Idag

Idag var det Kamen Rider Ozu-wiener i spagettien min.

I LOVE JAPAN

パフューム

Before Golden Week I wrote about my plans for the Perfume-concert, and thought I should just update you on that.

I went with three girls from my class, from the left: Mizue, Hiromi and Yumiko. They came to the stage 8 o'clock in the morning to get a place in front, and they saved one for me as the earliest I could get there was 12 o'clock. 

We sat this close to the stage! The people who were closest to the stage were big fans and came there 8 o'clock the day before, thus waiting two days for a concert only lasting for 45 minutes. 

This was also the first day of one of Japan's most popular festivals, Hiroshima's Flower Festival. There was a big parade going on at the same time, and it took me about an hour just to get to a convenient store and back, which would under normal circumstances just take about 5 minutes. 

4 o'clock Perfume came on stage, and they were SO CUTE! The definition of cuteness! They danced and "sang" (playback, but you would understand it if you look at their intense dancing and listen to their songs) and put on a great show, and it was so much fun! We were sitting in the front of the stage and it came about 50.000 people, so we had to sit down during the entire concert so the people in the back could see as well. Felt kind of strange not standing during a concert with artists that you really like though. 

After the concert we took Purikura! I love these girls!!

For those of you who are interested, Perfume just released a new single called reizaabiimu (laser beam):

Peace out~

花見と夜桜

Den fineste tiden å besøke Japan på er starten av April, for da blomstrer de japanske kirsebærtrærne. Hele Japan blir rosa, og mye varmere i tillegg. Rundt den tiden pleier japanere å enten dra på hanami eller yozakura, som er det en kan kalle en piknik under kirsebærtrærne. Her kommer noen bilder fra da jeg dro på hanami etter vertslillebrors første skoledag.

 En ting som er veldig fint med ikke å bo i storby er at en kan finne nydelig landskap 10 minutter unna huset. 

vertsmor, -lillebror, -bestemor

broen Iwakuni er berømt for; Kintaikyou

 ******

En uke etter dro jeg på yozakura med vennina mi Asayo på samme stedet der vi hadde hanami.

Blomstene hadde minsket, men det var fremdeles telt som solgte mat og folk som satt i grupper og spiste og drakk.

<3

Nå, i Mai, har alle blomstene blitt erstattet av blader, og det er kirsebær som er på de fleste trærne, sakuranbo på japansk. 

Translation: The best time to visit Japan is in the start of April. It is not too cold or too warm, and the cherry blossom trees are at their best.  I went on hanami ( flower viewing and picnic ) with my host family on my host brother's first school day, and a week after I went on yozakura ( flower viewing at night ) with my beautiful friend Asayo. Now all the pink blossoms have been replaced my red cherries, which are really tasty! 

GOLDEN WEEK

It is Golden Week in Japan now, banzai~!

A week of vacation where I among other things will go to a concert with this electropop girl band:

This group, Perfume (pronounced Pafyūmu), is supercute and I love their music. Did I mention it was free? 

By the way:

I do not know what to blog about
so if there is anything people would like to read  about

or any questions considering anything
please let me know <3 !

山下智久福岡ソロコンサート『ASIA TOUR 2011 Super good Super bad』2011年4月10日

Warning: Will contain a lot of fangirling

10th of April 2011 I went to Fukuoka to go to the concert I never thought I would be able to go to, Yamashita Tomohisa's solo concert. I had been looking forward to this day since the day I heard that I might get a ticket, even the fact that I got a ticket was unbelieveable. Yamashita Tomohisa is a member of the very popular entertainment group in Japan, "Johnny's". He is an artist, whereas he sings in a band, but also plays in movies and tv-dramas. "Johnny's", the entertainment group is very big in Japan, and the most popular band right now is Arashi. If you are not a member of their fanclub it is almost impossible to get a ticket to their show, and they have become so popular that they only do concerts in Tokyo and Osaka. 

Luckily for me my favorite artist of all Johnny's decide to have a solo tour the year I come to Japan, and I am able to get a ticket for it as well!! Lucky!!!

On to the summary of what was one of the best days I have spent in Japan:

Since I did not bring my camera to the concert I thought I would not have any pictures to put up here on the blog, but I did bring my cellphone. I am sorry for the quality, but it is better than nothing, right? 

