Yes, me again. Today I decided to skip class (it was boring stuff and repeated, I already took that in Sydney) because there was a much better excuse, Quique in Barcelona!!! I met him in Ps. Gracia near Casa Batlló and we went to have breakfast in a typical chocolate bar (very very old) then we went down to Santa Maria del Mar church, Arc de Triomf, Sagrada Familia and then Francesc Macia where we had lunch at Fresco's. Then I took him home and I show him my place and then we said goodbye because his plane to Logroño was about to leave soon! I'll miss our nights in 604, parties and so on, we are not just 3 levels apart! snif sniffff :( but well see each other in 2 weeks! and we have to do more plans!

Apart of that I was shocked about yesterdays news ... Nando blown up!!! Incredible!!!
http://livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/04/Sydney_gas_blast_1000_people_evacuated

They said it took them about 1h to evacuate all the people (mostly UTS students) and that our fire alarm didn't sound ... weird ... lets see what Jon tells me! It is quite normal to be that long to evacuate UTS because nobody should have listen to them! (as most of the time is a fake or a burnt toast...)

And about me, I am more or less fine, suffering from PAS (Post Australia Syndrome) but no worries, I'll be fine ... soon.

tc

xoxoxoxo

PS: I love this song (Sum 41) amazing!!! (comes from Gossip Girl)

"With me"

I don't want this moment, to ever end,
Where everything's nothing, without you.
I'll wait here forever just to, to see you smile,
Cause it's true, I am nothing without you.

Through it all, I made my mistakes.
I stumble and fall,
But I mean these words.

I want you to know, with everything I won't let this go.
These words are my heart and soul,
I hold on to this moment you know.
Cause I'd bleed my heart out to show, that I won't let go.

Thoughts read are spoken, forever in doubt.
And pieces of memories fall to the ground.
I know what i did and so, I won't let this go.
Cause it's true, I am nothing without you.

All the streets, where I walked alone,
With nowhere to go.
Have come to an end.

I want you to know, with everything I won't let this go.
These words are my heart and soul,
I hold on to this moment you know.
Cause I'd bleed my heart out to show, that I won't let go.

In front of your eyes, it falls from the skies,
When you don't know what you're looking to find.
In front of your eyes, it falls from the skies,
When you just never know what you will find.

I don't want this moment to ever end.
Where everything's nothing without you.

I want you to know, with everything I won't let this go.
These words are my heart and soul,
I hold on to this moment you know.
Cause I'd bleed my heart out to show, that I won't let go.

I've been thinking if I should keep going on with the blog or not, my trip has ended already and now life is so routine that its not that exciting ... But I might give it a try, but be aware, it would be just random thoughts or my feelings depending on the day ...

Semester started 4 weeks ago ... last semester of uni, or last 2 trimesters as we normally do ... here is all the same, well i wasn't expecting it to be different ... maybe I am ... Meeting all the people you know and love its great, and knowing all the gossip too

6 months till I graduate (I cant wait) but until then its all about making plans, or "applying" to plans ... some of them will eventually come up ... who knows ... I have a job interview next thursday and I am starting as intern in uni in IT support, they pay really bad but I get credits for it! and I am starting a seminar about leadership skills too (thats why they called me from the company I guess, I never sent them my resume).

Then we have the graduation trip to Cancun, I don't have the money (so it will be on my parents) and I want to go, or maybe not, but definitely if I am going to Mexico I want to go somewhere else ... :P Lets see, I am undecided ...

The weekend basically is party and meeting my friends and I am so looking forward to meet all the people from first semester in Aragon, we are renting a house there ... it will be really fun!!!

So thats it for now, and about shows: no tv-shows (damn strike), books: keep reading the gossip girl saga (now looking for number 5 :P), and movies: Juno, Charlie Bartlett, Amor en tiempos de Colera, No country for old men, PS: I love you

take care, and I hope to write soon with more fresh news!!!

xoxo

Tomorrow, I am back to Barcelona. My year is finished. A year full of experiences, I would say good and bad but theres been no bad experiences except for the goodbyes. Traveling makes you grow in all the senses, and people you know on the way are like your family, and its hard to have family so far away from you! If somebody had told me at the beginning of the year that it would end like this, I would have never believed it, even laugh about it!

So yes, I am sad because its finished, but so happy because it happened. I am coming back with Australia in my bags and in my heart, and you know I will come back (I am miss stubborn), you know it as sure as I will apply for MIT :P . Meanwhile many plans will come, and I am so looking forward to next june - july when everybody that I miss will be here (at least I hope so!).

Until then, 6 f***in boring months left in UPF, but as Peyton Sawyer said in One Tree Hill:

"Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will"

So, until we meet again, take care, and call me in skype! because I will miss you all so much! what will I do without my indians in class? what will I do in the quizzes? And the sunday lunches? and my beloved rooftop? snif snif ... our wonderful flat, sheesha, our son annoying all the time and saying waaag one blud, mick singing in the shower, mehdi listening "dame veneno que quiero morir", manu and the popcorn, bulga 406, so many trips ...

Thanks for the memories!

