Back in (Tokyo) town

So, this is after a 3-months break that this blog becomes alive again. Meanwhile I`ve travelled to Kiwiland, spent some more time in Australia, did a stopover in Bangkok and then spent a few weeks in Europe, at my mum`s place and spent a few days around New Year`s in Wroclaw, Poland to visit my friends from Fukuoka, Anja and Joanna and also finally had the chance to visit (snowy) Dresden which was just as great as I`d imagined. I had to stay longer in Switzerland than planned, so I had to skip going back by Transsib overland and instead booked a BA flight.
Now I am back in Tokyo and starting to settle in again. I have to say that the first few days here were not too spirited. I was extremely tired and I spent Monday basically sleeping for 24 hours. Even the next days I felt the urge to go to bed at 6pm, which is strange because timewise it`d be much earlier in Europe.
Besides jetlag I was struggling with some other issues. My laptop`s hard disk crashed. It had announced itself earlier, but I hoped the thing would make it another couple of months. I run all the system checks in the backup menu to see what the exact error was. I checked the result on a couple of IT webforums and the unisono answer was that calling DELL support for that kind of error is a waste of money, they can only sell you a new hard disk. Considering that I don`t have the old set-up CDs anymore and would need both a new Office Package and the hard disk, this would be expensive. So I decided to buy a new webbook instead. It was annoying anyway, except for expensive internet cafes I was cut off for a few days and had one more headache...
I stayed in Yoyogi youth hostel for a few nights. It`s pretty decent considering that you get a single room for the usual price of a dorm. But the room was super small and with all that luggage I brought it was claustrophobic. I checked Sakura House again, the agency that I rented from last time. I finally found something with another, smaller agency that does not so much cater to foreigners and you therefore get larger rooms for less.
The last thing I was still annoyed about was the fact that I haven`t managed to get the trainee visa. I had a marketing internship lined up before I came, but the company told me I had to organize the visa on my own. It`s a bit strange, because generally the company that hires you needs to sponsor your visa and apply for the documents in Japan. It was a German company and they obviously know how to get visa for Germans, but the situation seems to be a little different and also this visa type is generally only for students and fresh graduates. Now I was told that since I didn`t manage to get the visa (which isn`t surprising if you lack the necessary documents), they will look for someone else for this particular position. But they encouraged me to keep on trying to get the visa and then they`d hire me for another internship position. We will see, but I don`t see a good chance to get the visa after what I`ve heard at the Japanese embassy in Berne, unless I`d enrol as a student somewhere. But first of all it`s mid-semester, so no chance to enrol now and I would also have to pay the semester fee right away, so that is no option. I will keep on looking for a job of course.
Anyway, apart from all the above trouble I am now in my new place and ready to start my life in Tokyo again.