Everything the light touches

I'll try to keep this short since I really don't have much time! But yeah, schools have started but I have got so many things I yet haven't said a word about, so I'll start up with those. So, I got invited to go to see the Gifu sakura matsuri with Ayuha and her friend Luli! Ayuha, is a girl living nearby and my HF introduced me to her which was awsome since she's such a cool guy (everybody's a guy to me okay don't get confused). We walked and talked a lot and first I thought this really wasn't going to be anything big, just tiny shops and all, but then I saw the omikoshi parade. (In the pictures below! :) It had dancers, trumpets, shoutig and carrying the mikoshi. It was super cool(literally as well). Also I did a kind of biking speed test and won a yellow towel! XD It was fun and I have a picture on my phone and at the moment I just can't get any pics out of it. Argh, try'na fix that as fast as possible.

Carrying omikoshi. Apparently this was a baseball team! :D

Yateya, small shops yummy yum

Just some reminder's that Gifu really isn't as small that they say it is, I bet it's larger than Helsinki, at least it seems like it. This large building is near the Gifu station, we went there to visit an anime shop but didn't find really anything else but a free One Piece flyer. Or only I did. But besides that I bought a lot of awsome things;
 I FOUND IGO AND SHOGI BOARDS NOW I CAN PLAY AND TEACH EVERYONE I'M SO HAPPY! Travel size and they were both like 6 euros, god that's cheap! Also bought a lot of food, ofc, including the world's best onigiri (wasabi taste). Here everybody keeps joking on how much I love riceballs but I just can't help it! Oh and melon cream soda is also freaking delicious! (And yeap, that in fact is the Paddington bear omikoshi they are carrying. I was so so surprised to see that one!)

 ~ This was my outfit of the day but after a while I realized the sweater was too much for outside (it was around 17C? idk). So in a nutcase I was in a t-shirt for most of the time while Ayuha and Luli were freezing with their jackets. Well, that kinda turned against me, since the day after we went to a dogshow with the family and they kept asking me are you really okay with those clothes and I laughed while telling them a Finn wouldn't mind getting a bit cold. But it was cold. REALLY cold. 5 hours outside I wrapped myself in blankets and drank hot tea but still shiverd. There went my reputation for having a great cold resistance.

 Dogs and their show^

And the next part doesn't really have anything to do with anything, but the day school started I was feeling a bit down and isolated but my HF took me to countryside to see some really famous cherryblossoms. It took an hour to get there first by car and then we took a train. Also visited an earthquake museum which was quite impressing. I really forgot all my worries and just 'let it go'.

On our way to see the Uzusumi sakuras! They were blooming full but guess if my camera's battery decided to die after this point. Uzusumisakuras are really old and beautiful and.. Well maybe I get the photos my HF took so I can so you sometime.

Yeah, randomy thingys so I went to see a movie and also took purikura with these fellas. Today as well had a great time with them! Can you guess what we went to see..?

(Beware more uneccessary stuff coming up:)

Went to buy stuff for school (and an umbrella)

And that is my AFS phone in it's newest form! These dayum cool stickers were found from a Disney store that is just 5 min's away walking. Actually all these stuff are from that huge shopping center. I'd call this some good luck!

I didn't know wheter Natsuko wanted to be on my blog so I didn't want to be rude and had to use my paint skills once more! That kimono though..

And finally a couple of days before schools started Natsuko took me to see Hanami again! It was fun but cold(again) so we weren't there for long. She's from same school as me but in different class. (School post is goun be the next one. I'll tell more then!)

So this was just to sum up some things I have done here but not everything. I hope you understood something and if u didn't just let the photos talk for themselves! Hopefully next time I have some more time. (Answer: we went to see Frozen (surprise surprise) or Ana to yuki no joo o, as it's called here)