I love you so much!

PS: Now instead of nusainsydney should be nusainsydneybackinbarcelona ... :P

tc

kisses!!!

and pray for me so they dont make me pay overweight! see you on Christmas day!

Third day in Tokyo, well today in Nikko.

I was supposed to wake up early (around 6am) blablabla ... and I woke up at 8am hehe I got dressed and direct and fast to Asakusa to take the train to Nikko. It was quite easy, I tell you, I love the trains in this city, they are amazing, clean, fast, easy, comfortable and the seats have heat!!! So 2 hours later I arrived to Nikko. Countryside, snowy, and I took the bus to the temples. I stopped there, and it seemed empty. Nobody there ... I saw something that was like the booth (for the tickets) and suddenly a woman appeared she took my ticket and gave me the ticket for the temples and the shrines, and a map in Japanese of course so I wont get lost!!! So I started walking to see the place. I entered into the first temple, tree big statues (buda like) and a man dressed typically explaining everything in english ... then a woman (non japo) looks at me and asks me -are u english?- and I say yes! and we started talking. Carol, from London, travelling the round the world trip, to visit her daughter who is teaching English in Tokyo (they need that really) and later his son in Australia (who is traveling as well). And we visited all the temples and shrines together, and I got a chance to practice good English and talk with somebody that is not the wall ... We ate in a typical japo place, but the food wasn't that good (but quite cheap though) and around 4pm we took the train back to the city, and guess what, we stopped in Kasukabe!!!!!!!!!! I dont know if u really remember Shin Chan, but they lived there!!! It was so funny that i took a picture hehehehe I arrived there say goodbye to Carol and back to the hostel with some sushi, I am so tired!!!

Tomorrow, emperors birthday so lets mix with the japanese! I dont know yet what i am going to do in the afternoon.

Last day in Tokyo and back to Barcelona! I miss you my Sydney people!!! lots of love from Tokyo

PS1: I can now understand their bad taste in cars, all of them look like my atos!!!

PS2: There are mirrors for woman in the stations, to put more makeup!!!

PS3: They are so "luck" maniacs! They sell you all kind of stuff related with luck, oracles and so on

PS4: The most famous souvenir is a little thing to hang on the cellphone! so tacky!!!

Second day in Tokyo. After my catastrophic arrival to the hostel i met the Colombian woman that recommended me places to go for today. So I decided to try to go to Shinjuku. I am sure there I could find an Information centre. I get there easily, the trains are awesome and so easy to understand that I would never leave them if I could! And I went off the station and I got lost ... lost searching the information centre ... nice ... Thank god a nice man that was english put me in the right direction and 20 min later I reached the information centre. The woman gave me a lot of maps and directions and i first went to the observatory (same building) its weird to get into a lift and there is only 3 buttons 1, 2 and 45 and it starts, you can count 1 ... ... 2 ... ... and then pum! you are in level 45!!! as if it was a rocket!!! wow I can prove now that level 45 is not enough to take a little glance of the city, its sooo big!!!!! Then I went back to the station to go to the other side, that apparently was good. It was just a lot of shops and show, that it was nice, but quite dissappointing, or at least not what i wanted to see in that moment. At lunch I jumped on the train again, I love these trains theyre so good, and I went to Asakusa. That was freakin awesome. That was what I wanted to see. Japan old and typical style, temples, trees, human taxis ... tourists with cameras!

I had a nice walk in the area, took lots of pictures and I reached to the entrance of the temple. Then I saw like a big fire and people inhalating the fire like it was "cleaning" their souls (and apparently it has to be like this!) on the side, there was a big fountain, with people washing their hands and having a little sip of water to wash their mouth as well. And then a man came to talk to me, perhaps because he saw my face of surprise ... he explained me everything, how the thing worked, the game of good and bad luck in the temple (I got bad luck but then I put the paper in a place so the temple can guard me from the bad luck) and he also gave me recommendations for tomorrow (to Nikko and the imperial palace) and a japanese thing to keep you warm called "hotto", its like a bag that looks like a kid toy and when you open it and put it in your pocket keeps you warm ... amazing. he must saw that i got a cold and felt sorry for me hehehehe we took a picture together with mr Hideo and exchange emails and I will send him my impressions about Nikko. I went into a little shop to buy some fruit, there was an old woman, that laughed about my bag and starts saying: piiiig! jajajaja piiiiig!!! (I dont know why it was that funny ....)

After that I came back to the hostel (at 4pm) because it was getting dark, and I started talking to everybody in messenger, skype or googletalk. First I talked with Dhammika, and then Jon and afterwards my parents. I miss Australiaaaaa! its my home too u know that. I went to have dinner in McDonalds and came back to have more internet. Because when you are travelling alone you feel more than ever the need to talk with people.

Until now i was making friends in the hostel. Eric and Jake. Eric is from Hong Kong, and its his first time in Japan. He is so scared but enjoying the country a lot, speaks bad english but is funny. Jake is from Indiana, US, and arrived here december 1st to go hiking to beautiful places all around Japan. He missed his flight today, so he is staying until 23rd. They both went for a walk now (separately) but its so cold outside that i am gonna go to sleep soon, because tomorrow Nikko is waiting for me, very soon. I should catch the train around 7am!!! Too early!!!

