2011

2011

I just came home and without even being sleepy at all I sit here in my small apartment at 6 am. The year 2011 is 6 hours old, the year 2010 died 6 hours ago.What I took with me from the old year are broken bones and some stories about broken hearts, broken promises, broken rules and broken borders. 2010 did just as many good things to me as it did bad things. It seems unreal, but the first sunrise of the new year proof enough that it's ok to forget about what happened yesterday and the 365 days before.

What I will miss most about 2010 are it's memories. Sometimes I just move to fast, being somewhat reckless with beautiful moments and just as I realize it, they are already forgotten and I regret not to have saved them in the huge database brain. So now, 6:30 am, Jens Lekman purring love songs into the earliest hours of the 1st of January, I try hard to recall the most memorable moments of each month in 2010.

January: We all woke up at my friends apartment in Shimotakaido excactly one year ago on 01/01. We took a long long walk to a temple in Medaimae, just to see 10000 people standing in line and going back home for Nabe-Lunch.

February: My calendar says that on 02/25 I had my first ice cream of 2010. I guess that was the happiest moment of February.

March: empty.

April: 04/02, the last Teenage Kicks. After that Tokyo Parties just became boring and shallow.

May: 05/14, I went to see the XX with my best friend in Daikanyama. Two hours before the concert started we sat down by the riverside in Nakameguro had sparkling wine and champagne ice cream. Even though it was raining a little bit we sat there until 5 minutes before the concert started. It was one of the most beautiful days of the year. After the concert we stole a pig, ran to Ebisu, I went to see some friends in some Boobs-Bar in Shinjuku and with the last train I went back to my friends place and we made the covers for my friend Risas first Mix CD and I named it: Feed my poison.

June: 06/05, BIG BEACH FESTIVAL 2010. Nothing more to say. The best day of the year.

July: 07/09, my mom arrived in Japan and stayed a whole month. My favorite time of the year.

August: My mom left and a few days later my friend Tommy came to visit from Germany and stayed for ONE MONTH.

September: My birthday on 09/08 was Dooms day, but on 13/09 we all went to my friend Mari's bar in Takadanobaba and had a terrific birthday party.

October: There wasn't anything really good in October. I handed in my application for Bunka Fashion College and started becoming an sad, bitter and bored something. Summer was over and no one in sight to keep my bed warm during the cold season.

November: 11/13, dooms day 2010 pt. 2. I had my entrance exam for Bunka. I think I peed my pants that day. But the announced the results on the 24th and everything turned out well. hey, I'm in.

December: One of the saddest months of 2010. I wanted to go home to Germany so badly, but I couldn't, which really made me start to hate Tokyo. But at the end of 2010 I started to take heart from my life again.

So here I am now, 2011/01/01, 7 am and I wonder who would like to spend the day with me today. And I wonder what the day will bring.

Hello 2011.

The last sunset of 2010.

Katie