So on the 10th of April I woke up early, dressed up, and left the house while my host family were just waking up. I took a small local train two stops to a place where I could change for the bullet train, shinkansen, and started my trip to Fukuoka. 

I chose to go by Shinkansen so that I could go and come back on the same day. As an exchange student I do not have the freedom to stay overnight everywhere I want to. Also because I am still considered a child in Japan. 

This is where I live and where the concert was.

alone on the shinkansen I almost missed the place where I changed trains, scary.

I was a bit nervous since I was going by myself and I did not want to be late (I planned so I would be there about two hours before the doors even opened though), but I arrived at Fukuoka at the right time and in good shape. It was my first time in Fukuoka, and I can say that it is a pretty town. 

I went on a bus to Marinmesse, where the concert found place and realised that being two hours early is almost like being late for these concert people. There were already a lot of people standing in line for buying goods or just standing around waiting. There were even two girls sitting in a staircase curling their hair with a curling iron and fixing their homemade fan-shirts, that is true fangirls right there!

I stood in line for 30 minutes to 45 minutes to buy goods, and if you can see (again, sorry for the quality) on the picture above there were a lot of people.

After a while I randomly met some friends who were going to the concert as well, and I went in together with them. Before getting inside there was a baggage check and also a uchiwa check, because you can not bring items that are too big because they can block other peoples sight. Johnny's concerts have some quite strict rules, where for example if you are too noisy or if you move too much they will throw you out. 

Getting inside I got to see where my seat was.

LUCKY!!! 

The seat's are chosen at random, so I was really happy to figure out I was this close to the stage. 

What was even better...

On my row I was the closest to the fence! Closest to the main runway-thing where all the artists walk. I felt so extremely lucky that I could not do anything but to smile and giggle and not wait for the concert to start.

...

And then it started, and I do not know how to explain this and at the same time come out as a sane person. 

But it was fantastic!! I got to see Yamapi in real life, and the concert was really good. 

There were 8,500 people there, 99% girls, therefore very noisy. 

As you can see in this clip, very noisy. I have gone to an only girls school for 8 months now though, so I have really gotten used to this kind of noise, and I think I was very noisy myself standing there. 

And... I can not really fint a way to express how much fun it was. Yamapi was great, insanely handsome(ikemen!!), all my favourite songs got played and there was a great show as well. In Johnny's concerts they have a part called MC where everyone in the audience has to sit down, and the artist talk for about 45 minutes. I could understand all the japanese, and it was really much fun. I got to understand Yamapi's sense of humor even better, and he is super funny! 

BEST PART:

After the MC-part, he jumped up on some kind of rolling carriage (I guess you can call it,) and circled around the audience singing. He came over to where I stood, and started touching some of the hands who were desperately reaching out to him. And when he came over to where I stood, I got to shake hands with him!!! When he came back again, I got one more handshake, and I even met his eyes and smiled. 

UNBELIEVEABLE

and I was so happy I almost felt like crying~ yes, true happiness.

Now at this point some people might be reading this thinking I am nuts, but if you are not a fan yourself you can never imagine how it is. Especially when it comes to fans of J-pop and K-pop, I think they beat everyone on the entire planet in being crazy fans. But it is all love~ And it is hard to explain, so whatever.

8,500 people going out

So after two and a half hours with the time of my life everyone packed their bags with confetti from the concert (everyone here collect confetti) and went out. 

Afterwards I went to see my cute exchange friend Paula, and we had a great time in Fukuoka before I had to leave for my train home. It was super nice meeting her(she is also a fellow Johnny's nerd, Janiisu otaku), even though I was bothered with an terrible headache which I think came from being too excited, and dancing with my penlight and uchiwa for two and a half hours straight. Small price to pay though.

On my way home on the shinkansen I felt I had to take some pictures with my hand after I got to shake it with Yamashita Tomohisa. It is now holy and will always have this beautiful shine to it, hehe. I am not that crazy though, I washed it the same night. The happy expression on my face lasted for at least a week. 

YAMAPI, PLEASE COME TO EUROPE

I LOVE YOU

 THANK YOU!

fangirl peace out