Tickets booked! :D

Yay, finally I booked my ticket to Japan!

I'll be there from August 9th to September 18th. :D

It'll be the longest vacation in Japan I've had. Hopefully they'll keep getting longer and longer until one day I'm actually living there. ;) Haha!

First I'm going to Osaka for a couple of weeks.

I'm gonna buy a cute yukata and celebrate obon with my friend. Finally I can go to a matsuri! 

Can't wait!!

And maybe after that I'll go to Okinawa for a few days. I really want to go there so I hope that won't be too expensive.

After that I might go couchsurfing in Tochigi. I love the countryside and I know a great place in the middle of nowhere where I can couchsurf. While I'm there I'll go to Nikko.

Then I'm going to Tokyo for the rest of my trip to hang out with my friends. <3

And shop! XD

Oooooh I'm so exited! lol

Sweden <3 Japan = true

I was watching this awesome okinawan enka song.  Then it struck me that the rythem and sound of the strings sounded very similar to a type of swedish folk musik. "Gånglåt" I thought.

So I searched youtube for "gånglåt" to compare. And what do I find?!

This!! :D

And japanese ppl dancing swedish folkdance. Wearing traditional clothes and everything! lol

I was very surprised. And I guess it strengthened my theory that maybe our traditional music is not so different!

And it made me wanna dance folkdance again. I used to do it when I was a kid. It's fun!

Also I used to play that song on the violin. "Gånglåt från Äppelbo"

But this next song is more what I was thinking about when I heared the enka song.

Anyway.

I feel awesome. lol

Good night!