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So I'm officially old now.

Even though I went to school completely without my birthday in mind, apparently my classmates found out about and decided to embarrass me throughout the day ;)

First the Swedish people gathered around my desk and sang Happy Birthday (The Swedish version) and moments later, the koreans started singing the korean version. Jack had bought me some strange Pokémon-themed candy, as well as some other stuff. Halfway through the day two korean girls gave me a strawberry cake and a chocolate pudding-like thing.

My classmates had also planned to go out to a korean restaurant during the day to celebrate with some good food and drinks, but my damn stupidity prevented me from joining. You see, about three weeks ago, I found a new place in Shinjuku which I immediately booked. Little did I know that the moving-in date was February 3rd, my birthday. So as it turns out, I must clean my current room: Floors, ceilings, the air-conditioner, the windows, everything... as well as move all my stuff to Shinjuku. Normally I'd postpone it for one day, but if I do that I have to pay rent for ANOTHER MONTH (which is about 56.000Yen, or 5.400SEK) so I'd rather skip my birthday.
Anyway, I'm glad I have such great friends who wanted to make my birthday a big deal ^_^

Some of my presents! The corn-like candy is actually reserved for February 3rd here in Japan. It is an old japanese tradition to throw them on people wearing a certain demonic mask. I don't know that much about the tradition, but it sure was fun to see the teacher throw a bunch of corn at Markus, who was the victim and had to wear the mask throughout the whole class.

Also there have been quite a lot of earthquakes recently; One of which caused a volcano north of Tokyo to erupt, spreading its ashes all the way down here. Now everyone's kind of waiting for a similar earthquake to piss Mt. Fuji off, triggering an eruption and thus ending her 300-year-long slumber.

Japan's volcanoes. As you can see, there's quite a lot of them. And nearly all of these bastards are alive and kicking.

I'm just glad that I'm moving out of this house, which has clearly been built with wet cardboard and ductape. Now that I'll be living in my new Shinjuku place, I might actually even survive 'The Big One' when it inevitabily comes knocking.

Alrighty then... I'm already behind schedule so I can't afford to spend more time on this post; I have to get this room good and clean so that I'll get back my 20.000Yen deposit tomorrow when I turn in the lobby keycard and room keys.