『travel』2014/07/25 - 2014/07/27 TOKYO ~ Japan part I

2014/07/25

Everything was quite normal on the flight to London. I did nothing special except sleeping, because as always I slept like zero hours before leaving home. I had to get up at 04:30am to throw the last things into my luggage and to drive to the airport. Boarding started at 06.30am and we finally took of at 06:55am.

I arrived an hour later in London and had a nerve wrecking journey through the security check to get to the waiting area, where I spend the next four hours. Which is quite boring when you're alone, hungry and tired. I decided to get some food and to find a place to sit down. Which I luckily found. While I ate and discovered the free wi-fi (which lasted only 45mins) I got even more tired and decided to check out the rest of the terminal and to find my gate for the check in.

Found it and still had to wait a small eternity. I fought to not fall asleep, which was really hard. But in the end I managed to stay awake. Couldn't leave my carry on luggage unwatched. Who knows what would have happened to Mrs. Paperwhite and Booky. XD"

At 12:00pm my gate was finally announced and I traveled there. Took me around 20mins to get there. The airport is just too huge. Another 35mins later boarding started and we finally took off around 02:10pm.

Goodbye London

first food on board

I tell you to always go with the vegan option if your a super picky person when it comes to food.
I'm only a vegetarian but on flights I always go with the vegan option. It the best, I swear! ^^

second food on board

dessert XD

2014/07/26

preparing for landing

That's how far Narita Airport is from Tokyo

Welcome to Narita Airport

Arriving at the airport wasn't that exciting, except it got super humid immediately. I was wrapt in a lot of clothes and my super comfy and warm DIR EN GREY sweater. I nearly died when I left the plane. XD Carrying all my belongings with me I had to go to the immigration first. Luckily Lulu told me everything beforehand and I had everything prepared. It took nearly an hour to immigrate.

While waiting I unsuccessfully tried to get my phone connected. I was so annoyed and nearly panicking. Because Lulu planed to pick me up in Kichijōji and not from the airport I needed to message her when I take the bus.
Immigration went well and I immediately found my luggage. Packed with everything I had to pass one last stop to finally leave the airport.

Luckily I was able to find the right bus stop immediately and the next bus left around 10mins later. I got my ticket and had to wait a bit more. Still trying to connect my phone. The nice guy at the bus station tried to tell me I had to wait a bit more for the bus and even told me when it finally was there. He put my luggage in the storage room and I could board the bus.

Still trying to get any phone service...
I even tried to connect with the free wifi from the airport. Nothing worked.
Suddenly I got a mini connection and send the already prepared message with my scheduled arrival time. I also got a message to my mum, so she wont worry.
After that mini connection for nearly a minute I never got any service again. That was really annoying.

One and a half hour later I was in Kichijōji. No Lulu. I was kind of confused and nearly panicking again, because my phone wasn't working. But a minute later she arrived an told me happily that she was shopping, because the bus wasn't on time.

Finally in her room at the dormitory I took a shower and changed into some lighter clothes. Lulu organized a second bike and we went grocery shopping. That bike nearly killed me and I just couldn't adapt to the driving on the left side. That was so confusing (Reminded my of Australia and how we nearly ran into the taxi, because we look in the wrong direction and were thinking it was right.).

Grocery shopping was fun. Soy milk everywhere and a lot of different things to see. But we had to hurry, because we planed to go the fireworks with a few other students.

Back again we ate dinner and waited for the rest to get dressed. Most of them wanted to wear their new yukatas.

After two hours of fireworks it ended and we made our way back to the station. Which wasn't easy at all, because it was so crowded. In the end we had to discover, that the nearest station got closed, because it was too crowded. We had to walk the most of the way back home.
They even closed all the streets, so everyone could walk without getting overrun by a car. We mostly walked on the street. I was nearly dying. Everything hurt and I was endlessly tired.
We made it to another station where we were able to get on a train.

When we arrived at our station, we had to take a last picture for the day.

While Lulu tried to make plans with me for our trip to Akita I fell asleep. z__z



2014/07/27

Next day wasn't anything special, except that we discovered we had to leave for Akita in the evening. XD We thought we had one whole day in Tokyo to spend before leaving. ^^"""

We just went a bit shopping in Shibuya and Lulu showed me around.


 In Shibuya 109 we met the Sailor Scouts. ^^

Had to take pictures of them and with Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars. ^^ 

『2014|07|25|-|2014|08|15』Goodbye Berlin!

Well when you're reading this I'll be long gone. I'll be in the plane from London to Tokyo if everything goes fine.

While I'm super excited for all of this. I'm also really scared and kinda panicking. I hate packing up my stuff and I always have the feeling I left something important even when I have everything with me.

Plus I had to fill out some letters of authorization for the case of universities want to accept me and set me a date to do the enrollment. Since I don't know how long the deadline will be I gave my parents the authorization to do the enrollment process for me.
It was a lot of paperwork. So annoying. >_>

I'll hope I'll finish packing my purse for the flight in some minutes and that it'll go fast with the data transfer, because I'm transferring a few DVDs on to my MacBook to watch them on the flight. ^^"

My first flight, from Berlin to London, will start at 7:00am and I'll be there around 8:00am if everything goes like scheduled. I have four and a half hours to spend there. So I hope that it's enough time to get to the right gate without any problems.

My next flight, from London to Tokyo, will be at 1:30pm and I'll hopefully arrive on the 26th August around 9:10am in Tokyo.

I really hope I can handle this all alone. XD I'm scared. It's such a different country and I have to find the bus all alone which will bring me to Kichijouji were Lulu will pick me up. This bus drive should be something around two hours. I really hope that I will get this right. But Lulu already told me that the people there are good at english and that they will know where I want to go. And since Kichijouji is the last stop I shouldn't be able to miss it.

The funny thing is that I'll be only two days in Tokyo and we already leave for Akita to stay there three days. After we're back we actually have only one day in Tokyo again and than leave for another four or five days to Fuji. I'm already sooo excited! ^^

After we're back again we will stay in Tokyo and I don't really know what she planed for me. I only know that we're going to see fireworks in the evening when I arrive there.

So let's hope it'll be an awesome three weeks trip full of sightseeing traveling and shopping. XD


With this I say goodbye to all of you for the upcoming three weeks. I have three more post scheduled, but nothing really special. Stay tuned and check it out if you like. ^^
I'll be writing about my Japan trip as soon as I make it home safely and find the time to write everything down. I'll try and pre-write everything and to actually sort my pics right from the beginning. Let's hope I'll can do this as I plan on doing it.

Stay safe and healthy and see you in three weeks! ^o^