PS1: Next time in Japan remember what they taught you in GSM, GPRS classes, Japan does not have GSM! its another frequency !!! result = my phone is totally dead.

PS2: Electronics are not cheaper, same price

PS3: The toilets are awesome, I think they can even massage your bottom!!! bufff!

Thats all for today, I miss you all more than ever! Love

Asun

I am in Tokyo, and I am fine.

Since I am not in Australia anymore, now the blog will be in english, because i will continue the blog. Maybe just to give to Jon some distraction while working hehehe to make him think that is a monkey instead of cuteeee ;) I wont talk about the goodbye, because i am enough heartbroken, i will talk about todays story.

I checked in with overweight but luckily i didn't have to pay anything but it was hard ... So i went into the plane with my australian jumper, UTS t-shirt, Jons scarf (Go Manly!) and the dog, and the kangaroo ... yes I looked like a Christmas tree! The seat next to me was an english guy who slept almost all the time, and when we left i realised that he was so small! like a smurf!!! I didnt like qantas, it wasnt good ... and I had already watched all the movies so ... boring! The funny thing was that the guy that was serving the food was a Manly supporter, and he gave me "special" treatment. He comes and says "go manly!!!" and i was .. ehhh ahhhh!!! yes! go manly!!! i had the dog (the one that valon gave me) and a lot of people that came through "oohhh, how cuteee!!!" I arrived to Tokyo on time, pretty good, but fucking cold (6ºC) i managed to go to immigration, then pick the bag and left it in a baggage storage room. First contact with Japanese woman, they speak really bad bad english. I could only understand arigato, so just smile and say yes ... I took the train, thanks to a nice guide that explained me how to, but it was pretty easy, and 1h25 min later (exactly as they told me) I got to Asakusabashi station. Here came the problems ... 9pm ... information closed ... I forgot to write the address of the hostel or the phone number .... and my phone (both of them) are dead ... Ok, lets try to take a taxi ... I try, and then he tells me something in japanese -"speak english" -"nonono" (like this 4 taxis) ... maximum desperation ... I was about to call Jon to Australia to ask him to find the address and I tried again the taxi, no english, but two business men that wanted a taxi as well they talked to me in english!!! Thank god!!! As I didnt have any number or address, one of them called information, and the other one put the GPS in his mobile phone to find a map of the area. They called to the hostel, and they took me until the door. Thank god to Mister Suzuki ... they saved me! (I had like 50 min before the check in closes so it was this or sleeping in the street!) Now i am connected to the hostel wifi, which is quite good, and I found a Colombian woman that knows how to speak Japanese that has told me what to do tomorrow. Lets hope I dont get lost ... I might get a japanese card to be available because its so hard to communicate with the people!!! I talked to Jon in googletalk and I felt better, otherwise i am going to miss you too much that Ill have to drag you directly to Barcelona ...

Anyway, I am going to sleep right now, take care all of you

I am missing you a lot (Jon, Aarti, Sarah, Maria, Manu, Quique, Jyo ;), Dhammika, Mohit, Amit ... )

From Tokyo with love

Asun

Mi ultimo dia en Australia empieza ahora. Por la mañana a la Ópera, luego tramites y demas, por la tarde quien sabe, y por la noche nuestra ultima fiesta en el rooftop. Quiero ser fuerte pero me da que voy a llorar de todas maneras ... si toda la gente que ha dicho que viene, viene, buffff demasiada gente para decir adios ... bueno, no adios, solo hasta luego ...

Hoy Jon ha cocinado Lasagna para mi y menuda lasagna, la mejor que he probado nunca! Que mono que es mi niño grande y como le voy a echar de menos ... gracias a dios que se planta en Europe en 6 meses que sino me da un patatus ... Mi habitacion ya esta casi pelada del todo ... 21 kilos en la maleta en espera de los zapatos ... y a las 12 , despues de las campanadas han dado las notas ... gran expectacion, nervios en el rooftop ... TIM (Telecommunications Industry Management) por fin se revela ... 92!!! High Distinction!!!! Estoy que aun lo flipo vamos! Esto impulsara mi expediente español un rato que despues de la paliza de cuarto se quedo hecho papilla ... que bien que nos lo pasamos en esta asignatura! lo unico que me jode es que Jyo ha sacado 95! que rabia! siempre me gana!!! jejejejeje es lo que tiene juntarse con la puta elite jejejeje

Ale pues, voy a lavar los platos, y a dormir un rato, que mañana quiero saborearlo hasta el ultimo momento ... Por cierto a partir de ahora estoy abierta a quedadas por España, Pamplona Madrid o Barcelona pronto? Sabeis que no voy a aguantar sin veros de nuevo mucho tiempo ... Of course Mexico pronto pero eso necesita mas que un fin de semana :P Ademas como dice la camiseta yo soy Little Miss Stubborn, por lo que si se me mete algo entre ceja y ceja ... ale!

buenas noches!!! besossss