Ikea + Onsen

Hello Dear Readers! ♥

So it's daily life here. Still it doesn't feel like I'm really here. I don't know. It's somehow wierd. Do you know those moments when you're just standing there, in a crowd of people, still, and it feels like your in some kind of a bubble? Like if you weren't there. You just imagine it? Or dream it? It sometimes feels like that for me. Hard to explain haha :D But I just sometimes feel like it's not the reality. I still can't really get it hahaha
Been talking about it for years and now I'm here and can't realise it, just too awkward haha :D

Well now, since my apartment had only the necessairy things I went to Ikea with my friend Severine in the first week of January just after school had started. Just bought diffrent things I "need" for daily life. Yeah a plant, hahaha, I need that for daily life. No, that was actually to bring a little bit of life in my lonely apartment. Since I'm living alone here I feel a little bit lonely sometimes, but because I'm kept quite busy it's not that often.

Do you know what the weirdest thing was about ikea? THE FOOD! It was sooooo weird to eat the meatballs there and they just tasted EXACTLY the same they do in the ikea in Switzerland. Well of course they do, but still. It always has been so european to me, haha, strange right?

You can see my little planty! It's now on top of the mini mini mini TV I have in my apartment. Just for that plant I'm opening the curtains every day so it can get some sunlight. If it wasn't there I think I wouldn't open my curtains at all! :D

These were the houses near ikea. Honestly, I wouldn't want to live there!

Since Severine and me had been kept so busy and Severine still had some trainticket, she asked me to go to Hakone together with her. Of course I agreed! Ok, I wasn't sure at first, since it took us over 100minutes to go there, because we couldn't use special lines, ONLY JR. But I'm happy I agreed since the Onsen was aaaaawesomeness pure and just what I needed after those busy days.

Hakone Station from the outside where our bus left.

Hakone is really diffrent to Tokyo, although it's not that far away, it's much less noisy and more quite. Also mooooore nature like. We went there to a Onsen place called Tenzan. The price wasn't expensive at all. About 1200yen without time restriction. One can also buy a towel there for like 350yen. So really not expensive. The onsen can be reached by a short busride of 10 minutes which only costs 100yen. Honestly, I've neeeeever been in a bus that small! Or well, at least that low! Like you all know I'm not the smallest person, so when I was standing on both legs, straight, my head totaly hit the roof! So I wasn't able to stand straight lol. Besides that the bus was sooooo packed, that we didn't have a chance to get a seat. It was a uneasy ride, but luckily it didn't last long.

Arrived there we had to get our tickets out of machines like that. Sorry for the blurry pic. Took it after leaving from the onsen and then it was already dark, so my keitai didn't wanna take a nice pic..

However, the onsen was awesome! Before entering the hot springs we washed ourselfs very well. Stupid foreigners as we are we wanted to enter the hottest spring of them first, lol :D Since we didn't know that it was the hottest. I really couldn't enter because it hurt my feet like hell! x__X Luckily a woman was kind enough to explain us in english, that it was the hottest and we should start at one outside. Said, done. Muuuuuch better! There were many mothers with their kids, oh god, we really had cutness flashes hahaha

We enjoyed staying at the onsen, and I've never felt cleaner than after that. One plus point was also, after onsen I was 300g less heavy :D

So if you ever get the chance to go to Hakone, I can warmely recommand you to go to Tenzan. Really quiet and nice atmosphere. The staff were really friendly and kindly helped us when we had questions. The only minus point was, that there was nothing written in English, but that's nothing new in Japan, so one just has to cope with it. We for our part didn't have a problem with it

Hello again blurry pics haha :D

No pics of myself here since I was so tired on that day and was looking really messed up. To be honest we went clubbing from saturday to sunday (sunday was onsen-day), so yah, you can imagine what I looked like after not that much sleep ;D