My Last UK Trip Has Began! / Life

I've realised how hard to keep writing blog posts.... It's just more difficult than I imagined.
It's already February! I'm in Nottingham now.

After coming to the UK this time, I just become speechless. Well everything is really confusing and every time I try to write something here, I have to delete them right after.

You might think what you're doing there? That's a question sooooooo many people have asked me. even an immigration officer. The answer is i'm enjoying doing "NOTHING" 
I know you might not be convinced. I'm a super organised person so that if I hear someone saying so, I would be like 'WHAT?' But anyway I'm here in Nottingham doing nothing.
This is because I start working in April so 100% I won't be able to come back to the UK. Since I've been such a world traveller these years, I really don't know whether I can stand up not being able to travel. People around me are so worried about me but anyhow I have to work and live on my own you know?
I just thought it would be nice to have time to think about anything without any pressure before starting work. Well I can do that in Japan but why not in the U.k. observing the different culture?

So I'm in Nottingham thinking about my life. My biggest fear right now is 'what if I can't meet the guy and stay single until I die' following 'what if I can't find anything I really want to do'
Maybe you think it's just too early to think about marriage. Well it's true but as a female, I have to think about my body because I want to have my child. I find this point very unfair to the male but at the same time very fascinating aspect of human birth. Moreover, it takes two to have relationships and get married. Well having no boyfriend for many years panics me. 
No single person will find me attractive and a partner.... No one loves me..... These kind of sad thought occupy me and bring me into a dark circle. Am I the only one who scares these thoughts? 
At the same time, not every marriage is the happy one. I'm not saying the divorce is bad bad bad but I wish I could find someone I respect and spend time together until I die. Maybe that's why it's sooooo difficult  to find the one....
The second fear; what if I can't find anything I really want to
Well it was really hard for me to find a job  since I didn't study so called practical subjects. There are so many jobs out there but I don't know all. What I've decided is doing something which can have a look the business itself and hopefully bump into the one I really want to. Well this sounds not specific enough but I guess my working experience will show me some way to go there.  

I just hope I can give you some sort of comfort for someone who feels a bit lost in their life. 
We can do so many things in our life but the life has the limit.........

Back from the U.K.

Today when I was having a quiet and relaxing evening, I realised my previous post is just strange. I accidentally posted a draft.... I just wanna say 'I'm back!' on this blog so this will be short as well.

Obviously when you're having a good time, time goes by soooooo fast. I can't believe i'm already in Japan. Soooooo sad. It is very sad even though I feel I should be here and I belong there, I can't just simply stay here thanks to the Visa problem. Well technically I can only if I have loads of money haha

Anyway when I had to think about my luggage, I just didn't have any idea why I brought so many things when I went to the U.K.. When I arrived at Heathrow airport, my suitcase was already seriously full.... Last week I bought two pairs of shoes (I'm crazy about shoe and blankets :p) even though I told myself 'Aya stay away from shoe shops!!!' Well it seems as if I've bought way too much things to put inside my suitcase. I had to send a packet back home... hahahaha Well there are so many things I wanted to get from the U.K. so I kinda imagined this would happen. I'll write about what I bought soon on this blog.
Well after an amazing summer holiday, it's time to be back to my real life....
Ganbare Aya chan!!!

Afternoon Tea in the U.K. and Japan

Well I think I did mention I was in the U.K. but I didn't say why I was there properly.
Yeah it doesn't have a big history behind but anyway I was in the U.K. for one year as an exchange student. oh it was the best time in my life.....
Since I'm in Japan now, I miss Europe in general a lot every single day.... I know! I have to stop thinking negative! haha
So there are plenty of stories and thing I'd like to share with you here but I've been really busy and I'm having difficult time to find good photos for this blog. Now I regret a lot that I didn't take a lot of photos during the best time of my life.... :( Let's say I was busy with enjoying it! yes!

One thing I really enjoyed is afternoon tea!!!! If I say this, some people might think 'Oh is that because you are Japanese? Do Japanese people drink tea? No no green tea! Just a tea!' The answer is YES! hahaha We do drink tea. I'd say afternoon tea is not popular.

My first afternoon tea was at Browns.

I was really fascinated by cottage cream. Yummy!!! 

This one was at a posh hotel in London. I can't remember the name. I guess it was the most expensive afternoon tea I've experienced in the U.K.. This was amazing! Sandwiches were all-you-ca-eat. My friend and I got excited and went to the second round. After we finished the afternoon tea, I was really really really full. This is the thing we've got to be careful with afternoon tea. You get unbelievably FULL! To be honest, at that time, I felt a bit ill because I was really full which sounds hilarious, so we went to Hyde Park and I had a nap to digest. haha 

This one was also in London. can't remember the name again. 

This one is at a Marriott hotel in Bristol. To tell you the truth, on that day, my friend and I were suffering hangover. haha We got up and took shower and talking, 'ok you've got to do something! otherwise, we'll end up staying home doing nothing!' So we went out even though the weather was terrible. 

I did afternoon tea a lot when I was in the U.K.. 
It is imaginable I miss a lot about it. So I went out to try aternoon tea in Japan!

This was at Imperial hotel Tokyo. (Updated!) I really like this afternoon tea because they have cold flavored tea as well! You can see them in this pic. The shop is located in the top floor of the hotel so that you can see a nice view of Tokyo. (Personally I don't think Tokyo view is not beautiful just a lot of skyscrapers anyway) The most impressive thing of this afternoon is its service. Once you finish your tea, you don't have to ask for your another tea because a staff notice it just right before you finish yours! This timing is very difficult because if the stuff comes early, the customer feel they have to be hurry so they cannot relax tea time. So I was really surprised their level of service.

This was at Conrad hotel Tokyo on my birthday! My besties took me here :) I love them!

These sweets were cutely assembled and tasted amazing. However, I personally prefer afternoon tea with there floors....?? I don't know the name of the thing for afternoon tea....

I really wanna do afternoon tea outside in a garden one day....

ok I've gotta goooooooooo! bye!