youpi!!!

Yep this is it, my visa for Mongolia, just very strange: I have requested a tourist visa, because I can not have a working visa, because the validity of my passport is not long enough and I have to do a new passport in UB and then go to Korea or China to do a new visa and then come back…. I have to breathe!!!
But I have received a working visa, because somebody send a paper at the embassy to request so????
Well well well I don't understand, so on Monday I will see what the immigration office in UB will say… to be continued!!! But I am leaving this Sunday for sure!!!!

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new year's eve tradition again

In Japan there is the tradition that you go to a shrine to have your omikuji.
This is a fortune teller.

So I bought mine...

and seems that this is good! Youpi!!!!

if not you put it like that on a plant or a tree.

and then it will be burned I think.

there is also the wish. So people are queuing to make their wish (I have done it too :-))

In some shrine you have this circle, first you cross from the right and then the left and then you g to do your wish.
This is the way to do the wish:
put money, ring the bell
bow 2 times and clap your hands 2 times
make your wish and bow again, and then wait that your wish comes true!!! (that's the longer part!!!)

and after that some recomfort, macha tea with ginger!!!

Back to Tokyo

and the first thing to do in this case, is to go back to basic,means eating taiyaki, because this is too good!!!

and after eat a big potato with a lot of butter with Sarah!!!
Because we are worth it!!!

and then watch a monkey doing things

I think that one of them was to eat a chewing gum, but I'm not so sure...

and then look at beautiful things at night!

for example my lovely tower!!!!

Japanese traditions

For the new year there are a lot of traditions in Japan!
One of them is to make the new year's calligraphy.
We are listening to the teacher!!!

This was my first time and I really enjoyed it. The student next to me is not sleeping, she is very concentrated!!!!

And this is the result. It means: A lot of luck, and my name on the left!!!

They also have these bamboo's decoration in front of the door

in different style

shape, size and color!!!!

Another one is to have these mocchies (rice cake), you find them everywhere in the supermarket!
They also do some special games, the cards you have seen, and so one and so one!!!!
Not bad :-)