Hey f-list!! (^-^)/

As you can guess I'm back from my vacation. Actually I came back on Sunday night, but didn't have time to check lj at all! I'm sorry. I'll try to catch up with my f-list and various comments later (hopefully T__T) .....

Anyway, it was GREAT!!!
Thank you for all the nice comments to my last entry, they made me really happy :)

It was a short vacation, it was stressful for my body (in the end everything hurt - that's what you get for travelling to so many places in such a short time) and it was expensive, but WOW it was soooooo worth it!!
People who know me might already have guessed that I also took tons of photos (~ 2500-ish to be precise *coughs* ... in only ONE week!! o___o; .......). I'll gradually post the best of them, so I hope you're looking forward to that :)

Right now I only want to give you a brief overview of the places I went to, what I did, what I saw, my impressions etc.
Single entries to each city (or even every single day XD) follow when I have time to do so (T___T) .... GAH!!

Okay, let's start :)

First stop: Nagasaki (2 nights, 2 days):
I've never been in Nagasaki before (that goes for the other cities I've visited this time, too, by the way). I always wanted to go there. First thing I did was visiting the atomic bomb museum, memorial hall, peace park.
It was very interesting! Unfortunately not ALL the information was in English and maybe that's why I got the feeling that the Japanese see themselves too much as victims? I mean it's not like they were completely innocent, although throwing the atomic bomb at that time wasn't necessary anymore blah blah ... anyway it was INTERESTING!
I didn't know that the city I'm living in right now was one of the last few possible targets (it was among the last 11 cities they had chosen! Scary!!!)
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One of the various peace symbols/statues.

I COMPLETELY fell in love with Nagasaki! It's such a GREAT city! So beautiful and with a lot of charm - if you can say so. A lot of interesting buildings, nature, the ocean etc. You ABSOLUTELY can't tell that there was this disaster only a few years ago! Really, no way!!!! Amazing city. I also stand exactly where ground zero was, kind of ..... strange.

( More about Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Aso, Kagoshima, Sakurajima under the cut. )



On the ferry from Sakurajima back to Kagoshima.

Anyway, that was basically it :D
Since Monday I was busy with unpacking, paying bills, doing things that have gathererd up during the week I wasn't here and ... yeah.

Today is my day off, so I finally have some time to write these lines.


Okay,
gotta answer some e-mails, comments etc. now and then back to my Japanese studies!


More (hopefully soon)!


Bye-cha~

Anyone have pictures of  SNSD like this...the single one...i only have Taeyeon and Jessica...very hard to find it...Thanks in advance!!!!

Sasori and Deidara at a rave and punked out. Not the best thing I've ever done, but it was fun. lol It's under the cut but you can also view it on Deviant Art at the following link: HERE

( Rave Masters )

Thanks for looking~ <3

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she was the one to hold me the night the sky fell down