"Eigo Night" hosts needed

Café Frosch is now looking for a host for its weekly English learners' corner. 

”Eigo Night” is held every Wednesday from 19:00 till 21:00 in a relaxing atmosphere in a Machiya townhouse cafe in Nishijin, Kyoto. We're looking for a friendly and reliable individual with English as his/her mother tongue to host it from mid-July. English teaching experience (esp to Japanese people) is welcomed. 
This position is for those who intend to and can stay in Japan in the next 6 months or longer.

Join our fun loving international team and enjoy our international/cultural events with us! 

Please contact Kayo for details.
075-205-2703
info@cafe-frosch.com

So, hopefully this will be my last blogpost about hospitals in a looong time..

I broke the collar bone in my right shoulder while surfing in Bali this spring break, and since the part of the bone that broke was close to the joint the doctor told me that a surgery was necessary in order to stabilize the shoulder. To make a long story short, I ended up with a metal plate screwed to my shoulder, which has been bothering me for almost four months now. As I previously wrote, I had the chance to get another surgery here in Japan in order to get the plate removed, and last weekend I checked into the clinic where I've been going to rehabilitation since I came back to Japan.

I have to say that beside the long hours of waiting everything went really well (to be honest, the long hours were mostly spent studying so it didn't really vary that much from my normal days..).
I also had a dvd of the drama called "1 litre of tears" (1リトルの涙) with me, which I bought last year in Taiwan. Yeah, I've been busy..
I have to say that although it was a great drama I'm not sure if I would recommend it for those of you who needs entertainment while in hospital.. x)

Last but not least, I had some great friends who came visiting me, which of course made the stay a lot better.

I guess the whole point with this blogpost just was to let everybody know that the surgery went fine, and that I'm ready for some hardcore rehabilitation from now on. I miss doing sports x)...
And for those who wonders; Japanese hospitals are great x) especially the food. さすが

..My landlord even came by with a grapefruit!

Lastly, some pictures from my weekend in hospital:

Some of my friends brought me cookies and other snack^^

And this is.. My one and only souvenir from Bali ><

Japanese hospital food.. Yummy:)

I got an article about my participation in the Toka-Ebisu festival published in Assosiation of Norwegian Students Abroad - ANSA -'s magazine Utlendighet (nr. 02/2012), feel free to check it out^^. (Unfortunately it is only available in Norwegian)

Some of my readers out there might already know the story about how I broke my shoulder when I was surfing in Bali during spring break. Since the collar bone broke close to the joint I had to go through surgery, and now I have a pretty big metal plate in my shoulder..

I have been going to rehabilitation twice a week ever since, but I still cannot lift my arm more than 70 degrees, even though it has been almost four months. The latest x-rays showed that the bone in my shoulder finally has healed, and the doctor recommended me having a new surgery as soon as possible in order to get rid of the metal plate.

Apparently they don't use this method in Japan anymore, and my physiotherapist didn't really understand why I wasn't able to lift my arm. However, my doctor suggested that the size and form of the plate is hindering my range of movement, and that I probably won't be able to lift my arm again if I don't have another surgery. Even though the bone in the shoulder has healed, it seems that the pain gets stronger every day I wake up in the morning, so I'm actually really looking forward to getting this over with!

I'm going to stay in hospital at least for four days, and I fear that it'll be rather boring..The thing is, when it comes to a Japanese hospital (or perhaps its just mine?), they do have quite a lot of strict rules one has to be aware of. Some of the rules are;
・携帯電話（メールも含む）は医院ではしようしないで下さい。
・外部からの電話は緊急時以外は取り次ぎいたしません。
・外出・外泊は院長の許可を受けて下さい。

This will be my new home for the next four days..

Just got informed that there is a strong typhoon heading for Kyoto right now.. Pretty scary stuff, I guess it's best to hurry home now:p..


Update: It turned out not to be such a big typhoon after all. Judging by the warnings at school I would at least have expected a little bit more wind, but it was almost like a normal autumn day in my hometown Bergen (which is infamous for bad weather).

