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Mah room - second post
I really wanted to go outside and stroll a little through my own district today in order to search for cheap (secondhand) books for my master's thesis today. But then, it started raining just when I decided to get up... Of course. We haven't seen any rain in a while, so it's nice to have some rain for a change.[/dripping sarcasm]
Anyway, then instead, I'll just stick around a little more in my comfy pajamas and upload those pictures from my room. I made some a while ago, but now I finally achieved to put away all that stuff lying around, and even my giant suitcase is now safely hidden in my cupboard! That alone merits new pictures and a nice meal as a reward, don'tcha think so?<3
Well, I haven't managed to clean up everything, but this'll do for now for the pics.

Well, what can I say about that except that this is my room? May I draw your attention on the tidiness on the floor? You have no idea how many things were lying around because I didn't have any place to put them away, but now even the trunky suitcase is gone and I finally managed to throw the (completely) broken vacuum cleaner away.
My desk is still messy, but most of it with papers I need to throw away and just don't know yet in which trash bin. Seriously, in case you thought that the german or french waste separation system was complicated, you have clearly never ever been trying to figure out the japanese system!
Other items with modest interest: When Severine (one of the girl from Switzerland) and I went to the administrator of the hall with few hope that he might know how to repair our broken tvs, he had a brief look at them and told us to report this to the one in charge of us exchange students. When we finally did, a bit embarrassed to make such a fuss about what should be nothing but bad luck, Hatsuhara-san, the one in charge, had already been contacted by the administrator and told us she'd take care of that. Uhm, does that mean we are about to get new tvs, sponsored by the university?Oo Anyhow I haven't heard anything about a new tv being delivered to us yet, which is why I'm still hesitant as to what believe...
Those low tables are typical for Japan by the way, I adapted that custom in no time and can't even imagine how to live without anymore! Although I have a real desk, I rather use this table for homework, eating, reading... well, for quite anything! I'm seriously considering purchasing one to ship it back to Europe because I can't remember seeing any low tables that handy as that one, but then again I'm a bit scared to even ask for the shipping price. *coughs*


The view out of my balcony:







It's quite cloudy outside for the moment, but otherwise it's very nice here, and I love to have my window wide open whenever I can and listen to the birds and crickets. Unfortunately, my room is on the base floor, and it feels really weird to have the guys of the building in front of mine to walk around where they can have a good look of me, especially in the morning when I'm still lazy in my bed and they go to work. On top of that, I have to have my window closed whenever I leave the room and the our row of balcony is right in the watching field of the security cameras. Why, oh why can't I have a room, like, on the second floor for once? *whines*

By the way, say hello to "Onii-san":




...and the other angle of my room:







I GOT RID OF RILAKKUMA!!!*___* Severine was so kind to take it away a few days ago, now I can finally rest in peace!
No, ok, I'll admit that I didn't even notice it in the end, even though it was throning in the middle of the shelf, and I don't even go into the "right" shops where 50% of the articles consist of Rilakkuma merchandising, but that thing still grated at my nerves liek whoa!
Which grates at my nerves as well is still the incredible mess in there, although I have to confess that about 50% of that mess is my own. The other half on the other hand... I'm really looking forward to sort that out as well!
(On zanagi's special request though, have a pic of that bookshelf with Rilakkuma has it was a few weeks ago.)

The kitchen in the small corridor:





Unfortunately, I couldn't manage to have a good angle for the kitchen, which is sad, because I'm stupidly proud of my mad rearrangement skillz.
Then again, please ignore this mess in the entry, this is the stuff I have to throw away and haven't figured out where yet. Does anything have a clue where to throw away broken dishes (like a plastic soup bowl), clothes or half-melted batteries?;>_>





The angle for the bathroom photos is quite horrible, but I couldn't do better for now, and I don't have the patience to optimize the light quality with the photo editing software for those pics. Instead, have a pic of my baby and myself in my cutest Snoopy pajama doing impossible strains for the best angle. *drop*
The toilet unfortunately isn't one of the Captain-Kirk's-Commando-Seat types but a totally normal one, by the way. *g* Fortunately for me, those countless buttons and options are quite intimidating at times, when you don't dare push a button in fear that it will activate the catapult seat...;>_>
The shower on the other hand, is something I will miss so much when the time will come I have to leave Japan! Unlike showers in the West that are seperated by the rest of the bathroom by just a glass divider or a shower curtain, the whole cabin including the bathtub is the shower room. Which means you close the door and you have a complete room where you don't have to worry about splashing water on the walls or the ceiling, and since your showering outside of the bathtub, there is a drain on the floor. Traditionally, you have to make yourself completely clean before entering the hot bath, and if you choose the old style, you use a small taboret to sit down while you pour bassin after bassin of cold water on you. I have both, somewhere in a cupboard, but as I can use the shower head normally as well (yes, with hot water too), I have yet to use taboret and bassin.
I love this shower room, but there's one thing I like a lot less: I have to turn on the hot water with a button in a kitchen each time I want to use some, and of course it happened more than once that I forgot. I can choose the exact temperature and the quantity of hot water, which is nice, but not very handy when you have your 40°C hot water and you suddenly feel like it's not warm enough for a shower after all but you forgot to rize the heat beforehand. *facepalm*

One last pic, taken with my old camera a few weeks ago, because I'm too lazy to make another one right now:



This is what the corridor outside of my door looks like. To have your entry give on an exterior corridor is the usual way in Japan, even though this isn't handy at all when it's raining outside. Which is why on some days, when the rain and wind were especially strong, I didn't even dare to tiptoe my way to the lounge clinging at the wall, not with my laptop in my arms!

Anyway, that's all for today, and now I have to seize the last hours of daylight (at 5 p.m., everything is pitch-black night here) and while it isn't raining to have a good stroll outside and search for my books and possibly the third part of the Phoenix Wright series on the Nintendo DS. See you later...~♥