Arkivert under: Uncategorized | Tags: AFS, bøker, bibliotek, bilder, habikino, Japan, osaka, skole, tennoji
Jeg tenkte rett og slett at jeg skulle legge ut noen bilder som jeg fant fra Habikino og Osaka. Jeg har nå blitt helt småforelsket i Habikino, og jeg gleder meg til å tilbringe de neste elleve månedene der. Byen har ikke mindre enn 7 (eller var det 8?) bibliotekfillialer, noe bare en lesehest som meg ville orke å finne ut. Det spørs nå om de har noe utvalg av engelsk litteratur da, men Central Toshokan så jo ganske lovende ut.
H a b i k i n o / 羽曳野市
Central Toshokan – Se på alle bøkene! 
Og slik ser det ut på utsiden! Se så fint!
Lenge leve google og dets mangel på bilder fra Habikino-shi!
O s a k a / 大阪市
Osaka
Osaka Photo (c) Naoya Hatakeyama
Dette bildet syns jeg fanger veldig godt storbyfølelsen som Osaka gir en
Slottet i Osaka er et pent syn. I forgrunnen ser man Sakura, kirsebærblomstene Japan er så kjente for.
I Osaka skal jeg altså gå på skole, og her følger noen bilder fra skolen, tatt fra skolens hjemmeside.
Skolen har faktisk en årlig vannballongkrig, hvor awesome er ikke det?
I fjor dramatiserte de Death Note.
Noe som ser ut som en Maid Kafé under den årlige kulturfestivalen eller noe.
Får bare slutte av der for i dag.
Arkivert under: Uncategorized | Tags: AFS, habikino, host family, Japan, Kyoto, osaka, tennoji, video log, vlog
This is the vlog I made about my host-family and city. 
You also get to know what that post a few days ago was all about.
Arkivert under: Uncategorized | Tags: AFS, awesome, exchange, habikino, honma ni, host family, Japan, osaka
Today I recieved news of my host-everything. A Vlog will shortly be up.
I will be living in Habikino-shi, Osaka-fu. And I will go to Osaka Ten’noji High School in Tennoji-ku, Osaka-shi.
For those of you not steady in the suffixes, that means I will be living in the city of Habikino in the prefecture of Osaka (120,000 people) – a suburb to Osaka I guess – but will be attending to a school in the Tennoji ward of Osaka City.
Osaka City is the second largest city in Japan by daytime, when its population is 3,7 million people. For comparison, in the country of Norway, where I live, there is about 4,7 million people in total. So yeah.
By Nighttime, Osaka is down to 2,6 million. I guess the 1,1 million difference are people like I’ll be, who live just outside Osaka and go there for school or work.
I’m a little bit disappointed that I didn’t get to go to Kyoto as AFS told me earlier (see the last post), but hey.. Osaka-ben is worth it.
Osaka-ben is the dialect commonly associated with Osaka. It’s from what I’ve understood, very different from the Tokyo-japanese that we all learn in our books. One more challenge for me, but also one more reward to claim when the year finishes.
My host “family” is a host “grandmother” of 69 years. She’s not married, from what I can see, and she lives alone – no kids or anything. I think that’s just great, even though I’ll miss having pets and siblings as I have here at home. My host obaa-san is named Y. Kasai. Kasai is a very typical Japanese name, like the Norwegian “Hansen” and “Olsen”. (I don’t know of english equalients, sorry.)
Now I have to tell this to my real mother.. hmm..
