Now it's official

Hi my friends, here I am again with some great news to share with you! But first of all I wanna share the fotos of the day, as my sis and me had a date with our japanese friend today. We had lunch together at the Cafe Relax, a japanese cafe and restaurant which is very popular. We ordered the daily set meal, which was really good. 

The set menu-starting at the middle and then clockwise: Kara-age (fried chicken), rice, salad, salmon, Harusame (noodles) and Miso soup

Even a dessert was included in the set menu! Left: Soymilk Mouse Right: Mango Mousse

After the lunch we went to the main office of a huge bank to change my sis' money into japanese Yen! The exchange rates are horrible at the moment, I almost cried when the (almost) 800 Euro were "only" worth 80,000 Yen... Two years ago I got 110,000 Yen for 800 Euro!! Anyways, here's a foto for all of you who haven't seen any Yen yet. (Unnecessary info though, but I've seen the first and real 500 Euro bill of my life today! I doubted they exist, only having seen them in movies, hahahaha!)

The 10,000 Yen is the biggest bill you can get, then comes the 5000 and the 1000 Yen bill. Other money comes in coins, with 500, 100, 50, 10, 5 and 1 Yen

Okay, here are my great news: I just booked my ticket to Japan a sec ago! Now my Working Holiday is kinda official, and I can't go back now. I was lucky enough to find a cheap flight with British Airways (yeah, waiting was really worth it, since my sis paid more for exactly the same flight). 

I will be leaving Germany on November, 1 at 10:50 a.m. from Düsseldorf Aiport via London Heathrow and arrive in Tokyo Narita on November, 2 at 9:10 a.m.

My Working Holiday will last for one year and I'm extremely excited. For all of you who wish to meet me in Tokyo, or happen to be there at the same time, I'm always looking for new friends, so feel free to contact me at anytime for a meet-up! Don't be shy, I'm very friendly and easygoing XDD I'm already looking forward to meeting Nic, Sara Mari and my other friends in Tokyo. Gosh, I'm so excited as I can't wait to come back to Japan again, it will be already my fourth time but I'm still not fed up with Tokyo, haha! 

Oh, yeah just an important note at the end of this post: for all of you who also write letters to me, be sure to send me the last letter before Nov, 1!! I will take your letters with me to Japan and continue to write to you from over there. If your letters come later than Nov, 1 I can't take them with me and you probably have to wait a year long for a reply, 'cause I don't want my Mum to send all of my personal post all the way to Tokyo. As soon as I've got my address in JP, I'll let you know. Hope we're still be penpalling a lot! =)

 

Okay, I'll go to bed early today as tomorrow is the great day for my sis. We'll bring her to the airport and see her off. She really appreciated all of your nice words and wishes, btw. Thank you guys!

Cologne and a watch story

Hello friends! Are you enjyoing your sunday? I haven't blogged for a while cause this week was full of work, I had to work almost everyday, and when I returned I just managed to leave comments on your blogs and that's it. No email replies, no blogging and no other things done on the Net. I have to look for a flight now the next days, and make a contract for my international health insurance. My sis is leaving for Japan in less than 3 weeks from now on, can't believe how fast time's flying now!

Have some random fotos: On Friday (my day off work :-) I met my friend Anne in Cologne. She is actually my penpal for over 5 years now, but we became really good friend with the time and meet here and then. We went to a sushi bar, Starbucks and chatted a lot :-)

The famous Cathedral of Cologne

The running sushi bar! 

I just love miso soup, could drink it all day long!

Some of the sushi we had

Bonus shot: my Kitty bracelet watch

Some fellow bloggers wanted to see my Kitty bracelet watch, so here you are! There is an interesting story to tell about that clock. I have it since about 5 years now, and I still love it so much. The best watch I'd ever had. Some weeks ago, I put it into the pocket of my jeans, and forgot to take it out before tossing the jeans to the laundry. You can maybe guess what happened: it was washed at 40 degrees in the washing machine. I was devastated, of course it was kinda broken then. I wanted to take it to the watchmaker to have it saved a few days later, but then I saw it was working again! A miracle happened! Something similar happend to my ipod in February, too! Seems my electronic devices love me so much they return from the dead XDDD Have a nice start to the new week!