The wind was however strong enough to destroy my umbrella on the way home.. ><

My umbrella got destroyed by the Typhoon ><

Taco fiesta at Ritsumeikan.. ^^

All hand-made!

...And a birthday cake

The obligatory group picture ;p

..AAAnd a student who for some reason wanted to test out how it would feel to get the rest of the cake smashed in his face..

Tenryuuji (天龍寺)

Tenryuuji (天龍寺)

The bamboo-forest in Arashiyama

The bamboo-forest in Arashiyama

A devil statue in Ninna-ji (仁和寺)

The five-towered pagoda in Ninna-ji (仁和寺)

A Buddha-statue in Ninna-ji (仁和寺)

Group picture in front of the Golden Pavilion

Some of the boys and our mini-bus!

Did you know that Kyoto City has a one-day bus pass you can buy instead of paying for every ride?

A one-day pass for the Kyoto City Bus

This is quite practical for tourists, as 240 yen for a ride really isn't that cheap. With the bus pass you pay 500 yen, and you can ride as many times as you want during that day within the city (note that some outskirts areas such as Arashiyama is not included in the ticket).

In Kyoto you pay for the bus ride when you get off the bus, and if you want a one-day pass you can simply say "ichinichi jyoshaken kudasai" (一日乗車券下さい) to the bus driver.

Those of you who've read my previous post know how I tried out hosting a girl through Couchsurfing.org for the first time this weekend, and how it ended up with my guest forcing herself to stay longer than originally planned despite me already having other plans.


As I suspected, about thirty minutes after I finished the previous blogpost she called me, and said she had found a place to stay for the night in Kyoto. I was relieved, and thought I finally would get rid of her, but again she had other things in mind.
I met up with her another half an hour later, and it turned out that the place she had found not was for this evening, but instead for the following night (although I'm suspecting that she in reality is off to Osaka instead). She told me a straight lie about how she had searched CS for other hosts, without any luck. I asked her when she had done this, and she replied "sometimes in the middle of the day". Just too bad for her that I already had checked her CS-account, and it stated she hadn't been online for 23 hours.


So, as the clock was close to 11 pm I had no choice but letting her stay with me one last night. I guess that had been her plan all along.. >.<

And so ends my first (and probably last) experience with CS! What a waste of time and energy. >.<

Luggage left in my room by a couch-surfer.. ><

So.. It seems that I'm going to have a one-year break from Japan, because I got accepted into Kyung Hee University's Graduate Institute of Peace Studies through Ritsumeikan University's Double Master Degree Program! (Not to mention that I'm apparently the first Ritsumeikan-student ever going to the Korean school through this program^^)
Here I'm going to follow their program in International Political Science (Peace and Global Governance Studies), and thus when I graduate from Ritsumeikan next year I'll have two master degrees (if everything goes as planned).

Yay, me so happy :3

Stay in tuned for my year in Korea! xD

Kyung Hee University in Korea

The coolest T-shirt on campus!! "A camera is a device which is used to take photos of a motif"

I got contacted again by Lycée a little while ago and asked if I wanted to come back and do some more modeling for them. The thing is, this beauty parlor has a number of hair salons in Osaka and Kobe, and are constantly looking for foreigners interested in hair modeling. Here are a couple of pictures from my last session:



And here is Lycée's blogpost about the photo shoot.
As I wrote in my previous post, Lycée is always looking for foreigners who might be interested do modeling for them, so if you happen to be in the area and also are in the need for a free haircut, then you could always contact them through their web page.

ゆうまちゃん！今日1年間半の記念日になったね。早かったなぁ〜。

一緒に遊んだり、トレーニングしたり、旅行したり、パーティーしたりして、めっちゃいい思い出いっぱいできた。辛い時もあったけど、ゆうまちゃんはずっとそばにいてくれたから心強かった。日本ではいい経験山ほどあるけど、やっぱりゆうまちゃんと出会ったのはそのなかの最もよかったことだと私は思う。今は遠距離でちょっと寂しいけど将来もゆうまちゃんと一緒にいたいから東京で仕事を見つけるために精一杯頑張る。

ゆうまちゃん大好きやで〜！ヤイ　アー　シェンペグラー　イ　ダイ♡


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