Okay so looking back at my blog, I realized I only posted ONE TIME during my last trip to Japan. During that time & thinking back on everything, I don't think I was ever so busy in my life.

 I missed orientation day so I had to catch up with the rest of the class, I had to study all of the hiragana & katakana alphabet within a month, buy a bed & other furniture that I needed (or else I had to sleep and eat on the hard floor), figure out the quickest route to get to school, get a phone line for my apartment, get internet for my apartment, report a stalker (long story, I'll make a video about it later...true story Tuesday?), find a friend to help me build my new furniture ( Japanese instructions), go to the internet cafe everyday to finish my homework (no internet in my apartment) & soooo much more.


 I realized that I never got around to posting pictures of my apartment decor after it was finished. In this blog entry here, I posted ideas of how I wanted to decorate my apartment. I mentioned how a Facebook friend of mine on Facebook was living in Osaka with her boyfriend & they had all black & white interior. Very fancy, very posh. Granted she was living with her edgy "ikemen" boyfriend so she wasn't able to have cute frilly pink things...I mean...if she wanted...>_> lol. Me on the other hand, I was living alone & I'm a girl who happens to like cute frilly pink things. So my empty apartment was like a blank canvas. Let's just say, I had a little too much fun when it came time to shop for my furniture.

I'll post a few photos. Unfortunately I never took any super clear pictures but with the ones I post, you can get a general idea.



This is what my apartment looked like, the first few days of me moving in. I literally had a futon cover for a twin sized futon ( that didn't exist) that I was coaxed into buying from a sweet old Japanese woman who couldn't understand my Japanese, a humidifier~ that also doubled as a nightlight (it kept my skin so moisturized ^__^), an ironing board that the previous owner left behind, & the things I bought with me.















The next photo below was about 3 weeks after I had moved in. As you can see, I bought much more stuff. I bought a lilac rug from Donki, a used TV from a used appliance store (for super cheap might I add~ & barely used!!), a kotatsu table (heater table), wall stickers to spice it up a bit, another square hanger to hang up my laundry indoors, some more pillows & a standing~ no BS mirror. Oh and you see those 2 floor chairs? Those are the seat cushions from the sofa, that double as separate chairs!! How innovated is that??
My apartment was coming together.



















The last part of my decorating was separating the kitchen area from the living area. So I installed curtains, which these photos don't do justice to how nice it really looked.






 Oh & I almost forgot!! Here are some photos of my bath area. The tubs in Japan are very different from the tubs in America. In America, tubs are normally balanced between depth and length. So not super long and not really deep. In Japan, normally tubs aren't that long but they are really deep! At least old tubs in Japan. (Recently newly built apartments/houses in Japan have American sized bathtubs. Some are even bigger than there American tubs. )
 I'm very tall, with really long legs , when I sat in my tub, the water would go up to my chin. Completely covering my bent knees! Also it's okay if the water comes out on the sides because there is a drain in the middle of the floor. The shower compartment isn't over the bathtub itself ( like in America) but it's to the side of the bathtub. You're supposed to shower on a stool outside of the tub and then soak and relax inside the tub afterwards. After you soak inside the tub, you shower yourself down again and leave the bath area.  Blah...that was hard to explain...it's much easier done, than said.

Also I LOVE Japanese bath salts!! So almost every other day I would experiment with new ones that I would buy on my way home from school.




 I'm glad I finally made this blog entry! I kept putting it off but I finally made some time to upload the pictures and explain them. I have sooo many photos from Japan and each one tells a story so I'll just be uploading more stories in the future. It helps keep me motivated!