowded perspective of the school xD (that is, after-school-perspective))

This is (the last 5 min of) my way to school:

(from left: mysterious woman planting flowers, two girls from my school and, as usual, a person on a bike)

This is the fence that surrounds my school campus:

Sometimes one can hear the university dudes playing tennis on the other side of the fence, other days one can hear the Kendo practice! You can hear them screaming two minutes away!! xD They're so passionate (=´▽｀)ゞ 

The sakura season ended a week or two ago, so there's fallen sakura everywhere~

Like my host father commented, the sakura are beautiful even when fallen... He claimed that it's an ideal that Japanese people strive for, to rather let life go gracefully (like sakura) than to hold on to thight until you're old and withered (like most other flowers).

I always enter through the north gate (a.k.a. the back door), not too interesting, but further inside the campus is the more intimidating Junior&Senior High School (NO: ungdomsskolen & VGS) complex entrance:

In the afternoon sunshine ヾ(*・ω・)ノ゜+.゜★ィェィ☆゜+.゜ヾ(・ω・*)ノ

You can slightly see the school badge in the upper middle of the... Thing xD It's the round leaf with the star in the middle. I'm currently searching for the meaning hahah xD

The stairs to my classroom(s):

Yup.

By every flight of stairs there is a mirror (probably so that the students are at all times able to assure that their skirt is at an appropriate length and their socks at an appropriate height). I tested the mirror:

*approved for dorky selfies*

One of the hundreds of identical hallways: 

On the left is my classroom, and on the wall on the right you can see one of the numerous unintelligible map/signboard/room-list -things xD

My locker with kittie~~

My classroom:

This is after school, so most people are at club activity somwehere on campus and the rest at home. I've got the window seat on the front row. Good for communicating with teachers. Bad for learning the morning prayer routines (I have this perception that turning around during meditation is bad manners, so...)

My view from my desk:

The gym, and behind it, the track. 

The senior high school toilets:

Cozy, huh... I'm never going to complain about the infamous, scruffy and constantly occupied Færder girl's toilet (I MISS THAT LOO SO BAD). Allthough on the other hand, this squatting toilet is very effective. It's very difficoult to doze off on this toilet seat, or do your makeup, etc. It doesn't contribute to making you late for class.

***bonus snaps***

From art club, attempting oil painting (and failing so far hahah)

That unventilated room is so freaking humid omg xD The thought makes me sweat... But the sweet breeze of art keepes us alive hahah~

My favourite part of school, the jidouhanbaki, vending machines <3

You can buy the amazing Japanese Milk Tea, the tastiest drink currently in existence on this planet, and moreover, COFFEE. The coffee is reaaally sweet, almost as sweet as the milk tea =U=

The day I took these photos, the weather was very nice and I was feeling good, so I decided to walk a few of the bus stops. On this little afternoon sanpo, I was distracted by some large trees peeping up above the roofs a couple of blocks off the main road. Upon closer examination I found a splendid little takebayashi (竹林), tiny bamboo wood:

And a solitary samurai xD

Hahah, this was indeed an interesting encounter. This old man was performing kung-fu on invisible enemies all alone in the little bamboo cluster with his wooden katana. I asked for a photo (just because), and he introduced himself as Tommy, a (possibly self-acclaimed) martial arts sensei. He actually taught me some fancy methods to avoid being hit in combat, should I ever come across a ill-tempered samurai.  Also, he knew a lot about vikings, I think (he started talking about that when I said that I'm from Norway. We had an interesting talk comparing samurai and vikings). I'm not quite sure wether he was very wise or very, uh, mental, but I'm really glad to have met him. Made my day. xD

To conclude this flooded blog post, I'd like to add some snippets from my mail correspondence, about my timetable and Kendo~~ 

It's in Norwegian though, sorry to all o' you fancy foreigners :''3 (tho you ain't missin' no uplifiting stuff anyways! xD)

Min dagsplan!~

(Hvis jeg joiner kendo: Står opp ~04:50 noen dager)

05:30 - står opp, uniform, hår, frokost, blablabla 

07:05 - tar toget (+buss) til skolen

08:05 - ankommer skolen (hvor vi hverken har nett eller mob btw)

15:15 - skolen ferdig 

(Man-Tor + lør:) 15:45 - after-school club (friidrett/kunst (kan hende jeg begynner med Kendo isteden for friidrett))

~19:00 - kommer hjem

Gjør lekser

22:15 - sjekker AFS-sidene på Facebook (holder meg oppdatert på events o.l.)

22:30 - Sove

...Pluss tørking av tallerkner, dusjing, etc... Min unnskyldning for lack of communication, sry x''3

Og for dere som ikke vet hva kendo er! Dette er mitt intrykk so far!! xDD

- Det er Japansk fekting:

Meget fancy =U= (bilder fra Google images, men det kunne like godt vært vår klubb for rustningen er alltid prikk lik)

- De SKRIKER OG ROPER HELE TIDEN

- DET ER SOM OM NOEN HAR SKRUDD PÅ CAPS-LOCK NÅR DE SNAKKER

- F.eks. Så har skolen en universal oppvarming, sånn light sirkeltrening/sirkeltøying type ting, der de teller til 8 for hver øvelse: ich-ni-san-shi go-rokk-shich-hach, men i Kendo-klubben sier de EEIIIIIIIICH NIIIIIIIIEEE SAAAAAAN SHIIIIIIIIEEE GOOOOOO ROOOOOOOCK SHIIIIIIIIIIICHI HAAAAAAAACHI xDDD DE SKRIKER DET SÅ HØYT OMFG xD

- Og hver gang man utfører et slag må man skrike høyt hva man gjør, eller bare skrike høyt. F.eks. HYAAAAAA MEEEEEEEN som man skriker når man slår noen på hodet.  Den lærte jeg da jeg var med på prøvetrening ^u^ 

Ja, og alle Japanere påstår at det er helt utrolig slitsomt og fysisk krevende :D:D:D Jeg som er så liten og lavmælt og forsiktig og helt uten koordinasjon har helt skrekkelig lyst til å ta på meg denne utfordringen ;u; Men de har morgentreninggggg x''D 

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And that concludes it!! Hope you enjoyed my post!! :D:D

To all my fellow AFSers who may be reading this: I HOPE YOU'RE DOING GREAT, MY AFS BROTHERS AND -SISTERS :D:D

To all my people in Norway: JEG SAVNER DERE ALLE SAMMEN DERE ER VERDT SÅ MYE FOR MEG unnskyld hvis jeg virker teit hahahhh MEN JEG TENKER PÅ DERE HVER DAG, ALLE DE FANTASISKE UNIKE VENNENE MINE OG FAMILIEN MIN <3<3<3

And whoever the rest of you might be: THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK WITH LIFE

You shall hear from me again...