IKEA Japan

To Swedes living abroad, IKEA is where you go when you want Swedish food, candy and (in rare cases) furniture.

The weird thing is that I've only been back in Japan for a little more than a week and I have already paid a visit to the Tokyo store. It's strange because I just spent 6 whole weeks enjoying Sweden and I shouldn't need this yet. Am I perhaps a little homesick? Hmm...

Meatballs (Swedish?), potato chips, and marshmallow cars (Ahlgrens bilar).

We spent almost 2 hours looking at how we could furnish our apartment (if we stayed at the same place for more than 12 months). And we found the best thing IKEA has to offer just at the end, in the food store close to the exit. Swedish "Wästgöta kloster" cheese! We used to eat this all the time when Natsuko was an exchange student at KTH.

Natsuko's reaction when finding this golden treasure.

Someone has told me that one slice of cheese contains the same amount of fat as 2 pork chops... So these days I'm having the equivalent of 4 steaks, every morning. Yum yum!

Ok, that's it.
Take care!

Bye bye Sweden

These last 6 weeks were great, I've had the chance to see so many people and the summer in Stockholm has been wonderful. Thank you all for meeting up! It really means a lot to me.


I'm going home/back to Tokyo tomorrow morning. This was the last trip before my Japanese scholarship ends, which means I won't be back here until April next year.

The plan after that is to stay in Sweden for a year, finish my PhD, and then return to Japan in April 2011 for work. Not sure about what kind of job that would be or for how long... Oh well. Any ideas/comments/bashes are more than welcome!

Ok, that's it.
Take care!