It's the 20th of december right now, and I've been back in Sweden since the 6th.
Gosh I've missed my room. Not to mention my friends, my family, my pets, my bed, my sofa, my tv, my Nintendo 64. It's been superb to be back here and just have a nice (and quite well deserved) mental holiday for my poor potato head.
Though as the weeks have passed here, I've slowly started to feel a tiny bit homesick again. But this time for my second home, in dear UK. The school I can live without for a while longer, but it'll be nice to see my host family again (shoutout to Ashleigh and Bethany, miss you cuties <3), my homie Coffee #1, Cadbury chocolate and all my friends from school.

Still haven't processed that it's actually Christmas in just a few days! Just like always this year has passed so incredibly fast, yet so many awesome things happened, and especially the second half will be forever very memorable I'm sure. Going to make a post regarding new year later and probably make some resolutions that I will break that I can blog about. But until then, merry christmas and happy new year all of you!

I've been quite sentimental lately about Japan and my trip there last year. Isn't it always like that? How you really start appreciating how good something actually was, sometime later after it happened? I love looking at photos from there, and I can really remember the feeling I felt when I took it. The smells, the sounds, the air, even my mood that day. Many of these photos are from around Kyoto, both from Gion - the traditional geisha district - and the Fushimi Inari shrine, and the days we spent there were easily some of the highlights of the trip.

I'm definitely going back there someday, Japan is by far my favorite country and I felt so at home when I lived there. I miss my host family as well, the district I lived in, my class at the school, evenings in Shinjuku, the trains, the polite people. All those stereotypical things that don't get enough credit for how amazing they actually are. Everyone should go to Japan at least once and experience that, it's absolutely marvelous.

Here is some pictures from the area I lived in. It sure brings back memories!